From Me To We: True Love Is A Process Of Humility
“मैं से हम तक: सच्चा प्रेम विनम्र होने की एक प्रक्रिया है”
-थिच नहत हान के द्वारा.
आध्यात्मिक पथ पर एक साथ चलने वाले लोगों के समुदाय में बहुत शक्ति होती है; इसके सदस्य एक-दूसरे की रक्षा करने, अभ्यास के हर पहलू में एक-दूसरे की मदद करने और समुदाय की ताकत का निर्माण करने में सक्षम होते हैं। ऐसी कई चीजें हैं जो हमारे लिए अपने दम पर करना बहुत मुश्किल है, लेकिन जब हम समुदाय के रूप में एक साथ रहते हैं, तो वे आसान और स्वाभाविक हो जाती हैं। हम उन्हें बिना थके या बिना किसी कठोर प्रयास के करते हैं।समुदाय में एक सामूहिक ऊर्जा होती है।इस ऊर्जा के बिना,व्यक्तिगत परिवर्तन का अभ्यास आसान नहीं है।
हम समुदाय में एक साथ रहते हैं, तो यह एक शरीर बन जाता है, और हम में से प्रत्येक उस शरीर में एक कोशिका (cell) है। यदि हम सामुदायिक शरीर का हिस्सा नहीं हैं, तो हम अलग-थलग, भूखे और जरूरतमंद होंगे, और हमारे पास साधना के लिए उपयुक्त माहौल नहीं होगा। हम सामुदायिक शरीर को एक जंगल के रूप में देख सकते हैं। समुदाय का प्रत्येक सदस्य दूसरों के साथ खूबसूरती से खड़ा एक पेड़ है।प्रत्येक पेड़ का अपना आकार, ऊंचाई और अद्वितीय गुण हैं, लेकिन सभी जंगल के लयबद्ध सुसंगत विकास में योगदान दे रहे हैं। इस तरह एक-दूसरे के साथ स्थिर रूप से खड़े पेड़ों को देखकर,आप एक पवित्र जंगल की सुंदरता, दृढ़ता और शक्ति को महसूस कर सकते हैं।
हमारा सामुदायिक शरीर साधना के पथ पर अग्रसर होता है ,एवं उसकी आँखें हमें दिशा प्रदान करती हैं।समुदाय की जो आँखें हैं,वो समुदाय के प्रत्येक सदस्य के सदगुण एवं अवगुण देख पाती हैं। सामुदायिक दृष्टि का अर्थ है, सामुदायिक शरीर की अंतर्दृष्टि एवं दूरदर्शिता,जिसमे वृद्ध से ले कर युवाओं तक सभी की दूरदर्शिता एवं अंतर्दृष्टि शामिल है| हालाँकि सभी सदस्यों की अंतर्दृष्टि का योगदान, समुदाय की अंतर्दृष्टि स्पष्ट करने के लिए जरूरी है,पर ये एक अंतर्दृष्टियों का साधारण सा जोड़ नहीं है | सामुदायिक अंतर्दृष्टि में एक मजबूती है,एक प्रज्ञा है ,एक अपने आप की शक्ति है,जो सभी की व्यक्तिगत अंतर्दृष्टि से कहीं आगे निकल जाती है
सामुदायिक शरीर की ऊर्जा हमारी रक्षा करने की और हमे परिवर्तित करने की क्षमता रखती है। समुदाय के सदस्य के रूप में, हमें बस उस ऊर्जा में अपना योगदान देना है। इसे समुदाय का निर्माण कहा जाता है। यह सबसे मूल्यवान कार्य है जो एक भिक्षु, भिक्षुणी या सामान्य व्यक्ति कर सकता है।
प्रतिभाव के लिए मूल प्रश्न: आप इस धारणा से कैसे संबंधित हैं कि समुदाय का निर्माण सबसे मूल्यवान कार्य है जो एक साधु, भिक्षुणी या सामान्य व्यक्ति कर सकता है? क्या आप उस समय की कोई व्यक्तिगत कहानी साझा कर सकते हैं जब आप समुदाय के सामूहिक शरीर की अंतर्दृष्टि और दृष्टि की सराहना करने में सक्षम थे? आपको यह जागरूकता बढ़ाने में क्या मदद मिलती है कि आप सामुदायिक शरीर में एक कोशिका (cell) हैं?
In Joyfully Together: The Art of Building a Harmonious Community.
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion that community building is the most precious work a monk, nun or layperson can do? Can you share a personal story of a time you were able to appreciate the insight and vision of the collective body of the community? What helps you build awareness that you are a cell in the community body?
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15 Past Reflections
On May 1, 2024 Hannah wrote :
Paradoxically, it took the pandemic to experience - via Zoom - the sense of community that I had been longing for my whole life. The field that community, even if not physically present, is so powerful!
