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This article by Ms Vandana Shiva very lucidly shows how the so called Green Revolution was neither "green" nor a "revolution". Infact it degraded the land and caused massive unrest. Similarly 2 lac farmers have committed suicide since 1997 when the GM Bt cotton came to be used.And now we have the Operation Greenhunt which,in the name of fighting Maoist terror,actually seems cleverly planned to expropriate the tribals of their land and hand these over to the mining czars. The situation is grim and unless the collective protests,we might well be signing our death warrants, and that of our children, for the short sighted and illusory gains of the bucaneer capitalists and their collaborators.
Interpreting the colour green
Ecologists like me are called “greens”. We work to protect the green mantle of the earth — forests and biodiversity, soil and water. Nature’s green capital is the real capital that supports all life, and in the final analysis all livelihoods and the entire economy. However, the colour green has been much abused and used for anti-green, anti-nature, anti-people programmes.
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Non Thinking Brain is the Key
Subject: [IT-BHU-BatchOf1982 ] Cancer attacks even the Super Healthy
Friends,
I just read a news report that Martina Navratilova, nine times Wimbledon champion, has breast cancer. She is totally puzzled with this affliction. She eats healthily and, at the age of 53,has an exercise regimen that would put most people half her age to shame.She's never smoked and rarely drinks.
At this point, I think, we should take a deep breath and question the established wisdom. Proper diet and exercises are necessary but apparently not enough for our protection.The body is not an independent entity, but is a product of our beliefs, attitudes and opinions.And these come from the established social consciousness, the political, social,economic
view of the dominant groups which is propagated through the popular media, the education system, the religious bodies and ,very subtle but equally pernicious, the theories propogated by the scientific establishment. It has been well documented that most of the activity that is undertaken as unassailable "science" is , infact, driven,and paid for, by commercial interests.Most of this "establishment science"is also a prisoner of the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm which was first broadened by Einstein's relativity principle and is now further broadened and refined by the principles of quantum mechanics.This gives primacy to the theory of the Observer whose very act of observation and focus changes the whole paradigm of which he is an integral part.
To cut the story short, before you hit the delete button, everything that happens to us depends on our beliefs.And we have been shortchanged by the totally limiting beliefs of the ruling establishment which make us feel small.We are seldom told that we are, infact, sovereign creatures with full control of our destinies.Plus we have a very unfair system which, instead of empowering the multitude,consigns them to povery, hunger and disease and has given to us a very competitive, dog eat dog,paradigm which is totally unnecessary.
And this happens because we have surrendered our sovereignty to our govts and the dominant groups and have forgotten to discover our real Selves.We are hapless prisoners of the thinking mind and are ignorant of the sleeping giant, the 90% non thinking part of the brain, which can change everything where all of us will matter rather than a handful as of now.
Avinash
Friends,
I just read a news report that Martina Navratilova, nine times Wimbledon champion, has breast cancer. She is totally puzzled with this affliction. She eats healthily and, at the age of 53,has an exercise regimen that would put most people half her age to shame.She's never smoked and rarely drinks.
At this point, I think, we should take a deep breath and question the established wisdom. Proper diet and exercises are necessary but apparently not enough for our protection.The body is not an independent entity, but is a product of our beliefs, attitudes and opinions.And these come from the established social consciousness, the political, social,economic
view of the dominant groups which is propagated through the popular media, the education system, the religious bodies and ,very subtle but equally pernicious, the theories propogated by the scientific establishment. It has been well documented that most of the activity that is undertaken as unassailable "science" is , infact, driven,and paid for, by commercial interests.Most of this "establishment science"is also a prisoner of the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm which was first broadened by Einstein's relativity principle and is now further broadened and refined by the principles of quantum mechanics.This gives primacy to the theory of the Observer whose very act of observation and focus changes the whole paradigm of which he is an integral part.
To cut the story short, before you hit the delete button, everything that happens to us depends on our beliefs.And we have been shortchanged by the totally limiting beliefs of the ruling establishment which make us feel small.We are seldom told that we are, infact, sovereign creatures with full control of our destinies.Plus we have a very unfair system which, instead of empowering the multitude,consigns them to povery, hunger and disease and has given to us a very competitive, dog eat dog,paradigm which is totally unnecessary.
