Thank you for holding this deeply valuable inquiry. I write as a UK woman with family in Belarus. The country has been deleted along with Russia and people are oblivious. They had the nerve to continue their cooperative and diplomatic relationship with their neighbouring country. Sports people prevented from competing in events and singers barred from Eurovision even as Israel is welcomed.
I make it my business to remain grounded in the reality of our meta crisis and see the truth of the situations from a place of steady loving intention. Mass formation and truth are enemies of one another and compassion is the antidote to the fear. We can have awareness enough to look further in geopolitics or any other type of conflict and do so with an open heart and mind. Then we can truly see each other as the human beings we all are. This is how we make a difference. Namaste 🙏
I find this very difficult. You may be a good meditation teacher and grounded in being but as we all know, this doesn't _automatically_ say much about the validity of your political positions. (A famous example was reknowned Zen master Yasutani Roshi who advocated Japan's militant nationalism.)
I think in this dialogue, you mix the clarity of love and being with a particular political position that happens to be close to Putin's propaganda - along the lines of: all western media are repeating the lies of America's militant expansion plans, and NATO expanded towards Russia so poor Russia HAD to invade Ukraine. (The fact is that the newer NATO countries ASKED to become NATO members because they were afraid of Russia's imperialism, with very good reason as we see now - Sweden being the latest example. NATO in no way forced Sweden to join NATO.)
Of course, anyone can have different positions about these topics but you misused your authority here, mixing a valuable spiritual perspective with a very biased political perspective. Not good.
Michael I respectfully disagree and would encourage you to watch or read about the background up to present from Jeffrey Sachs (who can explain his own relevance and proximity to the events) and to maintain an open heart and mind. I can provide links if that's helpful.
Thank you for holding this deeply valuable inquiry. I write as a UK woman with family in Belarus. The country has been deleted along with Russia and people are oblivious. They had the nerve to continue their cooperative and diplomatic relationship with their neighbouring country. Sports people prevented from competing in events and singers barred from Eurovision even as Israel is welcomed.
I make it my business to remain grounded in the reality of our meta crisis and see the truth of the situations from a place of steady loving intention. Mass formation and truth are enemies of one another and compassion is the antidote to the fear. We can have awareness enough to look further in geopolitics or any other type of conflict and do so with an open heart and mind. Then we can truly see each other as the human beings we all are. This is how we make a difference. Namaste 🙏
I find this very difficult. You may be a good meditation teacher and grounded in being but as we all know, this doesn't _automatically_ say much about the validity of your political positions. (A famous example was reknowned Zen master Yasutani Roshi who advocated Japan's militant nationalism.)
I think in this dialogue, you mix the clarity of love and being with a particular political position that happens to be close to Putin's propaganda - along the lines of: all western media are repeating the lies of America's militant expansion plans, and NATO expanded towards Russia so poor Russia HAD to invade Ukraine. (The fact is that the newer NATO countries ASKED to become NATO members because they were afraid of Russia's imperialism, with very good reason as we see now - Sweden being the latest example. NATO in no way forced Sweden to join NATO.)
Of course, anyone can have different positions about these topics but you misused your authority here, mixing a valuable spiritual perspective with a very biased political perspective. Not good.
Michael I respectfully disagree and would encourage you to watch or read about the background up to present from Jeffrey Sachs (who can explain his own relevance and proximity to the events) and to maintain an open heart and mind. I can provide links if that's helpful.