As we had a packed house in the seminar this Saturday.
The crux: For every body who allows himself (or herself) to become a victim, there will be one bully. The way to handle a bully is to learn to NOT join his or her dance.
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Transcend action addiction
As originally published in India’s premiere spiritual magazine ‘Life Positive’ (May 2016 Issue)
Are you a jack in the box, who jumps up to act at the drop of a hat? Compulsive action may not be the virtue it is considered to be.
In spirituality, we have a term, karma, and by extension we have another term – karma bandhana. Mostly, we interpret karma to mean a deed, a deed that is bound to the law of cause and effect. Bandhana means bondage. So karma bandhana implies being bound to the consequences of one’s deeds, negative as well as positive.
However, another meaning of karma is to act. In this context karma bandhana would imply bondage to action.
Spirituality is not Self-Improvement
Of late, there is a rush of self-improvement movements calling themselves as spiritual movements. These movements focus on values like Non-violence, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Focus, Contentment, Detachment, Self-restraint, Silence, Love etc calling them as spiritual values. I myself teach most of them believing that I am teaching hardcore spirituality. But I have lately been wondering if it’s true.
To me, a spiritual value is something that by itself can cause self-realization or enlightenment without the assistance of any other value.