Wednesday, June 07, 2006
And The Rain It Raineth Everyday...
...or so it seems...another moist and drenchy day ...cooling, calming in a certain way...I like it! Especially since i do not have to go out into it!
I am being blessed with time to really meditate and relax this week...for this I am grateful....as much as I appreciate and admire all my wonderful commercial agents (and they are the best in town, Access Talent and Abrams Artists (no question), I am equally glad they seem to have little to call me about this week...I am taking advantage of this "down time" to rest and read and meditate and read some more...I know how busy it all can become, and how crunched it will be starting nest week....so I am glad for this breather...
Very,very glad.
Love your enemy, don't bomb them....I am learning that a Bodhisattva has no enemy...the only thing to hate is hatred itself...forgive instead..."red light yoga": stop, meditate, then act...practise tolerance...this is the hard work of it, but it can be done...there is heat in hatred, so it's a matter of learning how to release the heat in ways that celebrate not harm...
Our President Bush is celebratng the fact that one of our strategic bombings in Iraq finally killed a major terrorist...Alzaqowi, or something like that...perfect political timing, as this president is most unpopular right now...but to celebrate the death of another human being now seems very sad to me...we are a nation of bloodthirsty sad people, if we must get joy out of killing anyone , even if we feel the killing is "right"...the sad sad lessons of karma and retribution are not only unheeded here, but they are virtually unknown in any way, so people operate as if there are no consequences to their actions...as if death is some sort of punishment to the other...when we kill, the consequences come back to us and harm us...and sadly, the history of mankind is mainly that of who kills whom....
Why give our enemies the satisfaction of our fury? Why do we insist on being defined by that? What an amazing thing it is that we have the option NOT to go down that road....we can choose other than tormenting our minds that way. We must remember instead what is really important. When we are enraged we have only tunnel vision, seeing only narrowly....the same as with attachment. Meditate on how to get with and through the anger so you can reach compassion and lovingkindness. One MUST cultivate compassion for the person that is so hateful...feel sorry for them. A compassionate way is not a painless way, but it is the right way. MINDFULNESS takes apart the chord of rage and finds the separate notes...it is never just one note..pay attention to the details...hate what they do , not who they are...
Gandhi said that the key to non-violent demonstration is satriyagaha, translated as the truth of what's right. The key is not to hate the other but to confront them with compassionate questions...It's vital to learn to be present with even the worst stuff...not to call it "the enemy".
I have so much to learn, and I have to be patient with myself because now seems to be my time to learn it.
I am being blessed with time to really meditate and relax this week...for this I am grateful....as much as I appreciate and admire all my wonderful commercial agents (and they are the best in town, Access Talent and Abrams Artists (no question), I am equally glad they seem to have little to call me about this week...I am taking advantage of this "down time" to rest and read and meditate and read some more...I know how busy it all can become, and how crunched it will be starting nest week....so I am glad for this breather...
Very,very glad.
Love your enemy, don't bomb them....I am learning that a Bodhisattva has no enemy...the only thing to hate is hatred itself...forgive instead..."red light yoga": stop, meditate, then act...practise tolerance...this is the hard work of it, but it can be done...there is heat in hatred, so it's a matter of learning how to release the heat in ways that celebrate not harm...
Our President Bush is celebratng the fact that one of our strategic bombings in Iraq finally killed a major terrorist...Alzaqowi, or something like that...perfect political timing, as this president is most unpopular right now...but to celebrate the death of another human being now seems very sad to me...we are a nation of bloodthirsty sad people, if we must get joy out of killing anyone , even if we feel the killing is "right"...the sad sad lessons of karma and retribution are not only unheeded here, but they are virtually unknown in any way, so people operate as if there are no consequences to their actions...as if death is some sort of punishment to the other...when we kill, the consequences come back to us and harm us...and sadly, the history of mankind is mainly that of who kills whom....
Why give our enemies the satisfaction of our fury? Why do we insist on being defined by that? What an amazing thing it is that we have the option NOT to go down that road....we can choose other than tormenting our minds that way. We must remember instead what is really important. When we are enraged we have only tunnel vision, seeing only narrowly....the same as with attachment. Meditate on how to get with and through the anger so you can reach compassion and lovingkindness. One MUST cultivate compassion for the person that is so hateful...feel sorry for them. A compassionate way is not a painless way, but it is the right way. MINDFULNESS takes apart the chord of rage and finds the separate notes...it is never just one note..pay attention to the details...hate what they do , not who they are...
Gandhi said that the key to non-violent demonstration is satriyagaha, translated as the truth of what's right. The key is not to hate the other but to confront them with compassionate questions...It's vital to learn to be present with even the worst stuff...not to call it "the enemy".
I have so much to learn, and I have to be patient with myself because now seems to be my time to learn it.
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