And this happens because we have surrendered our sovereignty to our govts and the dominant groups and have forgotten to discover our real Selves.We are hapless prisoners of the thinking mind and are ignorant of the sleeping giant, the 90% non thinking part of the brain, which can change everything where all of us will matter rather than a handful as of now.
Avinash
Why Race when we can Dance
One of the most seductive myths that the Indian middle class and its elite believes in is that the 21st century is the Indian Century. Generously the myth adds that we shall share honours with China. Wishfully it contends that we will have a seat in the United Nations Security Council. Our diaspora certifies this myth because it adds to its brittle dignity in the countries it lives in. Between IT, our youthful population, our comparative advantage in knowledge, we seem set to win the gold medals of globalisation. A panopoly of exemplars from Sam Pitroda to Nandan Nilekani is paraded as testimony to this myth of Indian progress. I want to play spoil sport to this thesis, not because India is going nowhere but because this is not the place to go or the way to do it. My arguments are as follows.
India is a pluralistic assemblage of civilisations and communities. When the West followed the myth of progress, it read the relation between tribe, peasant, industry as a sequence where the tribe evolved into industrialism. This created a legitimation for decimation of what was dubbed the primitive and the tribal. In India, the tribal is not our ancestor but our contemporary. We do not confine him to the museum or the reservation and we should not seek to deculture him. Ours has to be a multiple world with plural futures. To homogenise it is to accept the fact of genocide.
In a civilisation sense India has been a sustainable society. There is, however, one danger. If most of India were to turn middle class with equivalent standards of consumption, we would cannibalise the world and its resources. India as a whole cannot live at the calorific level of the American middle class. That would be the programme of unsustainable society and a short-run view of global responsibility.
India has to construct itself differently, inventing not just a new notion of ecological economies but a new imagination for democracy. The old model of a democracy as a pastiche of rights, electoralism and the vision of a nation state is old hat. Without a sustainable ecology, we cannot be a sustainable democracy. The test of sustainability is not just the survival of the forest, it is the well-being and liveability of our cities. We have to reconstruct the sustainable city as an imagination, think of new theories of space, creative ways of managing waste and rework the nation state which is currently a form of conspicuous consumption. Instead of fighting over carbon credits, let us take the battle the other way and invent new ecological possibilities. The idea of living on less need not be a Protestant theology or a repressive ideology. It can be a celebration of life, a civilisation’s way of reducing violence. It does not require a return to primitivism but a creativity that looks at the complexity of the world and creates a playful scenario of responsibility. We grow more, but not as an economy but as an ecology. We intensify diversity not just of nature but of the varieties of culture, where each culture is an exemplar of problem solving. We sustain ecologies and languages and become a high information society by ways of life, the livelihoods, the forms of knowledge we sustain. Around knowledge, we create an ethics of memory where different theories, memories can talk to each other. We need to remember that the other word for progress is obsolescence, the systematic eradication of our societies. We have to decentralise the “Indian Imagination” and stop seeing differences as pathological. I think it is time we drop the standardised prose of globalisation and tell the world that we are different and that our future is different.
We do not need to be envious of China and its bully boy militarism. The economics of force and the herd is not what we seek. The Chinese cost benefit on violence, uniformity, speed is not what we seek or what we are afraid of. We don’t seek to race or be part of the “B teams” of globalisation. If we are a civilisation, let us think like a civilisation. We have behaved like a second-hand society content to be Charles Lamb of the genius of other cultures. Let us understand the genius of other cultures by living out our dialects, our dreams, our forms of religion, our ideas of myth, ethics, our sense of values worked out as craft, colour or cooking. Why race when we can dance, why talk of the illiteracy of the globe when we have a sense of the cosmos? I want to argue that this is not a retreat from the world, but a return to our own genius. I cannot understand an India which is indifferent to its 50,000 varieties of rice but celebrates some child winning the Spelling Bee in the US.
