3 principles for spiritual community building
- 1. By Chaitanya Charan Das ABC: Three principles of spiritual community building
- 2. By Chaitanya Charan Das Authenticity
- 3. By Chaitanya Charan Das Three principles Authenticity Balance Commitment
- 4. By Chaitanya Charan Das Authenticity If God had wanted you to be someone else, he would have made someone else
- 5. By Chaitanya Charan Das Authenticity If the shoe doesnt fit the leg, dont cut the leg Dont imitate external glamorized models
- 6. By Chaitanya Charan Das Authenticity Be yourself: Physically Psychologically Spiritually
- 7. By Chaitanya Charan Das Authenticity Develop your instincts Discipline your impulses Deepen your devotion
- 8. By Chaitanya Charan Das Authenticity Bhakti Static understanding vs Dynamic understanding
- 9. By Chaitanya Charan Das Authenticity Static: This is the path to bhakti follow it Dynamic: From where you are, lets find out how you can come to Krishna
- 10. By Chaitanya Charan Das Authenticity Gita 18.46: Through your work, worship him Arjunas archery
- 11. By Chaitanya Charan Das Balance
- 12. By Chaitanya Charan Das Balance SP: Intelligence means to see things in their proper perspective
- 13. By Chaitanya Charan Das History of imbalance Only nature - pre-modern Only nurture- post- modern Balance: Nurture & nature
- 14. By Chaitanya Charan Das Knowledge in three modes 18.22: Ignorance: see one thing to be everything
- 15. By Chaitanya Charan Das Knowledge in three modes 18.21: Passion: see only material as everything
- 16. By Chaitanya Charan Das Knowledge in three modes 18.20: Goodness: See material and spiritual in harmony
- 17. By Chaitanya Charan Das Balance Dynamic balance: Not formula But art Eg bike-riding
- 18. By Chaitanya Charan Das Commitment
- 19. By Chaitanya Charan Das Commitment We are not just individuals We are individual parts of a Whole
- 20. By Chaitanya Charan Das How Devotion relates with Frustration Renunciation Absorption
- 21. By Chaitanya Charan Das Commitment Aversion to commitment is not detachment Mode of ignorance vs Mode of goodness
- 22. By Chaitanya Charan Das Commitment Horizontal relationship & Vertical relationships
- 23. By Chaitanya Charan Das Commitment Horizontal Vertical: Conflict Compartmentalization Concord
- 24. By Chaitanya Charan Das Commitment Takeoff from ground Airplane vs Helicopter
- 25. By Chaitanya Charan Das Expanding our circle of affection We grow in selflessness From ourselves To our loved ones To Krishna
- 26. By Chaitanya Charan Das Devotion Not attachment or detachment But commitment
- 27. By Chaitanya Charan Das Devotion is Contribution Our best comes not just by finding ourselves, but by offering ourselves to something bigger than ourselves
- 28. By Chaitanya Charan Das Accept Accepting is not agreeing, condoning, capitulating it is just calling off our war with reality
- 29. By Chaitanya Charan Das Accept What frustrates us most is not the reality but the distance between our expectation and the reality
- 30. By Chaitanya Charan Das Accept Dhritarashtra never accepted that he couldnt be the king was lifelong fighting a battle he had already lost
- 31. By Chaitanya Charan Das Ascertain Value-judgments about others cloud our inner vision e.g. Hands in front of our eyes
- 32. By Chaitanya Charan Das Ascertain To know peoples background means to know whats on their back and whats under their ground
- 33. By Chaitanya Charan Das Ascertain Judging without understanding Vali-Sugriva Best friends becomes worst enemies
- 34. By Chaitanya Charan Das Whats under their ground What has shaped their conceptions about themselves, others and the world
- 35. By Chaitanya Charan Das Ascertain Everyone needs to be understood as much as they need oxygen Hearing without evaluating gives them psychological oxygen
- 36. By Chaitanya Charan Das Appreciate Begin with the 1% commonality, not the 99% difference e.g. BG18.20 vs 18.21
- 37. By Chaitanya Charan Das Appreciate Focus on common values, not on differing methods e.g. Gita 05.02
- 38. By Chaitanya Charan Das Appreciate Others are dancing to a different tune, not out of tune
- 39. By Chaitanya Charan Das Appreciate Desensitized vs insensitive e.g. Cleanliness
- 40. By Chaitanya Charan Das Appreciate I wish I could walk as fast as you Look for blessings, not for problems
- 41. By Chaitanya Charan Das Appreciate I can live for two months on a good compliment We never know the worth of water til the well runs dry.
- 42. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act Maturity means that no one is obliged to fulfill our needs
- 43. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act Dont depress yourself or others depress your expectations of yourself and others
- 44. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act The heaviest thing to hold is a grudge experience the freedom of letting go
- 45. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act In the war of egos, the winner is the bigger loser Let go
- 46. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act Speak to give peace of mind, not a piece of your mind e.g. Gita 17.15
- 47. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act Tolerate Mitigate Emigrate
- 48. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act Krishna is our ultimate shelter Let he be our anchor amidst emotional and relational storms
- 49. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act See every relationship as an impetus for connecting with Krishna some positive, some negative
- 50. By Chaitanya Charan Das Act Dont see through others; See others through