If you are feeling a touch depleted, down in the dumps or stressed at the moment, try taking a few leaves out of this book…..ooops sorry video!. It’s only two and half minutes long, but it is packed with charm and a fair bit of wisdom to boot.
Some nourishment for the heart on a Sunday evening!
And remember,
Don’t just watch the damn thing, but see if you can practice some of the suggestions and integrate them into your forthcoming week.
Video from KarmaTube
Aaaaah – very wise and beautiful indeed :-) Thank you for supporting our practice with this. And thank you also for the intro to Dharma comics – I’m now subscribed to both and I’m sure the world is changing as a result.
I know I’ve mentioned it before, but for me, one of the key messages in the Dharma Comics video is ‘honour where you are’. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that ‘be the change’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘be the change right now or else just forget it and butt out’. Being OK with not (quite) being (quite) the change we want to be is very important I think. It’s been vital for me to notice when ‘not-wanting’ arises in response to the sudden appearance of aspects of myself that aren’t ‘the change’. I think it was in one of your drop-ins that this aspect of ‘not-wanting’ really became clear.. so, thank you, again!! I’ll certainly keep practising/ integrating the damn thing every day, because doing so really does seem to be creating change (‘Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change’ Dr. Wayne Dyer).
‘Be the Change’ is an interesting choice of words from Karmatube (not dharma comics on this occasion) as it is faintly prescriptive and prone to absolutism; in the sense that you either are the change or you are not; failing to pass muster as it were. So I agree with you Melissa, far better as you suggest with being OK with not (quite) being (quite) the change we want to be
When we reflect of course we are the change that we are whether we like it or not! That curious experience of being in a place where we feel stuck in our lives, of perhaps wanting to be somewhere else, somewhere better, is the sort of painful self created psychological artifice that meditation practice seeks to ameliorate. We practice trying to see clearly.