A globalised India which sees itself as a second US is a secondhand, second-rate society. We become mimic men not of the old colonialism but of new imperialism which demands that we internalise the American way of life. It is time we move playfully away and discard the fetish for development, or the dreariness of millennial goals which has no sense of justice or poetry.
If India secedes from the global standard, I am sure other countries will follow. We dream differently and we do not need the current nightmare of IPRs (intellectual property rights). We do not need to subscribe to the battle of civilisations when any child can show that Huntington is an illiterate and that India is a great Islamic society. We do not have to close ourselves to do it but challenge the world to a debate. We need a wild ethics to challenge the dullness of the global dream. Let China westernise. I think we have the confidence to go our own way, offering hospitality to more sustainable and democratic dreams. China envy like America envy is a futile disease and like most Indian pathologies — self-inflicted. Our democracy is too precious. Our civilisation is much more interesting than the current visions of our time. The present is ethically unsustainable. It is this that we have to confront.
* Shiv Visvanathan is a social scientist
India is a pluralistic assemblage of civilisations and communities. When the West followed the myth of progress, it read the relation between tribe, peasant, industry as a sequence where the tribe evolved into industrialism. This created a legitimation for decimation of what was dubbed the primitive and the tribal. In India, the tribal is not our ancestor but our contemporary. We do not confine him to the museum or the reservation and we should not seek to deculture him. Ours has to be a multiple world with plural futures. To homogenise it is to accept the fact of genocide.
In a civilisation sense India has been a sustainable society. There is, however, one danger. If most of India were to turn middle class with equivalent standards of consumption, we would cannibalise the world and its resources. India as a whole cannot live at the calorific level of the American middle class. That would be the programme of unsustainable society and a short-run view of global responsibility.
India has to construct itself differently, inventing not just a new notion of ecological economies but a new imagination for democracy. The old model of a democracy as a pastiche of rights, electoralism and the vision of a nation state is old hat. Without a sustainable ecology, we cannot be a sustainable democracy. The test of sustainability is not just the survival of the forest, it is the well-being and liveability of our cities. We have to reconstruct the sustainable city as an imagination, think of new theories of space, creative ways of managing waste and rework the nation state which is currently a form of conspicuous consumption. Instead of fighting over carbon credits, let us take the battle the other way and invent new ecological possibilities. The idea of living on less need not be a Protestant theology or a repressive ideology. It can be a celebration of life, a civilisation’s way of reducing violence. It does not require a return to primitivism but a creativity that looks at the complexity of the world and creates a playful scenario of responsibility. We grow more, but not as an economy but as an ecology. We intensify diversity not just of nature but of the varieties of culture, where each culture is an exemplar of problem solving. We sustain ecologies and languages and become a high information society by ways of life, the livelihoods, the forms of knowledge we sustain. Around knowledge, we create an ethics of memory where different theories, memories can talk to each other. We need to remember that the other word for progress is obsolescence, the systematic eradication of our societies. We have to decentralise the “Indian Imagination” and stop seeing differences as pathological. I think it is time we drop the standardised prose of globalisation and tell the world that we are different and that our future is different.
We do not need to be envious of China and its bully boy militarism. The economics of force and the herd is not what we seek. The Chinese cost benefit on violence, uniformity, speed is not what we seek or what we are afraid of. We don’t seek to race or be part of the “B teams” of globalisation. If we are a civilisation, let us think like a civilisation. We have behaved like a second-hand society content to be Charles Lamb of the genius of other cultures. Let us understand the genius of other cultures by living out our dialects, our dreams, our forms of religion, our ideas of myth, ethics, our sense of values worked out as craft, colour or cooking. Why race when we can dance, why talk of the illiteracy of the globe when we have a sense of the cosmos? I want to argue that this is not a retreat from the world, but a return to our own genius. I cannot understand an India which is indifferent to its 50,000 varieties of rice but celebrates some child winning the Spelling Bee in the US.
