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My mother used to put me on the washing machine when I was a baby and wouldn't go to sleep.There is something soothing about the sound of clothes washing. I have always found it soothing.
Just as an aside, I used this story with a class of teenagers and some of them thought the wolf story was subliminally racist. That made me wonder if the story was ‘genuine’, as its positioning of binary opposites suddenly struck me as being suspect. In short, I found a series of posts that suggested the story originated with Billy Graham the Christian evangelist, and not the Cherokee nation. In any case there’s another version of the story (which may or may not be American Indian) in which the moral is to feed not one, but both wolves. Maybe that ties to family, too? Acceptance of the prodigal.I have found the answer to mean both literal and related to getting hold of emotions. Recieving for example, when I needed to work literally with my team to its best ability. In addition, I have received the answer when my thoughts have been flying here there and everywhere.
A family environment is a busy place where everyone mostly is doing there own thing or tasks. Maybe at dinner times people pull together for a common goal, I have actually received the answer when it has been both literally and things I should be working on within myself emotionally.
For example, if you have a lot to achieve, then getting emotional about the ups and downs is not going to help I suppose.
James DeKorne in this instance talks about pulling the ego and the higher self together. Or not letting one rule the other, I recently, watched a video where a Rabbi I follow on YouTube talks about how there is a constant battle between these two souls earthly and heavenly as he puts it. Pulling and constantly tugging at each other. The metaphor he uses is like the way a flame is connected to a candle. The flame reaching up constantly while the candle being the body keep the higher soul grounded.
Also, the American Indian story of the two wolves. I also listened to a Guru on YouTube talking about how negative thoughts are actually real poison in your body.
An old friend from school who has always been quietly spoken, never really had a drug problem maybe smoked too much weed for a while. The point is he has always been quietly spoken however, people know at the same time he is not a push over. He is the same as me on many levels, its just he is more quiet in general. He is not perfect by any means, however emotional is not something people would call him I do not believe. When he has a birthday you should see the amount of people that wish him well on social media . People respect or like the modest and people who are not overbearing naturally or in general.
When a family or team works together it can be a very powerful thing and so can controlling your emotions consistently.
I know all these things, but when it comes to the test thats when it gets hard.
I am guessing you need tools and triggers if you battle with this stuff.
Also in a literal sense, a family will use tools as well to make things work.
Synchronicity is the key for me in the answer.
PS Here is the two wolves story
That's absurd. The story is about thoughts/feelings/urges not people. The story is about which to feed. We have a choice all the time. I can dwell on unhappy things or not. I can nourish either what is destructive in me or not. The day people aren't allowed to tell a story about feeding positive or negative emotions because they are racist is the day I may as well leave the planet for good. The teenagers missed the point and aimed to plaster their given ideology all over it misunderstanding it completely. Someone can have both highly destructive and highly constructive motivations. Race doesn't come into it all.Just as an aside, I used this story with a class of teenagers and some of them thought the wolf story was subliminally racist.
Suspect ? What do you think Yi is based on if not binary opposites? Yin lines and yang lines. Are binary opposites not allowed any more. I think it's fine for Steve to post that story and there's nothing racist about it it's just saying clearly that you have a choice, (to some extent anyway I'm not saying it's 100% applicable) over which emotions and urges you encourage to grow within yourselfThat made me wonder if the story was ‘genuine’, as its positioning of binary opposites suddenly struck me as being suspect.
But that completely misses the point. The story is about thoughts, emotions, motivations not people. The story has nothing to do with accepting the prodigal, there is no prodigal, it's about thoughts/emotions and motivations in your own head.In any case there’s another version of the story (which may or may not be American Indian) in which the moral is to feed not one, but both wolves. Maybe that ties to family, too? Acceptance of the prodigal.
Just as an aside, I used this story with a class of teenagers and some of them thought the wolf story was subliminally racist. That made me wonder if the story was ‘genuine’, as its positioning of binary opposites suddenly struck me as being suspect. In short, I found a series of posts that suggested the story originated with Billy Graham the Christian evangelist, and not the Cherokee nation. In any case there’s another version of the story (which may or may not be American Indian) in which the moral is to feed not one, but both wolves. Maybe that ties to family, too? Acceptance of the profigalI have found the answer to mean both literal and related to getting hold of emotions. Recieving for example, when I needed to work literally with my team to its best ability. In addition, I have received the answer when my thoughts have been flying here there and everywhere.
A family environment is a busy place where everyone mostly is doing there own thing or tasks. Maybe at dinner times people pull together for a common goal, I have actually received the answer when it has been both literally and things I should be working on within myself emotionally.
For example, if you have a lot to achieve, then getting emotional about the ups and downs is not going to help I suppose.
