You can stop helping Putin win the war
Ukraine - Russia crisis is tragic and something we could never have imagined in this day and age but here we are.
In this episode, I talk about how our reaction to all the news and events is adding fuel to Putin in winning this war.
I also discuss how we all can consciously stop helping Putin win this war.
Listen to this short episode, and let me know in the comments what you think of it and what are you doing if anything to help people caught up amidst this crisis.
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Transcript
Welcome everyone to yet
Speaker:another episode of this show.
Speaker:You know, it's interesting
Speaker:the times
Speaker:we are in now, we're barely out of Covid
Speaker:and now Ukraine and Russia.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And it is what it is right.
Speaker:I don't want to get into the politics of.
Speaker:You know, Right and Wrong.
Speaker:We all know we can sense,
Speaker:you know, what is right or wrong.
Speaker:All I know is that the War
Speaker:may not be called in for.
Speaker:Right, it's not justified.
Speaker:But again,
Speaker:it's what it is, right?
Speaker:And as I was
Speaker:thinking of
Speaker:Ukraine, Russia, Putin and,
Speaker:you know, many other such leaders; todays
Speaker:leaders, modern day leaders,
Speaker:you know, we end up questioning like,
Speaker:why is it so hard?
Speaker:Like, how can they decide such things?
Speaker:And it's easy.
Speaker:If you watch news constantly,
Speaker:it's easy to get scared,
Speaker:you know?
Speaker:Yeah, and be fearful about
Speaker:what's gonna happen next.
Speaker:In fact.
Speaker:Yesterday, only I was speaking
Speaker:to my father,
Speaker:who is in India,
Speaker:and he was telling me, you know
Speaker:that the news are saying
Speaker:that there may be
Speaker:attacks on UK and maybe UK
Speaker:will get into the fight.
Speaker:And you know, if that happens,
Speaker:you must return home as soon as possible.
Speaker:And.
Speaker:And
Speaker:I don't know
Speaker:whether it will happen or not,
Speaker:but I know that
Speaker:the news are just overwhelming.
Speaker:They are just boring and making,
Speaker:you know, something microscopic
Speaker:look such huge,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:and I'm not denying that there are,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:people are suffering in Ukraine.
Speaker:There is what is happening in Ukraine.,by
Speaker:all means, it's not justifiable.
Speaker:You cannot put your head around and say
Speaker:it's OK. At least
Speaker:where, from where I sit and stand.
Speaker:I cannot.
Speaker:But as I was thinking about it
Speaker:and I was watching all the news negative,
Speaker:all the news
Speaker:about people
Speaker:who are protesting against,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:Russia and Putin
Speaker:and the police
Speaker:in all the countries rallying up to ,
Speaker:you know, create policies or, you know,
Speaker:declare Russia as war crimes and all that
Speaker:which again,
Speaker:not getting into the politics
Speaker:is also creating negative, right?
Speaker:I was thinking.
Speaker:That, you know, all that negative
Speaker:is just feeding
Speaker:the monster and making
Speaker:that monster bigger than that it is.
Speaker:All the negative.
Speaker:And if you keep hitting,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:I almost want to say "Don't HATE Putin
Speaker:because he's going to thrive on it".
Speaker:That monster, that energy,
Speaker:you know, thrives on that hate.
Speaker:Think of it.
Speaker:You me,
Speaker:anybody you know, anybody I know.
Speaker:You know, the pets we have, the animals.
Speaker:We know everything in this existence,
Speaker:If you boil it down to the micro level,
Speaker:its ENERGY
Speaker:right to the smallest cells, atoms
Speaker:it is just energy.
Speaker:Everything is energy,
Speaker:you know, the water, the sun,
Speaker:the air, the food we eat.
Speaker:Everything is energy.
Speaker:And what we are doing, even this speaking
Speaker:you listening is energy,
Speaker:it's the
Speaker:transformation of energy
Speaker:from one form to another.
Speaker:And that's all
Speaker:is happening in
Speaker:this existence, is
Speaker:just from one form of energy
Speaker:to another form of energy, right
Speaker:?
Speaker:And we all have been given
Speaker:every day a limited set of energy,
Speaker:every day
Speaker:we wake up
Speaker:with a certain amount of energy
Speaker:and we may spend it all
Speaker:or we may spend it some,
Speaker:but we have been given
Speaker:limited amount of energy
Speaker:in a day to spend and use, right?
Speaker:Yes, we often focus on time
Speaker:that we have limited time,
Speaker:but we're actually in reality.
Speaker:We have limited energy.
Speaker:Time is what humans created, right?
Speaker:Time is a
Speaker:construct of
Speaker:humans, whereas
Speaker:energy has been given to us.
