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Something much bigger than me, that's NNH
Richard J MillerI want to explain myself, because some of you might be wondering why I am not scheduling "teacher" interviews at the same rhythm as last year, and "what's up " for this year. Well, really I have no grand vision that I am about to spring on you. It is just that I don't want to take you on the "great circular route", nor get too repetitious.
I do believe that we can still hear from new faces, (even 100's of them). But let's do it in a constantly new and creative way. Let's affect the lives of more and more people, and especially those who have not been attracted to the way this message is now presented. Let's also discover where we have stopped looking for ourselves. If we believe non-duality is the only truth or the next great savior of mankind, if we twinge when people talk about process or cause and effect, well, I think that we are really stuck in our own "new and improved" concepts.
I have long known about other internet broadcasters on the cutting edge. Financing makes for sophisticated systems. But what if anything are we missing, and where would we take it if resources were no limit?
Please check out my little video, and I will put a few links below, if you want to get a fuller view of what can happen in this wide open medium.
Here is part of the written history of Leo and Twit.tv (This Week in Tech, TWiT)
This is about his website, (Ours is also Drupal based, maybe we are doing a few things right?) http://twit.tv/colophon
Here's his discussion about financing: http://twit.tv/2009/12/03/whats_twit_worth_you
Here is the full video that I excerpted above, (sorry for the white flashes, I left them in, but the message is the same.) It's called the "Best. Video. About. Twit. Ever". You might have to track it down, because today it was on page one, and tonight on page 3. This week Leo is broadcasting live from a technology trade show floor in Las Vegas. (Hey, we have mobile broadcasts too.)
http://inside.twit.tv/blog/?currentPage=3
All very interesting because you don't need to re-invent the wheel to talk to the world. Leo wants to become the CNN for technology. I don't attach very easily to superlatives. But we could certainly touch a lot of lives on this planet. We know the message that makes a difference and we have the methods to get it out there. We are on the cutting edge, and strategically much better poised than any one Guru, Master or charismatic leader, because we include them too.
The remarkable effect of "YES"
Richard J Miller(Please Go Right to the full blog on this one, 'Read More', not the shortened version.)
A little more than 13 months ago I had the honor to sit with Ramesh Balsekar in Mumbai, and ask him a few questions. One thing that he talked about he called the "biological reaction", meaning our body's reaction to what we see, hear, think and feel, coming from this moment into our senses. He said that "we are not the doer of this bodily reaction."
Apart from that, we can all acknowledge that we do get a different feeling from each thing that we see and hear. Watching one video we get very engrossed and want the follow-up discussion right away, while another video we switch off immediately. Something remembered within our mechanism comprises our likes and dislikes and our illusive sense of "knowing". Sometimes it comes out particularly strong as feelings followed quickly by action.
An effect that I find, seemingly coming from exposure to non-dual ideas, or let's say from exposure to "straight talk about life" is that I can now find a kernel of truth in almost everything that confronts me. Sometimes that truth is pretty strong, even when it is laced with statements that my judgement machine considers missing the mark.
Harvey says, when your life is barren, ask God to fill you. I would like to ask, do we have to wait that long? Like in so many non-duality teachings talking about unbearable suffering, as if that is the major highway in. Who will step up to prove that wrong? YES can be a grand experiment. He says "God will use you from where you are".
What about Harvey's enthusiasm? At least it is a barrel of fun. Could any advaitist speaker be so dynamic? Would it work, would it be well received? Would the people listening realize "who am I". Maybe approaching truth through some imagined "suffering" is the long way around an essentially very simple affair.
(Com'on, say "Yes" once in a while, and see what happens.)
Connection through song with Bernie Heideman
Richard J MillerI was cleaning out hard disk space this week and I found the Gayatri Mantra sung by Bernie Heideman. I couldn't throw it away without doing something with it. Four years ago I stayed with Bernie in Hotchkiss, CO.. We stayed up late every night and talked. I was filming at a Neelam retreat, and I also participated in one of his Dances of Universal Peace.
It was always great fun with Neelam because she offered so many processes of interaction between people. What's it like when you look into your neighbor's eyes, 20 people in succession and sing "I am open to all that you are"? TRY IT!
Do you get enlightened? I guess I am not qualified to comment. Is that the point?
The Value of Travel
Richard J MillerLast year I went to India about this time, and some of the people that I met there are about to head back or planning to go shortly.
I am in a phase where I don't even want to make a plan more than 60 days in advance. I prefer to leave a hole, where the opportunity of the moment can "fall in". Florian asked me to travel with him for all or part of his USA tour. Of course I'll be here in Chicago with him, and plan to accompany him in CA. Then instead of going back to Toronto, I thought to stay in CA for the rest of the month. This is a big hole.