Hi friends,
My name is Akram, I am a companion
When the secretary announced the next weekly agenda at the end of the session, I realized that some companions were surprised. In fact, I understood their feeling because I had the same feeling when I heard this agenda for the first time some years ago:
"So what?"
This agenda is formed just from two words (So what?) but it is one of the fifty-two weekly agendas of Congress 60; indeed, the importance of this agenda is that it can be considered either as a factor of prowling or deterrent power.
To introduce this phrase, we should just pay attention to our conversations we have with ourselves during the day: "Today I have lots of work to do, I have to clean my house, I must go to work on time, I have to cook, I should read the book, I should write an essay which I have thought about for a long time..."
Now the "so what" phrase enter to the arena of thoughts powerfully and our mind begins analyzing two different approaches towards doing the job.
The purpose: I have to clean my home.
First character: "So what? if you clean the home, nothing will happen." Then, we'll stop cleaning our house because of this intelligent question and the justifications which are made in our mind: "No one is going to come to your house, so do not put yourself in trouble, sit down and enjoy watching TV. You can clean the house later."
Second character: "So what?" why do you waste your time purposelessly? What can you gain from this indolence? What will happen if you have no motivation?" Then these reasons make us keep on the activities. "Get up and try hard, house cleaning makes you feel pleasant and it also makes your family more satisfied with you. Indeed, having discipline makes you calm and more relaxed and so you can do your work better than before."
Certainly, the motivating "so what" agenda results in your movement and you can defeat the depression based on your knowledge. But the disappointing "so what", that is made by deterrent power, results in lack of motivation.
Any way, if the responses for our questions are reasonable, the disappointing "so what" will be defeated; subsequently, we can move constructively. If not, we will fail as a result of frequent questions of our mind and we cannot proceed to move and we'll stagnate surely.
We should notice that the sounds and images are very efficient for the inspiration of our positive and negative thoughts and they are used in this two words- so what- perfectly. And we can recognize the hidden concepts of this basic question depending on our knowledge which we gain from previous agendas of Congress 60. In fact, we'll be able to achieve our ideal point in case of identifying different usages of that and we can get closer to our goal by using the best sounds and images.
We learned at Congress 60 that all structures begin with contemplation and our thoughts' structures will be formed by the moving and attaining. Thus, it is essential for us to deactivate the trick, which devil uses to pervert us from the true way. This trick results in depression, however with using our wisdom and thought, we can be successful. Therefore, we should try to walk through the path of evolution and balance with efficient and continuous effort.
Prepared by companion Hoda
May 19, 2016
Translated by companion Parasto