Speaker:Energy is what keeps us alive.
Speaker:Everything is energy right?
Speaker:And we have a limited amount of it
Speaker:to spend every day.
Speaker:Right,
Speaker:our thoughts, our emotions.
Speaker:This is all energy.
Speaker:And whenever we focus our mind,
Speaker:wherever we've put our attention on.
Speaker:We spend that energy on that thing.
Speaker:So if you are thinking about
Speaker:something nice,
Speaker:somebody you love,
Speaker:something you didn't pass.
Speaker:Or some holiday that you want to go.
Speaker:Your attitude
Speaker:like you're
Speaker:spending your attention on thinking about
Speaker:just spending your energy there.
Speaker:Your allergy is being expended
Speaker:in the form of thoughts
Speaker:and emotions you having for that.
Speaker:So anything that you think
Speaker:puts your attention on.
Speaker:You are spending that energy
Speaker:on that thing.
Speaker:Now that could be something nice
Speaker:or something you don't like.
Speaker:Maybe it's forward.
Speaker:Maybe something happened in the morning.
Speaker:Maybe somebody said
Speaker:something in the meeting.
Speaker:Maybe it's news.
Speaker:Maybe it's Putin.
Speaker:Maybe it's by then.
Speaker:Whatever it is, right doesn't matter.
Speaker:Maybe it's more.
Speaker:Do maybe stop
Speaker:whoever you want to spend your energy on.
Speaker:Maybe it's a wife, children,
Speaker:but.
Speaker:Whatever you are
Speaker:putting your attention on,
Speaker:it is taking that analogy, or let's say
Speaker:you had 100 units of energy and a day
Speaker:you're spending your energy
Speaker:of that 100 units
Speaker:on something like that,
Speaker:something could be put in there,
Speaker:something could be Ukraine,
Speaker:that something could be a work,
Speaker:that something could be a family.
Speaker:Whatever you're doing,
Speaker:you're spending that money out,
Speaker:that units of energy out.
Speaker:The question is,
Speaker:how do you spend it consciously
Speaker:or is somebody stealing, right?
Speaker:When news, when social media,
Speaker:when your friends, you or a boss
Speaker:who is bully or a customer
Speaker:who is yelling at you or whatever, right?
Speaker:Somebody
Speaker:grabbing your attention,
Speaker:taking your attention away from you.
Speaker:They are stealing that energy from you
Speaker:because you're not consciously giving,
Speaker:because you're reacting.
Speaker:It is not a response.
Speaker:It's not a conscious response
Speaker:that you're doing.
Speaker:So in a way, it's being stolen.
Speaker:It's being robbed out of you,
Speaker:and you're not even aware.
Speaker:Let's put this analogy into two frames
Speaker:for easier
Speaker:understanding, there's positive
Speaker:there's a negative right.
Speaker:Let's see
Speaker:what whatever Putin is doing
Speaker:is all negative, right?
Speaker:We don't like it.
Speaker:Everybody is against it.
Speaker:It's negative.
Speaker:It's war is skill sets suffering.
Speaker:It's just not needed, right?
Speaker:And it's negative.
Speaker:So all those decisions
Speaker:are coming out of that.
Speaker:Negative energy
Speaker:is creating something negative.
Speaker:And here we are,
Speaker:we are reading the social media,
Speaker:which is being negative
Speaker:about all that negative is being done.
Speaker:And then we are creating
Speaker:negative thoughts
Speaker:that are resulting in negative emotions
Speaker:and more negative and negative negative.
Speaker:Look, how big is the negative getting
Speaker:through the SATs, science
Speaker:or math, negative
Speaker:and negative makes positive.
Speaker:It just grows
Speaker:right was Putin's negative
Speaker:and this is our negative.
Speaker:And now it's this big.
Speaker:This is why his timing on
Speaker:all the hate that people media
Speaker:everybody is giving him
Speaker:because it's just getting
Speaker:bigger, bigger, bigger.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:And we,
Speaker:you know, break at some point,
Speaker:it may just burst out, but right now
Speaker:is becoming such a big thing.
Speaker:And that is why it is important to
Speaker:consciously think of
Speaker:what you're doing with your energy.
Speaker:The let's have a radical idea
Speaker:actually is not radical, it's radical
Speaker:to say it now,
Speaker:but it has been shown and proven
Speaker:throughout the ages.
Speaker:You know, thousands of years ago,
Speaker:all the mistakes
Speaker:and the ways
Speaker:beings that walked through this hole
Speaker:have talked about it
Speaker:as often in all over scriptures as see
Speaker:instead of focusing their energy.
