A Very Real Moment with Prem Rawat

PS: It’s not about perfection. It’s about presence.

Mitch Ditkoff
5 min readJun 13, 2024
Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash

Based on my observations over the past five decades, there seems to be a big fat concept that is common among peace-seeking individuals — well-meaning, heart-centered people who are engaged in some kind of “consciousness practice.”

When push comes to shove (or namaste comes to the mall) it doesn’t seem to matter all that much what path these individuals walk. The same big fat concept seems to show up everywhere. And here it is:

Peace-loving people should always be in a state of bliss, oneness, equanimity, and gratitude.

Nice concept, wrong universe.

Yes, of course, all of us are capable of the above — a most worthy aspiration. But to assume we should always be there (and that there is something wrong with us if we’re not) is just a bunch of BS. Even the Dalai Lama gets angry.

Big-time enlightened beings have bad moods and bad days. Shit happens.

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Mitch Ditkoff

Co-Founder of Idea Champions and Face the Music. Author of Storytelling for the Revolution, Storytelling at Work, Unspoken Word and Free the Genie. Human being