Cooperation and tolerance are beautiful concepts... but what an ordeal they are to put into practice!

I'm seeing a lot of my patterns reflected back to me.  Here's an email I got a couple days ago:

it feels like you set out to do this thing and now because you are hitting resistance you are pissed.. ! and chucking your toys all over the shop..  (just my vibe)   man dont expect the army to rally just because you got a website together..

Part of my response:

Thanks for the feedback.  yes, I sometimes feel frustrated and angry....  I think the World Friend Adi Da once said that in response to the demands of cooperative community, we are always trying to either 1) withdraw, 2) get angry, or 3) try to control people (including suppressing people's vitality).  I'm definitely not free of these three strategies.  I do see how this is also what's going on in the world.

then got this response back:

i was thinking after i wrote to you how extraordinary it is that every time we take on a service we get a ton of reflection in those areas..  i remembered when a group of us started working with Not two is peace and became in some real ways reflections of everything that was not !

 Thanks for your generosity in showing us these communications.
 I think that many of the difficulties in cooperation happen because people are lacking the context of prior unity in which to have a conversation about their issues.
 Difficulties with cooperation show up in the areas of conflict both between religions and within religions. It could be said that religious conflicts constitute one of the biggest threats to the world, because they form the basis of wars, in the Middle East and elsewhere.
 If religious conflicts are one of the biggest threats in the world, then they qualify as an issue that we all have in common, and therefore should be addressed in the Global Cooperative Forum.
 One way this could happen, is for parties who have issues or conflicts with each other, to have their conversation in the Forum, with people who have affirmed prior unity listening in on their conversation, and helping to hold the intention for non-divisiveness, self-rightening and serving the interests of everybody all at once.
 
 
 

Anger for me is a huge stumbling block.  I try hard to understand anger my own and others.  When I talk to people I try not to arouse anger by talking around a point and then confronting it so the tension gets some release first.  This doesn't always take place or work, but it a good tool.  My lack of ego-transcendness leads to anger so it means I have to more thorough in Turning to my Heart-Master World Friend Adi Da.  The emotional backlash I feel when I get angry is extremely unpleasent and definitely not the feeling of Prior Unity.