Responding to the Present Crisis

The present crisis has automatically put you in a position when you are physically safe and secur...

An episode of the Fundamental Expressions podcast, hosted by Y V Chawla, titled "Responding to the Present Crisis" was published on March 29, 2020 and runs 2 minutes.

March 29, 2020 ·2m · Fundamental Expressions

Summary

The present crisis has automatically put you in a position when you are physically safe and secured, but feeling psychologically insecured, unsafe. To acknowledge this insecurity, this unsafety, not to run away from this insecurity (by glossy explanations) is the key. We can not know – what the System of the Universe does – death, devastation, untold misery beyond all calculations. Our intellect is limited by complaining, blaming, feeling guilty, by hopes for the future, by scientific, economic explanations. Are we merely pawns in the hands of nature or the System of the universe? Can we stop being satisfied by any explanations, any postponement of the issue? Can we see that explanations simply give relief to the mind and bury the question? Can we hold ourselves in a no answer position, not as our inability but by seeing it as a fact? We are face to face with ‘what is’. There is no escape to any comforting explanation. You begin to see ‘what is True’. On facing an unpalatable situation (as the present crisis) - negative thoughts, depressive thoughts, doomsday prediction thoughts do come to the mind. We begin to seek relief from the uneasiness, these thoughts generate. Can you just see them as they are? Negativity begins to dissolve. You land on the magical ground. What can one do in the present crisis? Any action (however small it may be) adds to the solution. The point to understand is the pain, uneasiness, confusion-you are experiencing and not the hope, solace that things will become alright in future. One escapes ‘action’ by this diversion of hope. In any situation, one has to act and see ‘what happens’. Why not hope? Hope is in built in your action, harping about it dissipates the energy.

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