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Hey Light! I always appreciate your thought provoking and perspective challenging teachings. But this one lands a bit differently. Particularly since you started off, not with people who are just annoying, frustrating, and can be occasional jerks. But with people who are actively and aggressively doing harm to many others. Not just being a dick, but doing a lot of harm to many. Yes, we can appreciate the better qualities of Elon Musk that you mentioned, but they do not negate or do anything to overcome the vast harm he is inflicting on so many. Am I imperfect and annoying sometimes? Of course. Am I mean to others? Engage in gossip? Less so as I get older, but for sure I've had my transgressions in the past. Was I actively and aggressively trying to ruin peoples' lives with hate speech, taking away liberties, causing financial ruin, deportation, etc... for my own benefit or for any other reason? Hell no! I always try to recognize that folks that do harm must have had some terrible role models or must have been mistreated in some way to become how they are and do the things that they do to others. But that is not an excuse for being destructive and harmful to others. I often send loving kindness prayers their way and imagine them blanketed in love that they may never have experienced. I know that putting love into the ether, rather than hate, is better for everyone, including myself and those who are acting so destructively. But at the same time, I do feel outrage and disgust for what is happening at the hands of these "leaders" and celebrities, as well as anyone else who engages in violence, destruction, and devastation toward other living beings or to Mother Earth. I don't think it's all the same. I don't think that your annoying co-worker or your sibling or parent who just loves to push all your buttons can be put in the same "bad" bucket as people who colonize, enslave, disenfranchise, deport, spread hate, rape and sexually assault, fire w/o due cause, etc... I don't believe they are the same. I will still send the lovingkindness, while also not excusing the despicable behavior. And yeah, your point of would I be or do the same if I had been brought up in similar circumstances? I think about that a lot. I often wonder what I would or would not stand for, had I been brought up by white supremacists, particularly in the south of the past, during slavery and/or Jim Crow. We recently watched the PBS documentary about the Wilmington coup of 1898. The whole time, as I was so disgusted with what white people did, I also questioned myself. Would I believe and act the same way, in that time and space? I like to think not. But of course there is no way to know for sure, and that is distressing. I also wondered that as I watched Roots as a child (and then read the book in my 20's), and as I learned in Hebrew school and at home about the Holocaust. What would I have done in that space and time? That said, the whole "when you know better, you do better", I'd like to think that as a society on the whole, we would know better and do better, and we'd have moved past the terrible things that have been done to others in the past. Anyone who is bringing these harmful, hateful, and destructive beliefs or practices to the present and future should have no place in the history books, and do not get a hall pass. Yup, a prickly subject, for sure.
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I read, in Grace Smith's book on self hypnosis, "What if you're purpose in life is to be as kind as possible to everyone you meet?" So, after years of not knowing what my purpose was, I realized that I was already (mostly) living it! I am already a kind and caring person. As a waitress, I love my mission of being a "Day Maker", and I never miss a chance to tell someone who has helped me in any way, that I very much appreciate them and their assistance. I don't see myself ever making a huge splash sort of difference (though, you never know!), but I like to think that I make a difference, one interaction at a time, one moment at a time. And I think this is good enough. I hope others will give themselves the permission to do the same.
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Add me to all the folks who are okay with Emily (or anyone else) making money teaching us techniques to make our lives better. I get that it seems greedy and materialistic, but it's really a win-win. She makes a living, and we improve our lives (which probably includes us making a better living). I read the book, and have done the "Z technique" mediation twice a day, for about 2 1/2 weeks. I have listened to several of her interviews and am in her facebook group. Yes, she is smack dab in the middle of a major media campaign to sell her book, which is what everyone does when they have anything to promote. But every single time I listen to her speak (or read her words), something she says has a positive impact on my life. She is incredibly articulate and knowlegeable. So listen, don't judge. And if you want the good stuff she has to teach us, read the book and get started. Yes, you could spend much more for her online course and/or in person workshops, but the book is affordable and doable. If you don't want it, don't do it. But then you will likely stay just as cranky and critical as you are. You don't want that, do you?
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