Speaker:On hearing Putin, how about love Ukraine
Speaker:or how about sending some
Speaker:love to Putin?
Speaker:The had soles lately
Speaker:far out
Speaker:to love somebody who is doing all that
Speaker:chaos right,
Speaker:who is creating all the mess.
Speaker:And I understand it right?
Speaker:You have to be at certain
Speaker:conscious levels to be able to do that.
Speaker:But for a minute,
Speaker:for just entertaining me, for just this
Speaker:moment, few just think of it.
Speaker:Dan is creating.
Speaker:All the negative energy, right?
Speaker:All the West mess, mess,
Speaker:if we start sending some love that side
Speaker:and form of avatars, emotion and energy
Speaker:and just create some love there.
Speaker:So the negative.
Speaker:War mass negative.
Speaker:Our response
Speaker:prayers love positive flight
Speaker:when they collide, it's just got a
Speaker:it's not going to grow up, it's going to.
Speaker:Help bring this negative, right?
Speaker:And I know it seems so far out,
Speaker:it seems airy fairy.
Speaker:Trust me, it works like people
Speaker:who are consciously
Speaker:doing that looks.
Speaker:You know, this is why Mother Teresa
Speaker:now never went in a
Speaker:rally against the law
Speaker:or rally against violence.
Speaker:She was always there in our rally
Speaker:in Forbes, so she was always on
Speaker:the positive side of things
Speaker:rather than being engaged in something.
Speaker:Because when you being
Speaker:against something,
Speaker:you are just creating
Speaker:negative and negative,
Speaker:it just thrives on it.
Speaker:So all these leaders thrive on ride
Speaker:and other thing to think of her
Speaker:as somebody who was acting like this,
Speaker:like Putin, is just beautiful.
Speaker:Was just afraid
Speaker:of losing something, right?
Speaker:The thing is the buildings,
Speaker:the more days of the world,
Speaker:they are afraid.
Speaker:Why else will you create the hate?
Speaker:You only create hate
Speaker:because you lack love.
Speaker:You know Lao Tzu says,
Speaker:"Love is a decision,
Speaker:it's not an emotion ".
Speaker:That means you can decide to love.
Speaker:I am not sayin love
Speaker:Putin's decision of war, love war.
Speaker:I'm saying just send love to Putin.
Speaker:What do you do when somebody is sick?
Speaker:You give them love, right?
Speaker:What do you do when somebody is afraid?
Speaker:Give them love.
Speaker:Right, that's
Speaker:the only thing that conquers.
Speaker:That man
Speaker:sitting in there is afraid, is sick,
Speaker:so send love.
Speaker:I also wanted to read some quotes
Speaker:before I end this episode
Speaker:with what I wrote.
Speaker:Rumi says "Love is the bridge
Speaker:between you and everything".
Speaker:He also said
Speaker:"Through love, bitter things seem sweet;
Speaker:through love
Speaker:bits of copper are made Gold".
Speaker:You know, if you cannot give love,
Speaker:if you cannot send love.
Speaker:How about stop
Speaker:spending your negative energy
Speaker:and emotions, reactions to that,
Speaker:do something positive with whatever
Speaker:you're feeling?
Speaker:You know, donate to a charity
Speaker:that's supporting Ukraine,
Speaker:you know, create videos,
Speaker:create awareness, helps
Speaker:the people
Speaker:of Ukraine in your own ways, right?
Speaker:I've seen so many incredible things
Speaker:being done on social media
Speaker:to support those
Speaker:causes to help the people
Speaker:on the ground other than just seeing
Speaker:within is all the negative stuff.
Speaker:Everything that makes you afraid,
Speaker:hateful, angry, just totally, you know,
Speaker:already give it a break and maybe
Speaker:look at things
Speaker:that people are doing to make it better.
Speaker:Help them,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:by contributing
Speaker:your time, money and friendship,
Speaker:whatever you can.
Speaker:And that probably is a better way
Speaker:to handle the situation.
Speaker:So I'll end this episode.
Speaker:But just this little piece of writing
Speaker:that I thought about this morning
Speaker:while meditating and hopefully.
Speaker:It reaches you out in the place
Speaker:that it reached me today.
Speaker:Hate cannot win hate,
Speaker:only love can.
Speaker:Hate cannot cure
Speaker:sickness, only Love can.
Speaker:Hate cannot remove
Speaker:fear., only love can.
Speaker:And hate
Speaker:cannot create freedom,
Speaker:only love can.
Speaker:For when you love,
Speaker:And when you give love.
Speaker:You are one
Speaker:with who you truly are.
Speaker:So give love, give love,
Speaker:give love.
Speaker:Thank You.
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