May 03
Friday
Northeastern StatesSunday afternoons talking about Enlightened Society
Post a Comment May 3, 2013 ? 4:32 pm | Permalink |It all comes down to arranging radishes, really. There have now been five gatherings in our center parlor, five unstructured Sunday afternoons, discussing Enlightened Society. As the open invitation says ?What is it? Is it possible? Who cares?? Each time we meet there are some of the same people, and some different people, sometimes five people, sometimes 10. The discussion evolves freely, from personal stories to workplace and social situations. Some of us are Shambhalians, some have received the lung ? the Enlightened Society Treatise ? some are going to, some not.
And the radishes? A local farmer, just getting into his hectic Spring season, told us about a helper who insisted on arranging radishes to his own ideas instead of following instructions. The helper?s been instructed maybe seven times on how the farmer wants these done. So now what? Like the song ?50 Ways to Leave Your Lover? there are probably 50 ways to deal with the radish situation. Each will have some result and some residual emotional fallout over time for both farmer and helper! Society in a microcosm.
Everyone who comes either already knows how to listen, or soon picks up that it?s an important part of the gathering. Like songbirds, we each have our own refrain, buried in the general discussion. When you listen you hear again and again from one person the underlying song of how to belong, from another, how to be patient. From another how to have wisdom, another how to be brave. It feels like we are working on a jigsaw puzzle, helping each other put in the pieces. The picture we?re making is of Enlightened Society. And it looks a lot like radishes.
From: White River News Magazine
Source: http://shambhalatimes.org/2013/05/03/sunday-afternoons-talking-about-enlightened-society/
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