Dear Meher Center Family and Friends,
After having a lovely Young Adult Sahavas two weeks ago, the Center is now getting ready for Thanksgiving. This year, Meher Baba's house will be open from 10 a.m. to noon on the morning of Thanksgiving. We will be serving a traditional Thanksgiving meal cooked for us by our friends at Racepath at 1 p.m. at the Refectory. Chai will be served at 3.30 p.m. at the Original Kitchen. That evening, Irwin Luck will be our guest speaker at 8 p.m. at the Meeting Place. The schedule for the weekly programs can be found here.
I also wanted to remind all of you about the Virtual Community Meeting with the board of directors of Meher Center on Sunday, November 24th at 5 p.m. We would like to invite everyone who can come to be part of this opportunity to learn about Center updates and ask questions and share your thoughts as well. For meeting details and Zoom links, please click here.
In a chapter called "What should we do?" in his book titled That's How It Was, Eruch Jessawala writes, "Again and again it comes back to the same truth: live a normal life. All these questions, what is good, what is bad, should I do this, should I refrain from doing this, will it feed my ego if I do it, but if I don't, isn't that simply being selfish? And so on, ad infinitum. There is no end to questions, and there is no end to answers to these questions. Don't get involved in trying to figure it out. Meher Baba wants us to lead an ordinary, normal life, in accordance with how you are guided inwardly. Do what you feel intuitively prompted to do, but all the time this should be based on the solid foundation of being His.
"Whatever you do, whatever you undertake, dedicate it to Him. Don't even think is it right, is it wrong, is it good or bad, is it a strength or a weakness. Just dedicate everything to Him. Gradually dishonesty will fade. Gradually other things will fade, and more and more unadulterated love and honesty will grow.
"You cannot begin with a clean slate, as it were. You must begin from where you are. We all have weaknesses. But analyzing and dissecting our motives, trying to understand whether we are being prompted by selfishness or unselfishness will not eliminate our weaknesses. It will only drive us crazy and make it impossible for us to do anything. The only way to get rid of our selfishness is to go ahead and do something, but dedicate it to Him."
Buz Connor
For Meher Center board and staff
*That's How It Was, by Eruch Jessawala, p. 256-257.
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