To GeorgeSon and all on satsangs and the role of the leader

[Guest guest]

GeorgeSon wrote:

 

Perhaps (I don't really know) controversial disharmonious posts are

also God's will. The moderator needs to use a high level of

discrimination. Amma said this very summer that we are a Satsang.

Let us slowly get away from the paradigm that this is just another

chat room...

 

 

Dear GeorgeSon and all ~ My computer has been at the doctors for a few days,

although I did go to the local cyber cafe and try to get this week's prayer

list sent out. I sincerely hope it did. If not I apologize to all and will

pick up with any names missed from last week as well as new names for this

week.

 

I have only belonged to one satsang, and that was the one in Washington, DC

~ a very large satsang. The Chair (moderator) of that satsang was not able to

keep petty arguments from breaking out, nor was this person able to keep

major conflagrations from happening. Yet still, it was a wonderful satsang.

Whenever people gather in groups, whether it be online of in the real world,

people are people, and none of us are perfect. I believe that we have as much

of a

responsibility as the moderator to keep disharmony from our satsang.

 

The most effective way of doing this, I believe, would be to simply not

respond to an inflammatory post, no matter what the subject. A response of any

kind is like putting a lighted match in a pile of paper, or even dynamite. It

will burn for awhile, or it may blow up!

 

The next most effective way, I believe, is that, if a back and forth

blame/flame dialog starts gaining momentum, again, ignore it. Instead write

posts we

feel are in keeping with what we want to experience here ~ harmony, grace,

kindness, friendship, support and the sharing of our love for Amma.

 

I have been in chat rooms where one person has disrupted the entire room.

Why? Because everyone starts responding to this person, and people start

responding to the responses, etc. This is exactly what has happened here. Let us

all pledge to simply ignore what we feel doesn't fit. Give the person the right

to say what (s)he will, but don't respond. With no response, sooner or later,

whatever is troublesome will dissipate.

 

And, from this point on, I am going to take my own advice and not say

another word on the subject. Jai Jai Ma ~ Linda