You know,
There's so much talk about transformation that maybe some of us,
We might not know how to do it or how to allow it in Nuts and Bolts live life experience.
Well basically,
You know,
The Eastern sages would say that we're being faced with our minds all the time.
So what happens to us reflects our inner belief systems or you know,
Whether we trust life or not or how valuable we think we are,
How worthy of respect,
Whether we think people are basically good or bad,
That this will be reflected to us through our lives,
The events of our lives and how we respond to them is crucial.
So,
You know,
I'm here in India and I've experienced a small clearing,
Exactly this kind of thing.
You know,
For about seven years,
I've had a good relationship with a taxi driver,
He's a dear man,
He's got a couple of kids and you know,
He's gone the extra mile for me and I have,
You know,
Paid him really well.
And,
You know,
And more than that,
You know,
Helped him out a couple of times.
Anyway,
You know,
I'm in the ashram in India,
So with COVID,
I can't leave it.
So I asked the taxi driver to do an errand to pick up some fabric for me and he did happily,
But what he did was he overcharged me on the fabric and it was glaringly obvious it was not a mistake,
That it was intentional.
So I didn't say anything at the time,
Just because I was a little shocked.
And afterwards I was thinking to myself,
Huh,
This feelings of how I felt,
It reminded me of how I felt lots of times in life that basically it's not safe to go forward with your true kind of innocent energy that people will exploit,
That one's not really safe.
But,
You know,
I've gone through this so many times and this kind of clearing is so tiny compared to what I've gone through.
I mean,
I just,
It's nothing really,
But,
You know,
I did speak to him directly about it and said,
You know,
This is error.
And,
You know,
Again,
His first response was kind of to go,
Oh,
Ma'am,
What do you mean?
And he said it really strongly.
And it was obvious to me that many,
Many clients maybe had just stepped back and not bothered pursuing the whole thing.
It just gone,
Oh,
Well,
You know,
But I said,
I said,
You and I both know what's wrong and what you did.
Now,
You know,
He may be really short of money.
You know,
It could be that.
But it's an experience where I can't keep having him as a taxi driver because I can't have that.
I can't live with that kind of thing.
You know,
If he just come directly to me and said,
Look,
I need an extra 500 rupees,
I would have gone,
Sure.
But the twisted stuff I just can't handle.
So,
You know,
It rocked me a little bit,
Even though,
You know,
It's a small thing.
But I realized that it was real clearing around this.
Is it really safe to come forward in your true energy?
So this kind of thing happens over and over again.
And the interesting thing is that as a response to standing up to this dark energy,
Basically,
Which he was expressing.
Things have opened up for me and I'm working with more people.
It's just how it works.
OK,
I just wanted to spell it out in kind of a very human.
Way.
Like a nuts and bolts way.
And if you keep,
You know,
Staying with your experience and standing for yourself and self-respect and being good to other people,
But.
Being.
Respectful to yourself.
Your life will get better.
OK,
Bless your hearts.
