Week 5: Conscious Living & Politics

All right. Hello, everybody in the Cadresphere. Happy fifth Saturday of August. So it's a week, five in August. So one of those rare Saturdays where it's kind of really a different topic rather than the four. Right. That I do every week. And I thought what better topic to take on than politics? But I'm not really taking on politics, but it's more the fact that, I don't know if any of you noticed, but there's an election coming up. In fact, there's tons of elections that are coming up. And, you know, from this perspective of conscious living, from this perspective of like, how do we show up?

How do we show up in a thoughtful way? How do we show up in a meaningful way? You know, because this has nothing to do with what, quote unquote, side you're on, if you're on a side at all. It's more of like, for me, as I've been thinking about the politics, it's so easy to get into the US and them, it's so easy to get into the, they're crazy or we're crazy or they're this, they're wrong, we're right, they're this. And, you know, I think navigating that, it's almost like there's something about politics, right.

That makes people think, oh, but I'm right. But I'm right about this. Right. So what is, the funniest thing for me is to watch when one side in its righteousness because they're right, because they have justice on their side, because they have the truth on their side, then gives themselves permission to completely denigrate the other side, to completely criticize, to even, you know, to the point of violence, right. Because, you know, obviously if you believe in something so strongly and somebody else is opposed to you, then, well, violence should be, you know, violent words, violent thoughts, violent actions.

That should all be okay, right. That should, that should be appropriate. And so, like, the thing that I'm really thinking about, and I love these weekly live streams for me because they force me to think about how I show up, how I want to show up, how I'm going to show up. And so the question, like this Saturday for me during this live stream is really one that I've been looking at meditating on talking to others about for some time now. How can I show up during this political season in the most thoughtful way?

Like there are certain candidates that I have such strong feelings and judgments and thoughts about? And yet I've also learned in my recovery the value of praying for those people and not praying for them because I'm better than them, but really praying so that I can see who they are, see them with some degree of empathy. Now, there's others who respond, but Daniel.