{"id":69637,"date":"2023-02-19T12:47:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T11:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/181195360561"},"modified":"2023-02-19T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T11:48:01","slug":"empowering-instead-of-imposing-topiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=69637","title":{"rendered":"Empowering instead of imposing \u201ctopiary\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69636\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/tumblr_pjvn1hb2cN1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pjvn1hb2cN1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pjvn1hb2cN1sbj0vuo1_500-277x187.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><!-- --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/7aa46735a7c6b480514c0a159a122a5f\/tumblr_pjvn1hb2cN1sbj0vuo1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Empowering instead of imposing \u201ctopiary\u201d methodology.<br \/>\nVisakha dasi ACBSP: Think of a topiary. A topiary is a shrub clipped to create a particular shape. When we look at a topiary, we don\u2019t see the plant\u2019s natural shape but the shape that\u2019s been imposed on it. Topiaries may be visually entertaining, but when that \u201cclipping\u201d is applied to people and they are forced to function in ways that may be artificial for them, it leads to misery. To prevent someone from serving Krishna according to his or her personal proclivities is a kind of violence. No one wins \u2013 not the persons involved, not the Hare Krishna society, and not the promotion of Krishna consciousness. It\u2019s a lose-lose-lose scenario.<br \/>\nEmpowerment is the opposite of this forced \u201ctopiary\u201d methodology. To empower means to recognize, encourage, and facilitate one\u2019s abilities and then create a framework in which one can work in a stronger and more confident way. To empower, then, means to recognize others\u2019 qualities, trust them, and offer them fresh challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/7aa46735a7c6b480514c0a159a122a5f\/tumblr_pjvn1hb2cN1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nVisakha dasi ACBSP: Think of a topiary. A topiary is a shrub clipped to create a particular shape. When we look at a topiary, we don&rsquo;t see the plant&rsquo;s natural shape but the shape that&rsquo;s been imposed on it. Topiaries may be visually entertaining, but when that &ldquo;clipping&rdquo; is applied to people and they are forced to function in ways that may be artificial for them, it leads to misery. To prevent someone from serving Krishna according to his or her personal proclivities is a kind of violence. No one wins &ndash; not the persons involved, not the Hare Krishna society, and not the promotion of Krishna consciousness. It&rsquo;s a lose-lose-lose scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-69637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96493,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69637\/revisions\/96493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}