The basic idea is to investigate creative ways of using negativities positively.
Research stories come up with paradigms; make user-friendly presentations.
Greed
Capitalism is based on the idea that “One greedy man creates jobs for 100 people.” So greed is not bad. It can be used positively for creating abundance.
Greed can be used to create abundance.
Jealousy
Suppose there is a chairman of a fund-raising committee. She retires and is replaced by another who is jealous of her. This jealousy goads her to excel her former chairman.
Jealousy can create excellence.
Fear
A secure person is a lazy person. Fear of losing a job may promote a person to accept challenges, meet them, and excel.
Fear can be converted into performance by treating it as adventure, challenge, and rising up to it.
It creates alternate states of high energy.
Lust
Use it to promote articles as in advertisement, which arouses sexual desire but does not gratify it.
Eros is not bad; it is life. Sex is sacred.
Good to be admired, accepted, loved.
Neuroses can go if sex is accepted as a sacrament. Licentiousness can get rid of sex-related crimes. Sex workers should be called Goddesses—they offer their highest possession, themselves, to others. Valentines, orgies, Mardi Gras, marked festivals are great.
Pride
Pride in doing well allows one to compete with one’s own past performance and go beyond it.
“I am proud of you, my daughter.”
It is empowering to hear such things.
Pride can empower oneself.
As a compliment, it empowers others.
Possessiveness
A family cannot exist without possessiveness.
Possessiveness is one form of expressing deep love. Possessiveness as an expression of love pretending anger is a beautiful thing. If it curtails the freedom of others, it disempowers.
Possess, yet give freedom.
Grow like two tall trees, not in the shadow of each other.
Delusion
“I can’t live without you.”
This is an expression of love. It is not true, but it becomes true if you are caught up in it—like Laila and Majnu.
Recognising that delusion is okay if bounded by a time frame (say, less than a lifetime) is good.
Anger
Anger is seductive. It is self-justifying.
“I have a right to be angry.”
When you have a right to be angry, be angry.
Rather, pretending anger should be your choice.
Inside you are cool.
If you are really angry, it burns you—so it is useless.
Why does anger come?
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It comes out of not getting what you want.
→ Let go of the want; anger cannot stay. -
It comes out of helplessness, lack of power.
→ Be connected to the source of power, God. Then you can fight without anger. -
It comes out of worthlessness, lack of self-love.
→ Loving yourself removes anger. Beautify yourself; open yourself to be loved by others. That removes the roots of anger.
Vice and Virtue
Everyone has some vices and virtues.
Not feeling great about these things causes the ill health that comes out of them.
“Don’t feel guilty. Sin is remembering your past.”
“Don’t feel virtuous.”
You are what you are.
Not good. Not bad.
Amṛitanānda, 2014
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