Your truth is truth and not an opinion / don’t need to test your truth |
Others have a false claim on the truth |
Your truth is under threat from the world because the world doesn’t get it/isn’t ready for my secret genius |
Confirmed in my superiority |
Choose to Be Love
After reading her poem “banquet,” Rohini explains how we must never conflate humiliation with humility, or getting and giving love with Being Love–the Love that is our true nature.
shunya….
been attacked
from
both sides
Read More…
Open to others’ opinions….
Open to others’ opinions |
Don’t need to listen |
Never know what to believe |
You know the truth and are willing to take a stand |
Using the Intellect Appropriately
Answering a student’s question, Rohini explains how the intellect leads us into delusion if we identify with it, and clarifies how it is to be used as the instrument it is, not who we truly are.
another petty pace….
running the show
indispensable
when
nothere who hears you
Committed to distorting reality / twisting and distorting facts / don’t listen because you know / rigid
Committed to distorting reality / twisting and distorting facts / don’t listen because you know / rigid |
Seeing clearly and committed to clarity |
Right all the time and forbearing about it |
Living with uncertainty / no security |
straw dog….
you can’t die
you are not alive
get over yourself
Caring / giving and getting attention / participating….
Caring / giving and getting attention / participating |
No conversation / doesn’t contribute |
Pedantic / lecturing in detail at great length / ramming down throat |
Unassuming and receptive |
Straw Dog
Rohini reads her poem “straw dog,” which strips away the delusion that our separate, individual selves are Real.