Exploring this theme of simplifying Life by slowing down, it's clear enough that this brief visit to Earth, three score years and ten more or less, in perspectives like evolutionary time, geological time, any time that may be measured by the clever deceitful measuring mind, the left hemisphere of the brain, broadly speaking, which sneakily usurped the Right role, to integrate the findings of the measurerers into the whole where we human beings, endowed with Soul, return to the Unity of all that was, is and will be ... i.e. the eternal Now, so often pointed to in art, literature and increasingly science at macro and micro scale ... and as pointed to by mystics of every Age, wonderful to experience, impossible to explain ...
At this point, let's explain yet again, since all we have is language and language lies in its very construction, with all its past and future tenses, the proliferation of nouns, fixing what's always in motion into forms to be measured, monitored and therefore managed ... where would we be without the managers, with their time and motion studies? Big salaries accrue to the smart ones, while the measured, the wage slaves we may say, find ways to subvert the divide and rule through creativity ... trade unions explicitly and anarchy implicitly ... the human spirit inevitably revolts against suppression ... it always has and always will ... NB there's has and will again, how else can we communicate? Poetry perhaps? Telepathy certainly, practised by many and available to all ...
Hey ho, the word is not the thing described, and on we go, misunderstanding each other with our stories ...
Even this 'one thing at a time' teaching has its dualities, and energy often spoken about as fundamental has two poles, + & - in physics, ying yang in Dao, so where's the Unity to be found?
So, when walking walk is not quite true ... thinking, albeit clearer, occurs while walking ... occasionally thinking stops unasked, but that may arise when sitting or washing up, in Silence perhaps, though true Silence is rare and disturbing, even in Nature sound occurs ... birds singing, wind sighing, thunder clapping, sap rising, branches and whole trees crashing to the ground ... though philosophers ask whether it makes a sound if there is no smart Oxford or Cambridge sophist there to hear it! Imagine the arrogance of human beings believing they are so important to the whole of Nature ... creation myths and tales of Eden taken literally, the Separation some time ago, clearly a major error ...
Meanwhile, divide and rule goes on, played by powerful players in these mundane
games to subvert Love, our birthright. .. and if we find ourselves at odds with friends and family, divided by strongly held opinions, what to do? Surrender our opinion and convert to their's? Fall out and demand they convert to ours? Or rise above the conflict, find a way back to Love, suspend
hostilities, allow each other to make our choices freely, without judgement ...
Love will find a Way, it always does ...
In the village and the Dale, imprisoned elders come together on the run-in to Christmas Day, when Peace reigns and old myths play on, ready for Boxing Day when hostilities may resume, modern myths return, conspicuous consumption serving Mammon ... which is essentially our love of money in its many forms ... crackers? Hmm ...
Call me cynical if you must, but isn't it time to drop the myths, ancient and modern, Christian and Scientism, trust our deepest instincts, not to start some brand new system to enslave us, but embrace a simple Life of Love, compassion and patience ... take responsibility and put external authority in its rightful place ...
The wheel of time turns soon, the light stays longer then again!
Though even in the darkness, of course, the light is found ...
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