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2nd Of 7 Tips From Gandhi On How To Free You

by DerekDashwood

It was American antiques personality Henry David Thoreau who was
the inspiration to Mahatma Gandhi in his fight to resist English
rule. It was the destiny of Gandhi to remove the Jewel from the
English Crown.

Make your own was fundamental to Gandhi and his followers, who
began to make their own clothing, from home made spinning wheels,
effort and raw cotton. To be seen in an English made shirt on raw
cotton shipped cheap from India, factory made and sold in India,
was to show you still felt beholden to the system and your mind
was not free.

In contrast, to be seen in a cheap cotton shirt badly made on a
rickety spinning wheel was to feel free. The many ways each
person could make their own was up to the imagination. A shirt, a
pair of pants, a pair of shoes, could all be made from the
products of the fields and their common efforts. Communal
cooperation was a means  by which others could join in, learn,
begin the process in their own lives. And gradually at first and
then with a gradually building momentum, the make up of dress
wear began to show, and increase the fears of the British
masters.

By the time of the outbreak of World War Two and Pearl Harbor
the Japanese conquests down through China and Indo China found
Singapore at the south tip of Asia fall to the Japanese who then
surged into Burma. Indian loyalty was critical to maintain a
common front against Japan. And the vast teeming masses of India
went on with their meagre lives during this all. And into this
mix came the angry lawyer from South African experience with
apartheid Gandhi. His refusal to bow as lesser in Africa had him
soon worrying the British back in his homeland of India.

The scholars clothes of the Oxford educated Gandhi soon had him
dresssing down to his audience. In the steaming tropical heat of
the Indian sun, Gandhi could prayerfully wrap himself in a cloth
robe made by himself at a spinning wheel of his making. And this
non violent avoidance of things British other than the common
base of the English language by which Gandhi soon recognized with
its many many sects and languages could speak and understand all
as one. Yet always the reality of complex faiths and their
clashes came to the way to harmony and peace.

So always were the major clashes of religious ethos between
ancient Hindu, Buddhist faiths with the invasive armies of Islam
from Afghanistan and Persia. Gandhi tried all his life to keep
these two faiths within the umbrella of a mighty proud free
peoples of India. But Pakistan would be created in the
predominently Muslim sections, and for years millions of Muslim
and Hindu faith passed each other crossing into their new forced
homeland.

We are forced to recall this now only up in the mid mountain
kingdoms of Kashmir. Here in 1947 the Hindu maharaja placed by
Britain to rule in this Muslim region decided his mother India
should be home for these red ants, as Thoreau might have
suggested, in a black ant land. Thoreau would observe ants bump
into each and not back off. Soon all would fight to the death;
bodies without a head still snapping their pincers into eternity.
But during the lifetime of Gandhi the means by which to sooner
see a free land came from making your own.

How that applies to you in your life only you can determine. But
to make your own can incorporate new ideas on how to re make your
own out of that which had once worked fine but no longer does.
Can it be repaired. Can you repair it. Is it worth the cost in
your time and effort and in parts or replacements. Often times
now it is cheaper to replace your own with a hot new toaster from
China with streamlined looks and a more up to date feel about it.
It makes you feel rich. Ignore it. Hold a stick with a slice of
thick European black rye bread to the fire. Just kidding.

But you knew this and for you, how to get the flow if free inner
behavior is where you are willing to go. How you make your own
way into your old patterns and review how your comfort zone ways
and means to create security in your life depends ultimately on
you. Perhaps it is soon time to find new ways to make your own.
He or she who rows their own boat merrily down the stream gets to
make their own in ways that only occur during the journey. But on
your way, notice the lovely flowers on the embankment. You could
make your own daisy chain.

Make your own relationship work better by investing more of
yourself. Make your own time to be with your family; a neice,
child or grand child who needs a new pair of runners for gym
because the feet will keep outgrowing. If you cannot make your
own shoes for them, you can both make your own joy and harmony
while you select what your budget can afford and that brand may
not have the name you will spend so much more for. Become
acquainted with those publications that shop compare for you and
rate the value to the price and performance. Are you paying
Mercedes prices for Volkswagon quality?

How you can be sure is by non purchase practice shopping before
you touch the puppy. Make your own most perfect fit in your life
for each new or retained article from your socks to your food.
You can make your own food if you have your own garden or in
urban areas, roof or community gardens. How we shrink down our
lives to more basic is in the cards and we may as well enjoy that
journey which God or the fortunes of history are blowing our way.
How you make your own can set you apart in ways you might not yet
envision.

And it is good that challenges blast into our lives we may as
well say. For if we have, and we have not, lived in peaceful
harmony like ancient  Egyptians for thousands of years, to have
mad Assyrians on horses with new sharper swords ride out of
theSinai desert and ruin our lives forever. Egyptians ran in fear
as this new creature it seemed to them, a horse-man with a sword,
cut them down. Like them, we must make our own recovery even
while our Assyrian hordes charge at us from the vast other side
of Asia into our lives.

This time, they make our own and sell it to us and thus pull
themselves up from our boot straps. And so as these vast sources
of human labor sweep all in its path we do need to take less car
trips to megamall to buy more lead lined replicas of something
antique looking but a real bargain. Do we make our own destiny
when we have lost the ability to actually any more to make our
own? Yes we do. And stay home and let the lead head in Ned allow
him to line up to spend that he has not yet earned to feel a bit
more rich while he just became a bit less rich.

And some where across the sea he who made our own just had a
little salary increase. And when you start to move up into the
heady dollar an hour range you will have more status and the
ability to make your own voice heard, quietly, at the next union
meeting. Ah so. Size of crumpet muffin not enough. Want more.
Sir. No great issue, we just tell megamart price went up three
pennies for your raise. Very difficult to make your own now,
unless you quietly contemplate how. But no time for that now?
Well yes there is or there should be.

And how you see your own way to make your own way will be
determined each step you take along the way. American antiques
history from Henry David Thoreau did so influence Gandhi in how
to free his people. Martin Luther King would follow these same
steps to divine fortune with similiar results; death by violent
guns. You need not pursue your destiny any which way but loving
and wise. And that is how Gandhi would suggest we look at how can
we get by with less and find more joy. As we make our own: shirt,
shoes, or simply our divine destiny. Good fortune to you.

Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the
combining of science into the humanities to measure politics,
wise use and mis use of power and protective love at
<a href="http://www.americanantiqueshop.com">American
Antiques</a>

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