Still here in 2021

It is surprising how easy it into get used to something that is not what we’d like. How we adapt. And sometimes this feels like just survival.

We live in uncertain times and when life is like that, when you don’t know what the next hour will bring let alone the next day. When past and future seems so oposite. We have only one place of sanctuary. NOW. Which doesn’t mean be a goldfish. Just as detachment for which we are all trying to understand doesn’t mean be completely self centred. It means ‘detached involvement’. You can not not be part of the world. We are all connected. So even if you are stuck at home wondering what to do, how you can help. Smile, think of others. Just those two things will help.

We have another conference on the 17th and last conference I talked about the first words of each chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. I have worked a little with my NY friend Zoe who is infinitely better at Sanskrit than me. This is what we have come up with.

In the field of dharma to him better this renunciation not depending on, in me what this again, as a kindness to me thus nature highest whose roots are above, fearlessness who of renunciation

And trying to do something with it:

In the field of dharma, to him better this renunciation that does not depend on me. What is this again? As a kindness to me, thus nature is the highest, whose roots are above, for one who is fearless of renunciation.