Teaching Stories
All my students know of how I teach the way people view their life as stories.
I teach how to shift the way we view stories: to hold stories lightly and embrace stories from many angles in order to see the world in a more complete way. To see stories from angles of truth and falseness both.
I came across this Video today and it made me smile!
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
Keep in mind the News system only projects single stories from an elite point of view. If you truly want to discover the world. Turn the mainstream news off: begin to share stories, both your own story (not the stories others give to you to think as being you!) and other people's stories.
This also means not to only project out a single story of your own life, since to do so likewise limits your own nature.
Discover life is not a single story... but rather all stories combined to represent a world of Humanity. Not as a single merging as our stories but as a collage of humanity to represent the hopes of billions of people working to become something greater.
Namaste
2 comments:
The thought used to come to me as "what if all the stories are true"? We tell ourselves these stories and make them true for us. And forget that they are just stories we are telling ourselves... so they become our reality...
There are many angles to this. Quite a bit of what I end up teaching newer students and those trying to resolve out life problems is how to sort out stories and not get trapped within them.
Many many angles :)
The past is always a story, the future and expectations likewise stories... How we view our life is a layer of many stories and when we reduce it down to simple single stories we reduce our own richness down also.
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