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Happy Diwali - Oshwal News to drink in the world, all of it. We would like to travel to every place, see everything, feel every sensation, not miss out on anything. We constantly hurry that we’re doing so as to be available to do something else. We try to juggle too many things at the same time precisely because we want too many things. The possessions we really want are experience, knowledge, sensation, achievement, status. We’re greedy in a way Scrooge never was. A SPIRITUALITY OF NON-HURRYING “Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried”. Thoreau wrote that and it’s not meant as something trivial. W e hurry too much, pure and simple. As Henri Nouwen describes it: “One of the most obvious characteristics of our daily lives is that we are busy. We experience our days as filled with things to do, people to meet, projects to finish, letters to write, calls to make and appointments to keep. Our lives often seems like over packed suitcases bursting at the seams. In fact, we are almost always aware of being behind schedule. There is a nagging sense that there are unfinished tasks, unfulfilled promises, unrealised proposals. There is always something else that we should have remembered, done, or said. There are always people we did not speak to, or visit. Thus, although we are very busy, we also have a lingering feeling of never really fulfilling our obligation.” We are always hurrying. What’s wrong with hurrying Any doctor, police officer, spiritual director, or over worked mother, can answer that: Hurrying causes tension, high blood pressure, accidents, and robs us of the simple capacity to be in the moment. But spiritual writers takes this further. They see hurry as an obstacle to spiritual growth. Donald Nicholl, for example says “hurry is a form of violence exercised upon time, “an attempt, as it were, to make God’s time our own time, our private property. What he and others suggest is that, in hurrying, we exercise a form of greed and gluttony How so Too often we have a rather simplistic notion of greed and gluttony. We imagine greed, for example, as hoarding money and possessions, as being selfish, hard hearted, like Scrooge in the Dickens’s Christmas tale. Indeed, that kind of greed exists, though it’s not the prerogative of many. For most of us, greed takes a different, more subtle form. More than money, we hoard experience. We try Gluttony works essentially the same. For most of us, the urge to consume is not so much about food or drink, but about experience. Our propensity to overeat (particularly in an age that is so sensitive to health and fashion) generally has little to do with food and infinitely more to do with other kinds of consumption. We are always in a hurry because we are forever restless to taste more of life. Its this kind of hurry, subtly driven by greed and gluttony, that can be a form of violence exercised upon time and can constitute an obstacle to spirituality. But there are other kinds of hurry that come from simple circumstance and duty. Almost everyone of us, at least during our working years, have too many things to do: Daily, we struggle to juggle the demands of relationships, family, work, school, church, childcare, shopping, attention to health, concern for appearance, housework, preparing meals, rent and mortgage payments, car payments, commuting to and from work, bus schedules, unwanted accidents, unforeseen interruptions, illness and countless other things that eat up more time than is seemingly available. It is said that the mark of a true adult is that “he or she does what it takes”. Sometimes that means being stretched to the limit, being over-extended, having to juggle too many things all at once, driving faster than we’d like, working to the point of exhaustion, even as there is still more that we should be ideally be doing. There’s a hurriedness that doesn’t come from greed or gluttony and that can’t be dismissed with the simplistic judgement: “That’s what she gets for trying to have it all!” Sometimes we have to hurry just to make do, and simple circumstance and duty eat up every available minute of our time. That’s not necessarily an obstacle to spirituality, but can be one of its paths. S till we have to be careful not to rationalize. God did not make a mistake in creating time. God made enough of it, and when we can’t find enough time and find ourselves getting up ever earlier and going to bed ever later because we have too much to do, we need to see this as a sign that sooner or later we had better make some changes. When we hurry too much and for too long we end up doing violence to F time, to ourselves, and to our blood pressure. By Ron Rolheiser, USA 55
Happy Diwali - Oshwal News Dates For Your Diary OCTOBER ♦ 11th North West Ladies Club & Culture Heritage - Diwali Special Demonstration ♦ 14th North Area - Diwali Bazaar ♦ 14th South Area - Diwali Programme ♦ 15th South Area - Diwali Programme ♦ 15th Youth Area - Inter-Area 5 A Side Football Tournament ♦ 21st EC-Religious Committee - Laxmi Pujan, Sharda Pujan, Chopda Pujan ♦ 21st EC-Culture & Heritage Committee - Grand Diwali Celebrations ♦ 22nd EC-Culture & Heritage Committee - Grand Diwali Celebrations ♦ 27th North East Area Sakhi Mandal - Diwali Get Together ♦ 28th West Area Youth Club - 3D Diwali Dinner & Dance ♦ 28th Luton Area - Diwali Celebrations ♦ 29th Young Oshwals UK - Halloween Party NOVEMBER ♦ 3rd North West Ladies Club & Culture Heritage - Whist Drive ♦ 5th EC - Religious Committee - Kartik Poonam Yatra ♦ 8th EC - Welfare Committee - Inheritance Tax and Will Planning ♦ 12th Oshwal Singles Club - Speed Dating ♦ 12th North West Area - Sneh Milan ♦ 15th North West Ladies Club & Culture & Heritage - Cooking Demonstrations ♦ 19th General Meeting For All Members at Oshwal Centre, Potters Bar ♦ 25th South Area Mahila Mandal - Rajasthan Night ♦ 25th North Area Sakhi Milap - Whist Drive ♦ 26th East Area - Kathiawadi Dairo DECEMBER ♦ 1st North West Ladies Club & Culture Heritage - Whist Drive ♦ 13th North West Ladies Club & Culture Heritage - Cooking Demonstration ♦ 17th Young Oshwals UK - Xmas Party ♦ 31st North West Ladies Club & Culture Heritage - New Year’s Eve Dinner & Dance JANUARY 2007 ♦ 20th North East Area - Mujshe Shaadi Karogi For Further Details Please See the ‘Programmes Booklet’ & Our website - www.oshwal.org The Deadline for the next Issue of Oshwal News is 20 October 2006 Om Namo Arihantanam A Om Namo Siddhanam Om Nam Ayariyanam E Om Namo Uvajjhayanam B Namo Loye Savva Sahunam Eso Panch Namukkaro F Savva Pavappanasano C Mangalanam Cha Savvesim Padhaman Havi Mangalam G Sarva mangal mangalyam, sarva kalian F D Karanam, Pradhanam Sarvdharmanam,Jainam Jayati Shasanam H 60
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