Guest guest Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 With a subject line echoing Malati... A few thoughts on this latest debacle... what Ananthasree has called the wet blanket effect. Fractioning the primary group into three or four more groups -- Free Speech Zone, AmmaBhakti, Amma's Darling Children, etc. -- does not seem like it's going to eliminate conflict or keep the discourse flowing like the River of Love. I know I am among those who posted information about the ammawww.orgportal, which is a more moderated forum than an e-mail discussion list. So I hope this does not sound hypocritical. But if you need to take a break, just don't read The List for a while. I'm not sure the "delete" key suggestion some have offered as their method for coping is all that useful. I ended up setting up an alternative e-mail account, different from my regular communication register, so that I make a choice every time I decide to "go into Ammaworld." It's easy enough then to just exit out of that mailbox if there's some energy going on "in the room" that I can't handle "right now." However, the debate about parameters of acceptable topics seems, indeed, to be a recurrent enough theme over the last few months to ask this question: Keval, how long have you been moderator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Sometimes, it's good just to laugh!! Ammachi, "Prashanti " <ammasprashanti wrote: > > With a subject line echoing Malati... > > A few thoughts on this latest debacle... what Ananthasree has called the wet > blanket effect. > > Fractioning the primary group into three or four more groups -- Free Speech > Zone, AmmaBhakti, Amma's Darling Children, etc. -- does not seem like it's > going to eliminate conflict or keep the discourse flowing like the River of > Love. I know I am among those who posted information about the > ammawww.orgportal, which is a more moderated forum than an e-mail > discussion list. So > I hope this does not sound hypocritical. But if you need to take a break, > just don't read The List for a while. > > I'm not sure the "delete" key suggestion some have offered as their method > for coping is all that useful. I ended up setting up an alternative e-mail > account, different from my regular communication register, so that I make a > choice every time I decide to "go into Ammaworld." It's easy enough then to > just exit out of that mailbox if there's some energy going on "in the room" > that I can't handle "right now." > > However, the debate about parameters of acceptable topics seems, indeed, to > be a recurrent enough theme over the last few months to ask this question: > Keval, how long have you been moderator? > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Its always good just 2 laugh! - otoma Ammachi Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:00 PM Re: All this leaving is making me cry Sometimes, it's good just to laugh!! Ammachi, "Prashanti " <ammasprashanti wrote: > > With a subject line echoing Malati... > > A few thoughts on this latest debacle... what Ananthasree has called the wet > blanket effect. > > Fractioning the primary group into three or four more groups -- Free Speech > Zone, AmmaBhakti, Amma's Darling Children, etc. -- does not seem like it's > going to eliminate conflict or keep the discourse flowing like the River of > Love. I know I am among those who posted information about the > ammawww.orgportal, which is a more moderated forum than an e-mail > discussion list. So > I hope this does not sound hypocritical. But if you need to take a break, > just don't read The List for a while. > > I'm not sure the "delete" key suggestion some have offered as their method > for coping is all that useful. I ended up setting up an alternative e-mail > account, different from my regular communication register, so that I make a > choice every time I decide to "go into Ammaworld." It's easy enough then to > just exit out of that mailbox if there's some energy going on "in the room" > that I can't handle "right now." > > However, the debate about parameters of acceptable topics seems, indeed, to > be a recurrent enough theme over the last few months to ask this question: > Keval, how long have you been moderator? > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 > > Fractioning the primary group into three or four > more groups -- Free Speech > Zone, AmmaBhakti, Amma's Darling Children, etc. -- > does not seem like it's > going to eliminate conflict or keep the discourse > flowing like the River of > Love. I know I am among those who posted > information about the > ammawww.orgportal, which is a more moderated forum > than an e-mail > discussion list. So > I hope this does not sound hypocritical. But if you > need to take a break, > just don't read The List for a while. Good idea.. and I would recommend subscribing to the ammawww.org forum if you want something that is close to being an official organ of MA Center/Math. Amma Free Speech.. Amma's Darling Children... Amma Bhakti.. who can keep track of them all? there seems to be a for everyone and his gerbil.. anyone can set one up, just like anyone and his gerbil can get a blogspot account and waste bandwidth with self-indulgent musings.. I think the gerbils would provide more stimulating sharings than many of the human bloggers :0 > > > However, the debate about parameters of acceptable > topics seems, indeed, to > be a recurrent enough theme over the last few months > to ask this question: > Keval, how long have you been moderator? > Almost two years I think.. inherited this job sometime in 2004... maybe just before Amma's first-ever Toronto program in the summer of 04 Keval Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2006 Report Share Posted August 27, 2006 Interesting to go to the Bay Area ashram last night, after catching a matinee screening of DARSHAN: The Embrace in San Rafael, Marin County, and talk to people in person about their decisions to . Maybe that's easier to do for people who live close to the M.A. Center and feel very plugged in to the sadhana-process. Lots of people had made beautiful clay Ganeshas for the festival today, and they were drying on plates on top of one of Amma's little peetham platforms. Watching them, I had a similar experience to one of the nights of Arati in NYC last month, when six people from the Satsang were waving the flame on behalf of all of us, and the reflected light in their faces was just so... purifying? shining? The Maha Ganapati Temple in Flushing felt both incredibly far away and right there. Bhajans were just gorgeous, and there was a beautiful Devi Bhava sari draped over Mother's Chair that looked to be the same violet-lavender colour She wore in Boston (from the picture on Ananthasree's website). Dinner was scrumptious and the chai not too sweet and the payasam perfect. And it was wonderful to see old friends from Summer Tour and previous years of living in California. And meet new friends and friends-of-friends and marvel at the simultaneous collectivity and individuality of being part of this spiritually seeking group. We had a long drive back up to Sonoma County, so left a bit after 10 and couldn't stay up until Midnight singing to Devi. As for the movie, it was so perfect to see the film in California, and be able to go right from it to the Ashram. Amma said something very interesting in one part of the film, about her reluctance to discuss "the Guru-Disciple" relationship. Or rather, the limits She places on talking too much about other Gurus. Paraphrasing - {Let's say you go to a library and take out two books. And both the books are bad. Nevertheless, you can't say on the basis of that experience that all books are bad. So that is why Amma does not like to discuss these things.} Because worldly people do make such comparisons. I think another sister brought up this line before from the movie, perhaps I do not recall it perfectly. loveprashanti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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