Draupadi Murmu was sworn in as 15th President on 25 July. First tribal president of India. Vice-presidential campaign is between Jagdeep Dhankad and Margaret Alva for the election on 6 August. Jagdeep Dhankad appears to be going through a formality.
Ranil Wickremesinghe is the new President of Srilanka, elected by its Parliament. Rajapakse’s associate, Dinesh Gunawardena is appointed as the new Prime Minister.
Rishi Shunak is on the way to being the new prime minister of the UK.
Gurupurnima. Guru saakshaat parabrahma tasmai sree gurave namah. Gurus are in thoughts. Gratitude to all those who help us in getting the darkness out of the way. Vyasa’s vedas. Buddha’s first sermon. Buddha’s sangha. Siva’s yoga. Can we practice ‘chaturmas’? ‘yoganidra’? ‘upavaasa’? retreat?
Can we learn and offer self-awareness, the ability to trust one’s thoughts, feelings, motives, values et al, self-inquiry, reflection, realization, responsiveness and the ability to resolve conflict within and without? Can we practice and offer to practice the hope, faith, promise, love and coexistence value portfolio? Optimism, resilience? Do we have and demonstrate a sense of purpose? Passion in practice? Caring for the work? Value-criticality? Real relations? Moving forward focus on? Genuine sensitive heart?
Can we explore our lives, our experiences and discover? Can we reflect, with dedicated time set aside? Can we listen? Can we be flexible in our styles of work?
Can we have diets with less or no processed foods? Can we have more fibre? Can we have more fruits, whole grains, vegetables, legumes, and tubers? Can we aid the microbiome in our gut? Day-to-day existential habits need work now. Not later. Not in the future. Can we act now? Can we eat more ‘fibre’? Can we start seeing more sunrises? Can we end our eating more and more before the sunsets?
Where are we? Solvers or facilitaors? Can we move from offering fish, to teaching fishing, to teaching metafishing, beyond fishing? To discover/anticipate ‘the problem’, and the tools, skills, and resources required for this. To pursue acquiring these tools, skills et al. To employ/deploy to solve the problem(s).
Can we do our work? Can we acquire the ability to do our work? Can we learn not to be drawn to doing others’ work? Particularly if they can do it if they have the ability, competence, skills, tools, knowledge and resources to do it. Can we realize that we have no time for ourselves more often? Can we realize that being open doors does not mean allowing work to transfer unto ourselves? Can we realize that the reward for good work is more work? More of the same. How do we get out of these cycles?
Can we realize that whatever we desire intensely will manifest into form? Can we reclaim our internal power? Can we learn to govern ourselves? Can we learn to coexist? If we see recurring themes before us, we need to reflect and work on them. Let us listen to our intuitions and gut insights, and instincts. It helps.
Let us be thankful for being here now. Let us list what we did and what we could not. Who/what helped us. Who/what prevented us to fall. Their actions/methods. Let us list our experiences. Let us list persons in our lives. Their significance. Their contribution. Let us list our habits and hobbies. Let us list our smiles. The triggers for the smiles. Let us list the exciting surprises. Their interpretations. Can we?
Yes, we can. By being reflective. Being articulate about reflecting. Coexisting in-nature. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of grateful resilient loving useful coexisten00ce co-living co-action – dhanyayoga for 7L.
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