The title grabbed me on this read and caught my imagination with all the difficulties that we are experiencing in the world and especially in the US right now from the effects and deaths of COVID, to unemployment, the racial divide and crimes, to fires, and hurricanes and the effects of all of these things on the citizenry, on the attitudes and outlooks of my fellow citizens...
But the writing feels like it is an excerpt of a larger piece... like some things are missing... more info on the passing of her teacher maybe...
I felt let down by the content...
Still the title and what that meant to me is perhaps enough for me... the glory and terror of 'it' is real these days for sure, wherever we find ourselves. There is that yin and yang in everything, and our response to 'it' (thoughts, feelings, actions, interactions) does have a far-reaching impact for sure, I feel that personally residing in China going on 5-years now and especially during the outbreak of the virus and the global pandemic.
Many years ago I learned the word equanimous while learning meditation on Wednesday Nights and attending a silent mediation retreat. I still grapple with that process, every day really. it is difficult at this time of difficulty to accept and be equanimous with things, it is also difficult sometimes to find the positive and goodness in the moment when you're standing in the middle of really difficult circumstances.
For me, the key has been 'service', the doing and being for others. This in itself helps me to put someone else and their needs and the effect of what I do at the forefront of my thoughts and actions. Also choosing the company I keep and that means being with, chatting with people that in the midst of difficulties in their life still find goodness and have gratitude for many things! Also reading and writing about goodness and there are many sources for this like the Karuna publication of good news.
With the title of this reflection in mind the Glory and Terror of It, I can definitely relate to it... I suspect most of us can.
On Aug 27, 2020 Susan wrote :
But the writing feels like it is an excerpt of a larger piece... like some things are missing... more info on the passing of her teacher maybe...
I felt let down by the content...
Still the title and what that meant to me is perhaps enough for me... the glory and terror of 'it' is real these days for sure, wherever we find ourselves. There is that yin and yang in everything, and our response to 'it' (thoughts, feelings, actions, interactions) does have a far-reaching impact for sure, I feel that personally residing in China going on 5-years now and especially during the outbreak of the virus and the global pandemic.
Many years ago I learned the word equanimous while learning meditation on Wednesday Nights and attending a silent mediation retreat. I still grapple with that process, every day really. it is difficult at this time of difficulty to accept and be equanimous with things, it is also difficult sometimes to find the positive and goodness in the moment when you're standing in the middle of really difficult circumstances.
For me, the key has been 'service', the doing and being for others. This in itself helps me to put someone else and their needs and the effect of what I do at the forefront of my thoughts and actions. Also choosing the company I keep and that means being with, chatting with people that in the midst of difficulties in their life still find goodness and have gratitude for many things! Also reading and writing about goodness and there are many sources for this like the Karuna publication of good news.
With the title of this reflection in mind the Glory and Terror of It, I can definitely relate to it... I suspect most of us can.