Ep #7: UPGRADING OUR TRADITION'S PAST IN THE PRESENT MOMENT | feat.Bhaktirasa

In this episode of The Free Radical Podcast, Swami Padmanabha and Bhaktirasa discuss the necessity of the moment to upgrade our tradition’s past by recognizing our current responsibility to stay alive in our present participation rather than rest on the past achievements of great stalwarts who came before us or arrest our progress because of the tradition’s past mistakes and immaturity. If the Sweet Absolute is always expanding, becoming ever more himself/herself, that creates an even a great necessity to continually adapt anew.

TUNE IN for more reflection on:

• OUR MISSING ELDERS - responsible elders listen to the upcoming generation and provide supportive guidance to address their concerns and help translate the tradition’s essence into a new language that keeps participation relevant and progressive. Elder’s can empower the next generation through trust.

• UPDATING OUR LANGUAGE isn’t just about learning the new catch phrases so we can attract more people, but it is about reconceiving traditional terms with deeper and broader understanding

• NOSTALGIA is not meant to be an institutionalized form of faith

• WHITEWASHING our historical downsides

• PRETENDING TO BE PERFECT because we do not accept that we are already UNCONDITIONALLY LOVED

• EVOLUTION does not speak of survival of the strongest but rather greater capacity to adapt and change

• BETWEEN DENYING AND BLAMING IS GRIEVING - and it might take an entire generation to grieve past traumas into a place of compassionate healing

AND MORE…

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