Showing posts with label acceptance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acceptance. Show all posts

Monday, August 30, 2010

Accepting apologies

We say “its okay” when somebody has wronged us which energetically is allowing for the behavior to happen again.
In life there will always be times when we are affected by actions of another person. When this happens we often receive an apology more often than not we say ,”it’s alright” or “its okay” and by saying this we are allowing accepting and giving permission for the behavior to happen again. When say “thank you” or “I accept your apology,” we are forced to face our feeling rather than ignore them.
There are many of us who feel it is easier to brush off how we really feel than to express our discomfort with something that has happened to us. While this may initially seem like the best thing to do, what it really does is put into an unending patter of behavior. Since we are not honest with another person, we continue the cycle of letting them overstep our emotional limits time and again. By doing this we place ourselves in the position of victim. We can put an end to this karmic chain by first acknowledging to the other person we accept their request for forgiveness, often a simple “thank you” is enough. To truly create a greater sense of harmony in our relationship however we need to gently and with compassion express our concerns about what has transpired. By taking a deep breathe and calling upon the deepest part of our spirit we can usually find the right to say and verbalize them in a way that lets the other person recognize. The consequence of what they have done.
If we can remember that our response to others is important, we can begin to realize that trust and forgiveness go hand in hand. And we react in a way that engenders a great amount of honesty and candor we will establish a more  positive and empowering way of being  and interacting with others.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

the great Rakhi saga

Yesterday was Raksha bandhan,


It reminded me of my senior Dr.Jegadeeshan, he must be in some corner of Malaysia every rakhi brings back memories of him. He would be desolate on the day to quote him”I hate this festival-la, all girls turn up uh to tie rakhi, there are so many that I can’t lift my hand-la they don’t see-yah that it massacres my reputation as Casanova-la.”

Another classmate was thoroughly upset when he heard us saying that he was very brotherly.

The greatest bhaiyyaland festival, marketed by bollywood after Karwah chauth. This event has well supported by Archie’s, and any other commercial venture piggy riding on the great Indian culture, of bhaiyyaland.

My granddad told me no self respecting south Indian girl should tie a rakhi, considering that the south is a matriarchal and sometimes matrilineal society. Women are as educated as the men.

Another friend had another way of putting it, all the KMC and MIT crowd out there this was from Anupa Chaco she reckoned that the festival of Rakhi was there because our culture could not accept the platonic relationship between a man and woman. It had to be either the ever glorified holy brother-sister or the sexual kind.

Declaring XYZ is my Rakhi brother seem to make it all respectable.

Yet I can’t imagine tying a Rakhi to Manoj, he is my friend, probably with Anupa being far away my best one, trying to label this bonding into the bracket of bhaiyya-behen would be the ultimate insult of our friendship. Why is it so difficult to accept that someone is a friend, he or she is such a good friend, the person ceases to exist in physical form the person being male or female is irrelevant.

Why is it necessary to label bonding? Is it a way of re-enforcing boundaries that society binds us with?(after all the respectable society does not know of incest)

why can’t we just accept a good friend and thank god for the beautiful gift?