This Polish proverb, Not my Circus, Not my Monkeys, elicits correspondence from concerned friends ... quite properly raising questions about our duties as citizens to try to make the world better .... and this is indeed tricky to untangle ... a lot of it is in a mess just now, if the dominant narrative is to be believed ...
I suppose Jiddu Krishnamurti's words resonate at a philosophical level: You want to know my secret? I don't mind what happens. This is stepping out of all dramas, yet K was deeply concerned about all the suffering in the world and his great achievements include schools and retreat centres worldwide as well as a powerful and liberating message of Love as the ultimate ....
The daily dramas play out at all levels and discerning which are for us and how to play which role is delicate work. Being drawn into a drama which angers us, indicates that personal lessons are to be learnt .... and it seems that energy transfers occur during the power games we play ... and how to discern the verity of dramas to which we are invited? All is rarely as it seems and giving our energy carelessly, at the behest of the crowd, taking sides in simplified binary fights, may not serve our best interests or the collective either ...
Info comes through from the Pachamama Alliance ... advice from the wise ones in the Amazon ... since it is the dream of capitalism and conspicuous consumption that is at the root of the current crises, work with better dreams ... the same advice came from Buckminster Fuller and others over recent decades ... the way to change the existing reality is not to oppose it (which energises it), but to build a better reality ... this is our work ... reforming capitalism hardly fits this new story ...
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