Mind it 3 choosing healthy response to problems
- 1. What we can change Ext events: No Int respones: Yes Our modes make us respond in default ways
- 2. To change our default responses Change how we Perceive: Become aware of our conditionings Process: Learn to moderate our expectations Pursue: Choose the channel that keeps our consciousness moving
- 3. Pursue: Tolerate Mitigate Emigrate Some things cant be changed - tolerate Some things cant not be changed mitigate Some things neednt be changed emigrate
- 4. Material vs spiritual approaches Material: Change the externals Spiritual: Change the internals
- 5. External change - Excess Decreased commitment to anything Lack of fulfillment in anything Eg. Gender bender
- 6. Internal change - Excess Apathy and passivity to atrocity Fatalism
- 7. Pursue - Pandavas Tolerated: Poisoning, Arson Mitigated: Draupadis disrobing Emigrated: Krishnas departure
- 8. Pursue Srila Prabhupada Tolerated: Meat in hosts fridge Mitigated: Fought for Juhu land Emigrated: Focused on US instead of India to start ISKCON
- 9. Increasing tolerance Desensitized = Insensitive Eg. Touching numbed arm Understand that some people just cant understand some things eg tone deaf
- 10. Increasing tolerance We are together not so much for our material gratification as for our spiritual evolution Eg. Leech
- 11. Look beyond problems to Krishna Let our self-identity come from our vertical relationship We are Krishnas servants first, acting in various roles as a service
- 12. Flow of consciousness When one channel gets blocked, find a channel that is unblocked Change the driving question from Why? to How?
- 13. Focus on serving Krishna Surrender through Dependence on Krishna & Diligence for Krishna Eg Tennis match
- 14. Dont catastrophize, contextualize Whatever karma may get us to, Krishna will get us through
- 15. See with the eyes of faith We see the present and plan the future Krishna sees the future and plans the present