A globalised India which sees itself as a second US is a secondhand, second-rate society. We become mimic men not of the old colonialism but of new imperialism which demands that we internalise the American way of life. It is time we move playfully away and discard the fetish for development, or the dreariness of millennial goals which has no sense of justice or poetry.
If India secedes from the global standard, I am sure other countries will follow. We dream differently and we do not need the current nightmare of IPRs (intellectual property rights). We do not need to subscribe to the battle of civilisations when any child can show that Huntington is an illiterate and that India is a great Islamic society. We do not have to close ourselves to do it but challenge the world to a debate. We need a wild ethics to challenge the dullness of the global dream. Let China westernise. I think we have the confidence to go our own way, offering hospitality to more sustainable and democratic dreams. China envy like America envy is a futile disease and like most Indian pathologies — self-inflicted. Our democracy is too precious. Our civilisation is much more interesting than the current visions of our time. The present is ethically unsustainable. It is this that we have to confront.
* Shiv Visvanathan is a social scientist
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Cosmic Inelligence of the Quantum Universe
The following are the thoughts of Paramhans Nityanand, one of the foremost spiritual teachers in India today.Read it carefully and contemplate.
In the universe, on the one hand, planets move so beautifully in order. There are no traffic signs or sign signboards! On the other hand, there is
so much of chaos if you look at all the stars and galaxies moving in their own independent paths. In the same way, in quantum physics , the smallest elements are not even particles. They are both particles and waves, and a multitude of probabilities ! But there is an order in that chaos.
If the universe is chaos without any order, it’ll head towards destruction. ‘Chaos in order’ is ‘cosmic intelligence’ . Take the planet earth. Even if a single thing is missing - temperature, water, air or fire we will not be able to live on this planet earth as we live now. So this is not just an accident. The whole chaos has some order.
The whole universe has its own intelligence. It is not just power. It is energy also. There is a difference between power and energy. Power plus intelligence is energy. Energy without intelligence is power. The cosmos is not just a force. It is ‘force plus intelligence’ . It responds to your thoughts , to your prayers, to your being , because it is intelligence. The cosmos is a living energy and it has its own intelligence. You are sitting inside a living energy.
As long as you believe that what you see as the universe is material, mechanical, without any intelligence, you will have nothing to aim for in life. ‘Might is right’ will be the ultimate law. Believing the world is just matter is the basic mistake. This belief is the root of all terrorism and violence on planet earth. As long as we believe the universe is just dead matter, it is going to create only more and more thirst for power. If we feel the whole world is chaos, then naturally we will think, ‘Let me catch hold of whatever is possible and live as much as I can.’ We will be inspired to live with the idea ‘might is right’ .
Only when we realise that the universe has its own intelligence, when we realise the universe is a spiritual being, the seed of peace is sown. Only when we understand that our thoughts are responded to, our way of life is rewarded, our prayers are answered , there is a living intelligent force and there is an order in the chaos, only then we can realise and work for peace, bliss and spirituality. Then, instead of trying to own or expand our boundaries and borders, we will try to expand our consciousness.
The moment we start believing or trusting that the universe is ‘intelligence’ , we can simply relax, trusting It. Be Blissful!
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In the universe, on the one hand, planets move so beautifully in order. There are no traffic signs or sign signboards! On the other hand, there is
so much of chaos if you look at all the stars and galaxies moving in their own independent paths. In the same way, in quantum physics , the smallest elements are not even particles. They are both particles and waves, and a multitude of probabilities ! But there is an order in that chaos.
If the universe is chaos without any order, it’ll head towards destruction. ‘Chaos in order’ is ‘cosmic intelligence’ . Take the planet earth. Even if a single thing is missing - temperature, water, air or fire we will not be able to live on this planet earth as we live now. So this is not just an accident. The whole chaos has some order.
The whole universe has its own intelligence. It is not just power. It is energy also. There is a difference between power and energy. Power plus intelligence is energy. Energy without intelligence is power. The cosmos is not just a force. It is ‘force plus intelligence’ . It responds to your thoughts , to your prayers, to your being , because it is intelligence. The cosmos is a living energy and it has its own intelligence. You are sitting inside a living energy.
