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Lucky’s ears and tail are tucked tight. Intermittent shivers sweep her body. Her eyes dart between us knowing one or another is about to sound scary.
Her favorite commercial music intervenes. A happy dog dances across the screen. Lucky jumps up and barks with all her heart and we suddenly remember how to laugh after which we quickly change the channel. Tomorrow is a new day. But tonight, we can at least make one dog happy.
Bonus Excerpt from Fierce with Age
Ram Dass teaches a heavy curriculum
If somebody is a problem for you, it’s not that they should change, it’s that you need to change. If they’re a problem for themselves that’s their karma, if they’re causing you trouble that’s your problem on yourself. So, in other words when Christ is crucified, he says “forgive them, they don’t know what they’re doing”, they’re not a problem for him, he’s trying to get them out of being a problem for themselves, because he’s clear. Your job is to clear yourself. In ideal situations you would clear yourself within the situation, but very often it’s too thick and you can’t do that…
If I’m not appreciated, that’s your problem that you don’t appreciate me. Unless I need your love, then it’s my problem. So my needs are what are giving you the power over me. Those people’s power over you to take you out of your equanimity and love and consciousness has to do with your own attachments and clingings of mind. That’s your work on yourself, that’s where you need to meditate more, it’s where you need to reflect more, it’s where you need a deeper philosophical framework, it’s where you need to cultivate the witness more, it’s where you need to work on practicing opening your heart more in circumstances that aren’t optimum. This is your work. You were given a heavy curriculum, that’s it. There’s no blame, it’s not even wrong, it’s just what you’re given. You hear what I’m saying? It’s interesting. Can you all hear that one?
-Ram Dass, Summer 1989
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