James DeKorne in this instance talks about pulling the ego and the higher self together. Or not letting one rule the other, I recently, watched a video where a Rabbi I follow on YouTube talks about how there is a constant battle between these two souls earthly and heavenly as he puts it. Pulling and constantly tugging at each other. The metaphor he uses is like the way a flame is connected to a candle. The flame reaching up constantly while the candle being the body keep the higher soul grounded.
Also, the American Indian story of the two wolves. I also listened to a Guru on YouTube talking about how negative thoughts are actually real poison in your body.
An old friend from school who has always been quietly spoken, never really had a drug problem maybe smoked too much weed for a while. The point is he has always been quietly spoken however, people know at the same time he is not a push over. He is the same as me on many levels, its just he is more quiet in general. He is not perfect by any means, however emotional is not something people would call him I do not believe. When he has a birthday you should see the amount of people that wish him well on social media . People respect or like the modest and people who are not overbearing naturally or in general.
When a family or team works together it can be a very powerful thing and so can controlling your emotions consistently.
I know all these things, but when it comes to the test thats when it gets hard.
I am guessing you need tools and triggers if you battle with this stuff.
Also in a literal sense, a family will use tools as well to make things work.
Synchronicity is the key for me in the answer.
PS Here is the two wolves story
That's absurd. The story is about thoughts/feelings/urges not people. The story is about which to feed. We have a choice all the time. I can dwell on unhappy things or not. I can nourish either what is destructive in me or not. The day people aren't allowed to tell a story about feeding positive or negative emotions because they are racist is the day I may as well leave the planet for good. The teenagers missed the point and aimed to plaster their given ideology all over it misunderstanding it completely. Someone can have both highly destructive and highly constructive motivations. Race doesn't come into it all.
Suspect ? What do you think Yi is based on if not binary opposites? Yin lines and yang lines. Are binary opposites not allowed any more. I think it's fine for Steve to post that story and there's nothing racist about it it's just saying clearly that you have a choice, (to some extent anyway I'm not saying it's 100% applicable) over which emotions and urges you encourage to grow within yourself
But that completely misses the point. The story is about thoughts, emotions, motivations not people. The story has nothing to do with accepting the prodigal, there is no prodigal, it's about thoughts/emotions and motivations in your own head.
Trojina, I’m sorry you consider my comment ‘absurd’, it wasn’t meant in that way at all. I would have made more sense perhaps if I’d added the relevant source material, and it was very tangential. It wasn’t meant to be an attack on Steve. I can’t find the additional story now - and am too busy to look - it’s an interesting version - and I have absolutely no idea why you’ve reacted so strongly. I’m sorry you consider my intelligent and incisive 12-year old pupils in a philosophy lesson ‘absurd’ also. At the end of that philosophy lesson they reflected - without attacking each other or calling each other ‘absurd’ - that the lesson of the story was about acceptance of the ‘dark brother’ rather than rejecting him. That was their take. Absurd? No I don’t think so. We weren’t discussing it in the context of the I Ching which IS binary at base but moves fluidly between those rather than fixing them as permanent states. Apologies if my meandering thoughts were unhelpful to the present discussion.That's absurd. The story is about thoughts/feelings/urges not people. The story is about which to feed. We have a choice all the time. I can dwell on unhappy things or not. I can nourish either what is destructive in me or not. The day people aren't allowed to tell a story about feeding positive or negative emotions because they are racist is the day I may as well leave the planet for good. The teenagers missed the point and aimed to plaster their given ideology all over it misunderstanding it completely. Someone can have both highly destructive and highly constructive motivations. Race doesn't come into it all.
Suspect ? What do you think Yi is based on if not binary opposites? Yin lines and yang lines. Are binary opposites not allowed any more. I think it's fine for Steve to post that story and there's nothing racist about it it's just saying clearly that you have a choice, (to some extent anyway I'm not saying it's 100% applicable) over which emotions and urges you encourage to grow within yourself
But that completely misses the point. The story is about thoughts, emotions, motivations not people. The story has nothing to do with accepting the prodigal, there is no prodigal, it's about thoughts/emotions and motivations in your own head.
Then they came to an incorrect conclusion as I stated in my post earlier. The story isn't about a 'dark brother' at all did you think it was ? The two wolves represent our destructive urges and our constructive urges. It has nothing to do with accepting dark brothers as other people, it's sides within our own selves. So I think you may have misled them about the lesson of the story. It's as if you think the story is about 2 actual wolves/people rather than different sides of a person's own nature. It's a metaphor about our inner life it's not about one good person and one bad person.that the lesson of the story was about acceptance of the ‘dark brother’ rather than rejecting him. That was their take. Absurd? No I don’t think so. We weren’t discussing it in the context of the I Ching which IS binary at base but
Clarity,
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PO Box 6945,
London.
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