As long as you believe that what you see as the universe is material, mechanical, without any intelligence, you will have nothing to aim for in life. ‘Might is right’ will be the ultimate law. Believing the world is just matter is the basic mistake. This belief is the root of all terrorism and violence on planet earth. As long as we believe the universe is just dead matter, it is going to create only more and more thirst for power. If we feel the whole world is chaos, then naturally we will think, ‘Let me catch hold of whatever is possible and live as much as I can.’ We will be inspired to live with the idea ‘might is right’ .
Only when we realise that the universe has its own intelligence, when we realise the universe is a spiritual being, the seed of peace is sown. Only when we understand that our thoughts are responded to, our way of life is rewarded, our prayers are answered , there is a living intelligent force and there is an order in the chaos, only then we can realise and work for peace, bliss and spirituality. Then, instead of trying to own or expand our boundaries and borders, we will try to expand our consciousness.
The moment we start believing or trusting that the universe is ‘intelligence’ , we can simply relax, trusting It. Be Blissful!
Share
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Life is about Achieving your Dreams and Going Beyond Them
Yes, my friends. The moment we achieve our dreams,they lose our hold on us and we efforlessly move towards other desires and goals.This goes on and after we have achieved all our goals we just live in a state of being.You would also have noticed that a person with steadfast determination and focus is more likely to achieve his dreams quickly than a fickle minded guy.
This phenomenon can be understood by the fact that we may appear to be the body. But this is only in the conscious state at a frequency of 8.3 Hz. At higher frequencies, as in the unconscious state,our consciousness, the essence of who we are, is, infact, in a quantum, subatomic state. In this state we are ONE with the whole of cosmos, the powers of which are unconditionally available to us at all times. Remember this is the same power which runs the billions of cells in our brain, and which keeps the galaxies so harmoniously in their orbits.
Therefore this Ocean of Consciousness that we are immediately at one with is our commom inheritance. And everything in the world that we inhabit is derived from this Ocean.The Observer in us collapses the probability quantum waves of thought energy, through consistent focus and determination, into particle realities.This is a simple phenomean of nature, and has nothing do do with morality. The Universe and it's laws are, infact, completely amoral.
The neocortex, the logical brain, is the imaging machine and the lower cerebellum houses the subconscious brain, the 90% of the brain that we don't consciously use. This is the God, the Observer in us and our common thoughts are projected on our thinking brain every moment. Therefore we have to be alert about the nature of our thoughts as the Observer will bring these to fruition whatever it may be as the Observer is completely devoid of value judgements.
It is through meditation and constant mindfulness that we move from the thinking to a BEING state which inheres in itself infinite(impossible is nothing) possibilities.Therefore instead of being buffeted and claimed by the society, we just have to reclaim ourselves for a grander life which is way beyond what money can buy.
This phenomenon can be understood by the fact that we may appear to be the body. But this is only in the conscious state at a frequency of 8.3 Hz. At higher frequencies, as in the unconscious state,our consciousness, the essence of who we are, is, infact, in a quantum, subatomic state. In this state we are ONE with the whole of cosmos, the powers of which are unconditionally available to us at all times. Remember this is the same power which runs the billions of cells in our brain, and which keeps the galaxies so harmoniously in their orbits.
Therefore this Ocean of Consciousness that we are immediately at one with is our commom inheritance. And everything in the world that we inhabit is derived from this Ocean.The Observer in us collapses the probability quantum waves of thought energy, through consistent focus and determination, into particle realities.This is a simple phenomean of nature, and has nothing do do with morality. The Universe and it's laws are, infact, completely amoral.
The neocortex, the logical brain, is the imaging machine and the lower cerebellum houses the subconscious brain, the 90% of the brain that we don't consciously use. This is the God, the Observer in us and our common thoughts are projected on our thinking brain every moment. Therefore we have to be alert about the nature of our thoughts as the Observer will bring these to fruition whatever it may be as the Observer is completely devoid of value judgements.
