Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Random notes - Value of values

My random notes from a recent meditation session run by Stephen Taylor (may my blog make you famous) go as follows:
What is your passion?
What light your heart?
Most of us are a living a lie
Help yourself to become free
Follow your bliss
Passion vs addiction
What is worth doing?
Here's a good one: AS WE RELAX THE GEM STARTS TO GLOW (why is relaxing so hard?)
Looking can get in the way
Cleanliness - means not just washing on the outside but also on the inside, and not just metaphysically but physiologically (great big words) - detoxing makes you more sensitive (found this with salt) and can also mean dropping judgements (one for me to work on)
Meditation = dropping, relaxation, quietness, naturalness and more
Pathway to self knowledge - be aware of the pattern but cast aside all else (garbage)

And finally, the 'value of values' - here they are, all 20 of them from the text of Srimad Bhagwad Geetha (courtesy of Krishna Prasad):
1. Amanitvam
2.Adambhitvam
3.Ahimsa
4.Ksanti
4.Arjavam
5.Acharyopasanm.
6.Saucham
7.Sthairyam
8.Atmavinigraha
9.Indriyartheshu Vairagyam
10. Anahankara
11.Janmamrtyujaravyadhiduhkhadosanudarsanam
12.Asakthi
13.Anabhisvangah Putradaragrahadisu
14.Nityam Samachittatvam Istanistopapattishu
15.Mayi Cha Ananyayogena Bhaktih Avyabhicarini
16.Vivikthadesasevitvam
17.Artih Janasamsadi
18.Tattvajnanarthadarsanam
19.Adhyatmajnananityatvam
20.Jnanam
As I get wiser I may say more about these - referring to my notes of course!

Being active

By active in this case I mean politically. Never has there been a better time in Australia to become involved in politics. It is even interesting enough to talk about socially! Now that we have a system which is not so blatantly lighter grey and darker grey (Labor and Liberals) but has green (The Greens), and shades of black and white (the Independents) we can all say hurray!

It may not work so well in practice but at least the debate will come back into the ring. More opinions will be heard and hopefully stuffy pollies will not assume to know (as Howard always kept saying and sadly, I think, occasionally Rudd) 'what the people want'. No assumptions please. We are all individuals, or independents, and as our independent MPs have shown, we can therefore be moved in mysterious ways.

So the Aussie Federal Election left me exhausted and in a heap once it was finally over. The lapse of time when we didn't know the outcome was a slide into emptiness brought on by an unfamiliar involvement in the affairs of the world (Australia). It was a very personal feeling for me, like what I felt when I graduated and there was a bit of a hole in my life. Then we found out the result, and I felt as elated as the day I graduated. Oh may politics always feel this personal!