For those of you who have access to Netflix, i recommend “Mission: Joy. Finding Happiness in Troubled Times,” a documentary of about 80 minutes featuring the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
i paused it at about the one-hour mark, to put up this notice, when the Dalai Lama said, in effect, goodness is basic human nature, but people read newspapers and believe what they read, then feel more hopelessness and then feel that humanity is bad.
That’s very true. I, who was once a news junkie, turned my back on it long ago, starting with any medium depending on commercials, and moving farther and farther away from the mainstream. I somewhat regret losing track of things, sometimes quite acutely, but I see no alternative, at least for me. Other people’s paths differ, of course. But the Dalai Lama’s point remains: You get a distorted view of the world, of each other, when you rely too heavily upon the news as reported.
This isn’t the essence of the program. The essence is living in joy, and there can be no greater affirmation than to watch the joyful interaction between this man who has lived most of his life in exile, and this man who grew up in poverty and had to engage in a lifelong fight against racism and oppression.
It is the truth that Viktor Frankl learned in a concentration camp, and it is no less true today.
TGU’s oft-repeated theme “Which you?” has been very useful in working with the material the Frank/TGU mind makes available. I’ve learned it can be adapted to many areas, and “Which thing?” (which may sound uselessly vague and diffuse at first) is useful because of the breadth and freedom it provides.
Guidance suggests active and aware consideration of which things you choose to ‘track’ is important for the reasons the Dalai Lama, Frank and others mention … and more. Seems to me that ‘which things’ in one’s life greatly affects ‘which you’ lives in 3D … and likely non-3D too.