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On May 1, 2024 Debra wrote :
As I read about the recent post regarding "community," foremost in my mind was how "community" somehow can mean "cult." I am not a cult member. Am a free person. I like the idea of community, but I'm not one of those people who defines myself as a member of a community. I keep thinking about "cults," and how the idea of community can apply to cults, harmful cults, people who brainwash their members into believing in ideas that isolate them from the rest of the communities around them. So, my question is: where does one draw the line when it comes to communities?
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On Apr 30, 2024 Barbara Schwartzbach wrote :
Community building begins at the bottom. Planting seeds of Love for growth.
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On Apr 30, 2024 Patrick wrote :
The older I get, and more humiliatingly frail, the more open I seem to be toward others no matter how different or comfortable they tend to make me?! Oh not the dark, evil ones, but the quirky, lovable in spite of themselves ones…like me in that regard I hope. }:- a.m. anonemoose monk
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On Apr 30, 2024 Anil Pandit wrote :
Thanks ... Great merging of a drop in ocean, to feel and derive its energy !!
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On Apr 30, 2024 Pankaj wrote :
I was once blessed to be the leader of an engineering team at a robotics company where we had to invent things that simply did not exist. And getting a couple of PhD candidates from the best robotics institute along with a mechanical engineer who liked to tinker with things that move, a scientist from SRI who had dedicated his life to geometric challenges for moving robots, a field expert in computer vision, and a couple of breadth-oriented engineers got together to tackle coming up with an accurate distance sensor that ended up costing about 1% of what was available in the market. The first couple of months were really hard because each person in the team was a rock star in their own expertise, and creating an environment where every one was heard and constructively challenged took a bit of time. But once there was a mutual respect for the unique perspective that each person (cell/tree) possessed, the collective energy truly manifested wisdom beyond that of any of us!
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On Apr 26, 2024 stream wrote :
Hmm- Well, I am not a monk or nun, so I guess my perspective is as a lay person. My current personal mission statement is: " I co-create a community that is safe, sustainable, growthful, and joyous by being honest and following my bliss". So, I lead Dances of Universal Peace, am cochairperson for our Interfaith Roundtable group, sing in Sacred Earth Choir, and offer services like free physical therapy, moving assistance, and other social work in our community. I do my best while also taking care of my personal needs. I love the extended family I am part of most of the time. There are big challenges when people do things that I find to be incomprehensibly wrong, mean. So , I am learning to keep going while forgiving others and myself. I use a mantra- MORE ME, That's NOT MINE- so, yes I am a cell and I do my part for the whole being even when the health of the larger being looks dubious-
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On Apr 25, 2024 stan wrote :
Humity...An awareness and appreciation... of...
... the others value
... the others value
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On Apr 25, 2024 K Madhuri wrote :
Community to me means coming in unity. But it's not an easy thing to build or keep a community together or even be a dedicated member of the community. I have seen a mentor build a community of empaths from scratch. I have seen it grow and then I have seen it grow week because of the diminishing energy contributions. I also saw how that energy lives in each member and seeks to be nourished and wants to flourish into that collective force that can wrap each and all of us in its care .
To be in a community is drawing so much and giving a bit and enabling the flow of life energy and I notice my identity and entity being formed by and also contributing to the form of the community.
To be in a community is drawing so much and giving a bit and enabling the flow of life energy and I notice my identity and entity being formed by and also contributing to the form of the community.
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On Apr 25, 2024 Jagdish P Dave wrote :
I love and appreciate the work of building spiritual communities or communes by the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. We are social beings and we need to build spiritual communities not only for our surviaval but also for the enhancement of the members of our community. This is everbody's calling. Spiriutal leaders, monks and nuns play a significant role in creating and sustaining spiritual communities. However, lay persons like me and you have a responsibilty to create and suatain spiritual communities. Survival and enhancement of our precious life is up to all of us. We all need to join our hands together to protect and enhace the wellness of each member of our community, not only for a special group of people. It is a call for inclusion, not exclusion. I deeply appreciate the contribution of the Dalai Lama , Thich Nhat Hanh and other spiritual leaders for creating harmony and peace in the world which is dangerously divided. What is my part as a lay person in creating such a community... [View Full Comment]
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On Apr 25, 2024 David Doane wrote :
I agree, but the community building is not by intention, and it is important that it not be. Having belonged to what I have called a cuddle group that has provided me support, challenge, critique, patience, love, guidance over many years, we became a community, and it is precious to me, a treasure. I have grown in ways that would have been very difficult without the group. There was a time when I experienced the community as good for me to be very open, and me opening increased my appreciation of the insight and vision of the collective body of community, and of course increased what I got from it. My overall waking up, increased consciousness, and growth helps me grow in awareness that I am a cell in each bigger community body.