When we apply empathic understanding to the way we view ourselves and others and discipline ourselves to align our actions to our values in every present moment, among other pleasant results, we will create peace, love, and unity.
Expectation creates an anticipatory “reality” that distorts our experiencing. Imagine you are expecting to take a sip of water but someone replaces it with orange juice without you noticing. You take a sip and the water tastes foul! The ability to understand probabilities and plan to work toward outcomes is a skill of the human mind. But when this skill is applied to create expectation, it loses its utility and instead merely becomes a nuisance—yet another way our egoic habits try to control moments and bottle happiness. Be mindful of your expectations and why you hold them. Are they truly useful? #spirituality #yoga #buddhism #meditation #expectations #ego
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An innocent college student was detained and surrounded by 8 cops with guns because he was picking up trash on his own property.
Boulder, CO — Last year, American cops killed 1,183 people. Many of these people were unarmed, innocent, and some of them were even children. Most of the police officers involved in these killings will never be held accountable due to a system that perpetuates this behavior. The disturbing video below shows just how ridiculous police interactions in the ostensible land of the free have become as eight cops surrounded a black man and nearly shot him—for picking up trash in his own front yard. Now, the cop who unlawfully detained the innocent man has resigned to avoid accountability.
Officials confirmed Thursday that John Smyly violated policy when he threatened and drew his gun in an attempt to arrest 26-year-old Zayd Atkinson in March. Atkinson had committed no crime, had harmed no one, and was providing a community service by removing trash from the apartment complex in which he lived.
What’s more, no one had called police to report a suspicious person and Smyly had no reason at all to make contact with him.
Despite being entirely innocent and aiding in the beautification of his neighborhood, Atkinson was approached by a Smyly because a black man picking up trash on his own property looked suspicious to him.
“I couldn’t help but notice you sitting on the patio behind this building …I’m just checking to make sure you have the right to be here,” Smyly tells Atkinson in the newly released body camera footage.
Atkinson then tells the officer that he lives in this building, is picking up trash and is a student at the University. But Smyly was not happy with this response and continued to needlessly escalate the situation.
As the video shows, the officer approaches Atkinson, telling him to “put the object down,” while the Atkinson replies “don’t f*cking tell me what to do,” and says, “I have a right to be doing this.”
“Sit down or you’re probably gonna get tased in a second” the officer ordered Atkinson, claiming a trash grabber was a weapon.
“Why?”
“Because you have a weapon … put it down and comply with my order!”
“You’re an idiot,” Atkinson is heard saying on the video. “Why would you think that you can tase me? I’m freakin’ picking up trash on my property, which is where I live! I’m not doing anything illegal and you’re not gonna [f**king] tase me, Officer.”
Instead of realizing that Atkinson had committed no crime and was entirely innocent, Smyly called for back up. Not realizing that he was harassing an innocent man for picking up trash, Smyly escalated the situation.
“Disappointment is the other side of expectation. Without expectation there can be no disappointment and so the question is, how to live in the world without expectation? In Dhamma training we are encouraged to cultivate the ‘don’t know mind’ as this is the way to live in the world and harmonise with the ever changing possibilities of life without struggling. 'Not knowing’ is the reality of every moment and all beings meet the experience of life changing suddenly because of one, often seemingly innocent moment that they could not have foreseen or prepared for. So, the idea that everything will work out well or even its opposite, that nothing will go well for us, are in the end, only ideas and aspects of mind based in our own personal ways of thinking. They have no more reality than we give them. The truth is that we don’t know what can happen in the next moment and certainly not in the next five weeks, months or years. Therefore, the 'don’t know mind’ is our protection against sufferings as it aligns us with reality. So, when we ask what will be the outcome of a particular moment in our future, we can answer with complete honesty, ‘I don’t know’. Now we can be in peace and allow things to take their natural course. We can interact, do our best for the result we would like, but nothing can ever be guaranteed. In a universe of infinite possibilities getting what we want is never a sure thing, so relax, you didn’t do anything wrong, it’s just life. I hope that helps May all beings be happy.”
— Michael Kewley - Disappointment is the other side of expectation.
U.S. backed coups in Latin America: Costa Rica 1948, Guatemala 1954, Paraguay 1954, Brazil 1964, Peru 1968, Chile 1973, Uruguay 1973, Argentina 1976, El Salvador 1979, Nicaragua 1981, Panama 1989 , Venezuela: 2002.
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