Dear Margie,
It sounds like you’re a bit
frustrated. However I encourage you to
keep at the meditation. If you stick to
it, it will take less and less time to enter the silence. Keep it up.
When we talked on the phone the
other night and you expressed so much hatred for George Bush I got to
thinking. I don’t think you are being
fair to yourself when you take the news so personally. In the first place you are not getting a
balanced view because the media is obsessed with money and it knows that
conflict sells. It knows that
But, in fact, for every negative
story thousands of positive stories never get printed. Secondly, this universe is big enough to
contain what little conflict there is without getting fundamentally out of
kilter. I’m constantly amazed by the
many miracles I see taking place all around me.
If you look down on the world from forty thousand feet you can’t help
but notice how beautiful and orderly it is, both man and nature. Everything is connected to every thing else
and working purposefully. The conflict
that the media makes such an issue of is actually a subset of the universal
order, not the other way around. I’m
quite bullish on the world.
But if you honestly feel that the
world is a mess and it is disturbing you, then the only way to actually make a
difference is to take a positive attitude. To become disturbed because the
world is disturbed only increases the net disturbance in the world. The people you are fighting against will only
dig in their heels. There is no sense
worrying about the big picture unless you are one of the movers and shakers who
can actually influence events. But a
small person can carry a peaceful and loving vibration and spread that to
everyone he or she touches.
I think it is also important to
understand that everything here, conflict included, serves a higher
purpose. So when a
person experiences conflict he or she will eventually begin to inquire…to see
what is the cause…and this will lead eventually to self examination and then to
some kind of self correction. In
your own case you are starting to meditate and get your life together because
of your own subjective conflicts. So
this suffering you feel is having a positive result. But there is no need to keep yourself worked
up so you can do your practice. You
should do it for the right reasons…because you are the problem…the world is
fine as it is.
Ram