Triyuga also mentioned that “positive buy in … paves the way for team evolution.”
This is a fact that Andy Stanley sums up with the mantra “Acceptance fuels Influence”.
Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura explains the principle in his essay “Light of the Bhagavat”, published over a century ago.
He is the best critic who can show the further development of an old thought; but a mere denouncer is the enemy of progress and consequently of nature. Progress certainly is the law of nature, and there must be corrections and developments with the progress of time. But progress means going further or rising higher. The shallow critic and the fruitless reader are the two great enemies of progress. We must shun them.
The true critic, on the other hand, advises us to preserve what we have already obtained, and to adjust our race from that point where we have arrived in the heat of our progress. He will never advise us to go back to the point whence we started, as he fully knows that in that case there will be a fruitless loss of our valuable time and labor. He will direct the adjustment of the angle of our race at the point where we are.
This is also the characteristic of the useful student. He will read an old author and will find out his exact position in the progress of thought. He will never propose to burn a book on the ground that it contains thoughts which are useless.
No thought is useless. Thoughts are means by which we attain our objects. The reader who denounces a bad thought does not know that a bad road is even capable of improvement and conversion into a good one. One thought is a road leading to another. Thus, the reader will find that one thought, which is the object today, will be the means of a further object tomorrow. Thoughts will necessarily continue to be an endless series of means and objects in the progress of humanity.
It would be one thing to sit back with arms folded and criticize Atma Yoga, but what we have to do is engage, discuss the issues vigorously, and do the best we can to guide its development and implementation with our own conscious contributions.
“Acceptance fuels influence” is Andy Stanley’s mantra, and “Contribution fuels influence” is its corollary.
I agree with your final paragraph. I am confident that the fundamentals and much more are there in the Atma-yoga package. I think more experimentation needs to take place with the yoga. What I mean is we need more teachers teaching it in different places and getting definate feedback. I had the idea that someone could hire community halls in areas that have not been tapped into and teach a class. On those evenings it could be possible for the main centres to cook slightly more for these ’satellite’ places so someone could wiz out prasadam for the guests. You could have one devotee teaching and another demonsrating the moves (this is what Atma does) and then afterwards mix it up with the guests. Basically, like any product, we have to get out into the market for feedback and ‘ground experience’, then we can make minor adjustments on a package I’m confident will succeed.