Vimala Thakar was an Indian spiritual teacher who was deeply influenced by the teachings of Gandhi and Krishnamurti. Her life embodied the essence of enlightened consciousness and social responsibility, combining two seemingly divergent streams into one whole life.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion that your inner or psychological life is a social issue? Can you share a personal experience of a time you experienced the deep interconnection between your psychological and your social life? How can we develop awareness of how interconnected our minds truly are?
True....the gradual realization that what I consider my 'unique' experience is actually felt by everyone in different nuances and shades....and this is a shared journey of Humanity itself :)
Yes! For some time now I've felt that practicing meditation is not at all for individual growth but a human responsibility, mental hygeine.
I know that there is one place where my privacy exists and that is in the place where I am free of the thinking mind. It is also a place where I am more at one than any other place. How ironic: the true solitude of my own quiet mind at once connects me to my true individuality and also my connectedness. True privacy is the experience of oneness I have that is completely unique to me.
Unfortunately privacy in the relative world most certainly does exist: people plan horrific schemes and carry them out..in the privacy of their own minds. So I do think we need to stay grounded about the conversation.
Well said. Thoughts are forces and the analogy I have used for my children growing up is that these thoughts appear in space just like a cartoonist visually shows the words the character is speaking. All the thoughts have created a very dense space that many of us have been led to spiritually /energetically transform and clear the air waves, so to speak. The environmental movement is a physical manifestation of what we feel in this human "mind" consciousness. Notice what you feel in different citiesversus being in Nature, the beauty that was Divinely created in good thought The density of energy will disappear as the vibration of joy and love and service to each other will transform the old negative thoughts discarded by the millions of unawakened minds just passing on generational habitual thought of opinions. It is the journey to mastering each of our so called "minds" that this gift of "life" is revealed in public
With the belief that we are all one, comes my personal responsibility to keep my thoughts, speech and actions clean and in alignment with their highest purpose. As in this beautiful passage, when I reflect on the impact my well-being has on the rest of humanity, I am so inspired to press on and elevate my inner work. With my thanks and love. Liz