It is through meditation and constant mindfulness that we move from the thinking to a BEING state which inheres in itself infinite(impossible is nothing) possibilities.Therefore instead of being buffeted and claimed by the society, we just have to reclaim ourselves for a grander life which is way beyond what money can buy.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Money doesn't equal Wealth
[IT-BHU-BatchOf1982] Re: What teachers make
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Thu, February 4, 2010 1:11:17 PM
From:
avinash sahay
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Cc: IT BHU
Thanks, Brian, the confidence of Mary in the sheer gloriousness of her work is a visibly rare quality these days.But I fully admire her attitude.Money does not equal wealth.It's the kind of work that we do that is paramount,that enhances the consciousness of the person and makes him socially aware and responsive.
But I have noticed that education,instead of enhancing the consciousness, is doing precisely the opposite. It is making people selfish and narrow minded with precisely little knowledge of the fact that all of us, and this beautiful cosmos that we inhabit, is infact deeply interconnected.As a consequence thereof, that love and sensitivity for each and every one of us is, sadly,missing in our daily interactions.
We may well be highly mistaken if we think that our super duper brains and salaries will make our day for us.What might well make the day is learning to work together in a spirit of love and cooperative endeavour, sublimating our narrow personal goals for the common good, so that whatever be the nature of the problem or work at hand, we are equal to that task.
But I live in hope, Brian.People are slowly beginning to see the futility of the rat race and the strength in an empowered populace. Unless we can swim together, we will surely sink together.
Best regards,
Avinash
http://poshaning. blogspot. com/
From: Brian Fernandez
To: brianowhere
Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 7:39:08 PM
Subject: What teaches make
WHAT TEACHERS MAKE
The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life.
One man, a CEO (proud of being a professional) , decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, 'What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?'
He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers: 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.'
To stress his point he said to another guest;
'You're a teacher, Mary. Be honest. What do you make?
Mary, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied,
'You want to know what I make?
(She paused for a second then began...)
'Well, I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I make a C+ feel like the Medal of Honor.
I make kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents can't make them sit for 5 without an I
Pod, Game Cube or movie rental.
You want to know what I make?' (She paused again and looked at each and every person at the table.)
''I make kids wonder.
I make them question.
I make them apologize and mean it.
I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions.
I teach them to write and then I make them write.
Keyboarding isn't everything.
I make them read, read, read.
I make them show all their work in maths. They use their God-given brain, not the man-made calculator.
I make my students from other countries learn everything they need to know in English while preserving their unique cultural identity.
I make my classroom a place where all my students feel safe.
I make my students stand, to say the Pledgeof Allegiance to the National Flag, and sing the National Anthem because we live in this great country.
Finally, I make them understand that if they use the gifts they were given, work hard, and follow
their hearts, they can succeed in life.'
(Mary paused one last time and then continued.)
'Then, when people try to judge me by what I make, with me knowing money isn't everything, I can hold my head up high and pay no attention because they are ignorant... You want to know what I make?
I make a difference.
.
What do you make Mr. CEO?'
His jaw dropped; he went silent.
THIS IS WORTH SENDING TO EVERY TEACHER
YOU KNOW.
Even all your personal teachers like mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters,grandparent s &
your spiritual teachers
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From:
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Cc: IT BHU
Thanks, Brian, the confidence of Mary in the sheer gloriousness of her work is a visibly rare quality these days.But I fully admire her attitude.Money does not equal wealth.It's the kind of work that we do that is paramount,that enhances the consciousness of the person and makes him socially aware and responsive.
But I have noticed that education,instead of enhancing the consciousness, is doing precisely the opposite. It is making people selfish and narrow minded with precisely little knowledge of the fact that all of us, and this beautiful cosmos that we inhabit, is infact deeply interconnected.As a consequence thereof, that love and sensitivity for each and every one of us is, sadly,missing in our daily interactions.
We may well be highly mistaken if we think that our super duper brains and salaries will make our day for us.What might well make the day is learning to work together in a spirit of love and cooperative endeavour, sublimating our narrow personal goals for the common good, so that whatever be the nature of the problem or work at hand, we are equal to that task.
