Recently my brave mother had an unexpected heart attack in the middle of the night. It's amazing how thoroughly and quickly one is placed in a position of feeling that your contribution to the situation must be precise and strong. You simply must rise to the occasion or fold under the pressure. In this particular case her entire tribe of loved ones were there for her..... beautifully offering her the psychological support that we all need during times of brushing a little too close to the darkness.
I must say that the great news is Judy has gotten past the triple bypass surgery now, and after picking her up from the hospital, I saw a certain light in her eyes glimmering when she said "I am so happy to be free". The worst is behind her and I am very optimistic that her future looks very bright without the lingering fatigue that she was feeling before.
That brings me to the other more metaphysical stuff that reverberates through my the mind and lingers in the soul during these times.....
These thoughts:
"What is it all for?"..."This whole process of life and death seems so random and chaotic"...
Or as Woody Allen put it recently when asked about the prospect of God and some kind of plan in the universe...."Nobody out there knows what's going on?".
The truth that resonates somewhere beneath it all is that the more of an intellect you use, the more difficult it is to believe in some sort of a Monotheistic God that has some sort of a plan for us and a beautiful end game. I have to say that with the hunger crisis in Africa threatening 20 million people as we speak, the idea of a divine plan for these unlucky people seems preposterous.
(See John Folwes "The Aristos" and his ideas on "hazard" playing such a large role.)
However, that's why we call it "faith" I suppose. What about this idea that God is "in nature"...that God is in everything...It's a wonderful idea that is comforting....but does that mean we should just sit out under a tree out in a field for most of our lives and smile as much as we can until they put us in the ground? Wow that sounded negative... For me ....I must believe in something that is much larger than myself.(But what)..When I look into the mirror, I know that I am definitely not calling the universal shots from my ego based lair.
There is an idea that we have all heard before in the self-help community which states...."Live this day as if it were your last"....
I do like this advice, although I feel personally that is very difficult because we like to fall back into a comfort zone that we are used to. We want to feel stable, not to be embracing every change around the corner for the sake of some mantra.
Who knows...the smartest scientists out there are totally conflicted about energy and how it works in the universe, and the meaning of time and the meaning of our ability to effect our future with our thoughts. We know that thoughts do effect energy particles from vast distances..but what does it all mean. So what?
Hmm. When you are faced with a life defining operation like my mothers or like the one I had a few years ago, you simply fight as hard as you can do get one more day. When you get that one more day...then you can ponder these types of big questions.
Or you might decide that nobody will ever figure this stuff out and the way to go is just to live an honest, moral life that effects the most people possible in the most positive way possible. If you can fit some good old fashioned fun in between, well then you might not care if there are no answers.
Recently I came across this healer in a Saturday market up north that shared with me some spiritual ideas that he put down on paper when he was in Tibet..At least, that was his story and I went with it.
Nice thoughts that definitely resonate somewhere... not sure what the relevance is to daily tasks though. Note: The Law of Continuation is particularly perfect.
The Laws of the Universe
1: The Law of Conservation:
The Universe wastes nothing.
2: The Law Of Prosperity:
Prosperity comes from something higher than us, flows through us but is not for us,
But meets our every need want and desire as it flows through.
3. The Law of the Unending Circle:
What effects one, effects all.
4. The Law of Continuation:
We are, therefore we will always be,
The form is not as important as the deed done by that form.
5. The Law Of Constants:
God in all forms from energy to spirit, to matter and to vastness that is, is the only constant.
6. The Law of Creation:
What was created will always be just that, created.
But remember that within us is the force that created us.
7. The Law of Connection:
By design we are interconnected and interdependent to every other being on this plane.
8. The Law of Understanding:
Love is built in every creation. Our job is to come to understand it is there.
9: The Law of Peace:
Peace is defined by the chaos it balances.
10: The Law of Events:
All things are meant to happen, we must open to the understanding that
Each gives us a way to move closer to the one that created us.
It all sounds absolutely brilliant. I would like some real answers in the mail if possible.
Rick
September 3/2012
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