After musing on the best role to play today, another Freedom Day as announced by Resistance folks internationally, seems to be heading not out of the Dale but inside, where the heart resides, and the preferred role of Peaceful Warrior starts here on the blog, after a brief skirmish on the addictive FB, where virtual friends and virtuous ones too, pop up from time to time. This includes Daniel, a French Canadian Daoist, with whom a few days passed on retreat at Cluny College, Forres, with contemporary guru Jeff Foster, who went on to teach internationally, his version of non-duality, quite successfully. Daniel has lived and worked in China and Taiwan ever since and this morning raised questions about freedom, including an unusual perspective on life in mainland China compared to neo-fascist states previously espousing democratic values.
Yesterday's trip to the edge of Weardale to a tiny house in a field off the A68 road to Scotland, led to a fascinating and uplifting day with an old friend who entered the spiritual path with the Brahma Kumaris some years ago and now lives in her heart, mostly minding her own business, and sharing stories on FB. A meeting of minds beyond words on a sunny day, a walk along tracks, some familiar, settled the question of where to spend World Freedom Day today. The choices, gradually revealed by friends and odd websites evading the censorship, were London, Glasgow, Cardiff, Scarborough, Leeds and others in UK, but not Newcastle, Durham or anywhere local to Weardale.
The depth of current crisis, or pandemic, was revealed in dialogue on the fells at a cosmic level, where optimism prevailed despite the awful fears all round the worlds of the minds imagining all sorts of dystopian delusions, promoted by the architects of The Great Reset including the usual suspects, the plutocrats, with their Luciferian lackeys, not to mention minor players, like prefects with clipboards and the authority they craved at school. Exploring the possibilities of escaping the Fears and the options for Nirvana, always available, universal love was seen clearly as the only choice in the end ... but when the end comes in eternity is a tricky question, of course!
What's sure is that the Sun rose earlier today, and is hiding behind thin cloud for a while. Legs are itching to walk and its warm enough outside to wander in shorts and sandals down the Dale with propaganda to share in the rucksack and random strangers to meet for a chat.
The old question of "who are they, if not us", which arose along the Way to Santiago de Compostela many years ago, still points back to us and our shadow side. But that's philosophy and not walking or blaming or shaming, just accepting responsibility to live simply, with compassion plus patience to relax and allow the truth to reveal itself ...
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