But I live in hope, Brian.People are slowly beginning to see the futility of the rat race and the strength in an empowered populace. Unless we can swim together, we will surely sink together.
Best regards,
Avinash
http://poshaning. blogspot. com/
From: Brian Fernandez
To: brianowhere
Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010 7:39:08 PM
Subject: What teaches make
WHAT TEACHERS MAKE
The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life.
One man, a CEO (proud of being a professional) , decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, 'What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?'
He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers: 'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.'
To stress his point he said to another guest;
'You're a teacher, Mary. Be honest. What do you make?
Mary, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied,
'You want to know what I make?
(She paused for a second then began...)
'Well, I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.
I make a C+ feel like the Medal of Honor.
I make kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents can't make them sit for 5 without an I
Pod, Game Cube or movie rental.
You want to know what I make?' (She paused again and looked at each and every person at the table.)
''I make kids wonder.
I make them question.
I make them apologize and mean it.
I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions.
I teach them to write and then I make them write.
Keyboarding isn't everything.
I make them read, read, read.
I make them show all their work in maths. They use their God-given brain, not the man-made calculator.
I make my students from other countries learn everything they need to know in English while preserving their unique cultural identity.
I make my classroom a place where all my students feel safe.
I make my students stand, to say the Pledgeof Allegiance to the National Flag, and sing the National Anthem because we live in this great country.
Finally, I make them understand that if they use the gifts they were given, work hard, and follow
their hearts, they can succeed in life.'
(Mary paused one last time and then continued.)
'Then, when people try to judge me by what I make, with me knowing money isn't everything, I can hold my head up high and pay no attention because they are ignorant... You want to know what I make?
I make a difference.
.
What do you make Mr. CEO?'
His jaw dropped; he went silent.
THIS IS WORTH SENDING TO EVERY TEACHER
YOU KNOW.
Even all your personal teachers like mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters,grandparent s &
your spiritual teachers
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Hold on to the Centre
These are times of changes, very fast and,sometimes, cataclysmic. In moments such as these, one is wont to be off balance.The old certainties, the easy pace, the measured life is gone. People run with no idea of where they are headed. This kind of a life can be very disconcerting.
However the message from the Masters is not to fall prey to naysayers and the doomsdayers. Our earth is organically connected to the whole of Cosmos-Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam. So we are bound to receive the vibrations of varying frequencies from all over.We would have experienced sense of panic and doom at various times.Body and muscular spasms, depression, even a sense of paranoia.
The trick to take care of yourself in moments as these is to stay in the "centre", in the "middle" as it were. We must understand that our brain is the finest and the most complex supercomputer ever made, and it somehow "knows" how to take care of us.But we must hold on firmly to this knowledge and live in love and hope.The negative forces are playing out their last drama.Our mother earth is indeed our mother and will protect us, it is an organic being not a mechanical bathtub about to overflow due to incessant warming.
The times are, indeed, difficult. But if each one of us can be in the "centre", with love, compassion and hope, and live FULLY in this moment to the best of our ability, we would have begun the process of vanquishing the forces of darkness and of separation.
However the message from the Masters is not to fall prey to naysayers and the doomsdayers. Our earth is organically connected to the whole of Cosmos-Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam. So we are bound to receive the vibrations of varying frequencies from all over.We would have experienced sense of panic and doom at various times.Body and muscular spasms, depression, even a sense of paranoia.
The trick to take care of yourself in moments as these is to stay in the "centre", in the "middle" as it were. We must understand that our brain is the finest and the most complex supercomputer ever made, and it somehow "knows" how to take care of us.But we must hold on firmly to this knowledge and live in love and hope.The negative forces are playing out their last drama.Our mother earth is indeed our mother and will protect us, it is an organic being not a mechanical bathtub about to overflow due to incessant warming.
The times are, indeed, difficult. But if each one of us can be in the "centre", with love, compassion and hope, and live FULLY in this moment to the best of our ability, we would have begun the process of vanquishing the forces of darkness and of separation.
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