Session Review of 16th Aug

Today's session was both enjoyable and introspective.

While the music opened up our creativity, we were relaxed enough thro' it to skip the meditation. I am thinking of what Ratnesh would say in connection to this on Tuesday session.

 Debates/understanding other's point of view showed me that I was so obsessed with expressing MY viewpoint that I wasn't paying any heed to the objective. Looking back I see how many times Ratnesh pointed it out to us as we strayed away from the objective. Till we stop our assumptions we aren't going to understand other's perspective. We are going to remain blindfolded and see the elephant the way we feel it.

Here I have a doubt, if everyone in our group had decided that we will follow the objective, who would express their point of view? Won't it be 'pehle aap, pehle aap' situation. If I don't express my view point, how are others going to know it and vice versa? Some one please confuse me more…

The gradual shift to HOM was wonderful. First the mention of this 'HOM' reminded me of the story of TenaliRama where he trained a cat to hate milk. We can train/habituate our mind to do anything. The relevance of thinking skills assignment sinks in now. I am going to redo it. I was so shaken by it that a few others and I sat discussing abt it much after 1.00pm. See the persistence in understanding it even though we were hungry (remember the last activity in Mini's session?)

I am not signing off this review

More thoughts\confusions\experiences to follow

Shubha