![Diane Tran, overachieving 17 year old, jailed and fined for truancy due to exhaustion. [Image from facebook.com/NoBullies]
“Diane Tran isn’t like most seventeen-year-old girls her age. Sure, there are many honors students taking dual credit U.S. History, dual credit English Literacy, College Algebra, and Spanish Language AP. Sure, there are some who work part time and full time jobs like Diane does at a dry cleaners and a wedding venue.
“But, since Diane’s parents have moved away, Diane does all of this to support herself and her two siblings.
“For a student facing these challenges, a teacher or authority figure should have reached out to her and made sure she didn’t slip through the cracks. Despite her situation, she’s not just an extraordinary worker and student, she’s an extraordinary human being with a fighting spirit.
“The reason why we should care about her is this: The state of Texas is sentencing a young girl to a night of jail for being too emotionally and physically exhausted to go to school. The institutions that are to provide resources to youth and ensure justice are instead punishing her like a criminal and fining her $100.
“The Judge in Diane’s case said he was making an example of her with this severe punishment. Diane is already an example of how people her age should be acting.”
The above is from the Petition: Honor Student Jailed for Missing School: Ask the judge to cancel her fine and sentencing](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ujf1TCnl1qb7cgao1_500.jpg)
Diane Tran, overachieving 17 year old, jailed and fined for truancy due to exhaustion. [Image from facebook.com/NoBullies]
“Diane Tran isn’t like most seventeen-year-old girls her age. Sure, there are many honors students taking dual credit U.S. History, dual credit English Literacy, College Algebra, and Spanish Language AP. Sure, there are some who work part time and full time jobs like Diane does at a dry cleaners and a wedding venue.
“But, since Diane’s parents have moved away, Diane does all of this to support herself and her two siblings.
“For a student facing these challenges, a teacher or authority figure should have reached out to her and made sure she didn’t slip through the cracks. Despite her situation, she’s not just an extraordinary worker and student, she’s an extraordinary human being with a fighting spirit.
“The reason why we should care about her is this: The state of Texas is sentencing a young girl to a night of jail for being too emotionally and physically exhausted to go to school. The institutions that are to provide resources to youth and ensure justice are instead punishing her like a criminal and fining her $100.
“The Judge in Diane’s case said he was making an example of her with this severe punishment. Diane is already an example of how people her age should be acting.”
The above is from the Petition: Honor Student Jailed for Missing School: Ask the judge to cancel her fine and sentencing
Rocks From Beach Catch Fire in Woman’s Pocket - San Clemente, CA - May 16, 2012 (by Sheilaaliens)
I love this Gangaji video because it goes to the very heart of what even the most sincerest of spiritual seekers will ultimately discover: the mind can hijack your discoveries and then use them in furtherance not of your Spirit but of the Ego. And it’s not as tricky as it sounds. It’s quite simple and this is the brilliance of it.
Off the top of my head, I think of non-duality, for example. I remember a time I was in meditation and I watched my thoughts and so I now have an experience of non-duality. So, then, in conversation with someone who says, “This is wrong. And that is correct.” My mind says, to me, “That is wrong. She is living in duality.” I’ve just done duality. I AM Non-duality and this means I encompass even duality; Of course I do.
A better example may be similar relatable experience from this video [that starts at about 16:00 in]. People who beat you over the head for peace, healing, and enlightenment; You know the kind… “Can’t we all just get along?” The ones you wanna ship off to Codependency Class, right? The people who hate conflict so bad they’re willing to extend their time and knowledge of how you should be for your own good. [Yes. YOU’RE own good. They are who is upset because it is for your own good.]
Gangaji calls this Spiritual Fascism. “So just ship your bad thoughts off to the concentration camps, right?” Wars are started in such ways. Internal wars as well as external wars. Even our own lives have examples of when we war for some perfect ideal that resides in our Mind.
I want to be happy and free and peaceful and so I kick my ass when I am not being happy, free, and peaceful [or someone else will, thinking they are doing a great thing]. What’s going on here is now not just an innocent ego…but an even deeper version standing sentry watching your thoughts to insure you are being the ‘right’ kind of person. And when not, “Bad! Bad! Bad!” yells the SuperEgo.
Oh yes. I’ve commented before how brilliant it all is really. SuperEgo is the God ~ and we’re taught it IS God, right? We’re taught to worship the altar of our own shame, fear, and loathing so that we - without hardly realizing it - get back into the game of Mind.
And when this happens, we have lost recognition of the I AM. This video is beautiful and I recommend it for anyone who is called to this Invitation.
I usually put stuff like this on my Facebook page but wanted to share it here because I had quite a bit to say. I hope you love this video! ~Samsara [Facebook]
Going up?
There is a certain imprisoned spirit whose personality despises a free spirit. Bless them and be free anyway.
What is still limitless when the mind is limited?
When you’re a butterfly, it no longer serves to think caterpillar thoughts. :)
I study metaphysics, spirituality, theosophy. Love the divine right for any human to live the path s/he needs to live in order to get to the Spirit she wants to achieve.
