For some reason this quiet solstice feels like it is a crossroads.
We are years into recovering from our worldwide troubles, yet the troubles further complicate.
Lao Tzu says to give something as much care at the end, as you gave in the beginning. This usually works.
BUT does anyone else notice that some situations actually seem to worsen as attention is paid to them, that they somehow get even more complicated with care? This defies logic and the natural way of things. Or does it?
We have been whacking moles, only to find more and more. Stepping into these feels like sticky taffy, getting more brittle the more we mess with it, slowing progress to a halt. These systems that have this type of energy sink are to be avoided if you value your sanity. But we are entrenched in these in all aspects of our modern lives. How do our easy solutions not make it all better? The little things we do each day that get us through can also be detrimental to long term solutions. Why does it seem so hard?
As a person who became too disabled to participate in the Great American Reindeer Games, now I have had nearly 3 decades of an outsider's perspective. Having grown up an all-American girl, stayed in school and in shape, got degrees and worked hard, did everything that model citizens do, even more by joining the military during the Gulf War to serve my country as a linguist analyst. Award-winning unit... decorated...
it wasn't enough.
As soon as my body stopped working, after doctors and hospitals made limp attempts to figure my vagus nerve damage out, my country was done with me. So I had to move on and be done with wanting it to want me. But the perspective and awakening I have had to the big thing we call the Truth shows me that all the systems here are geared toward production, and being productive, with no tolerance for those who aren't. And so I finally could untangle those seemingly entrenched emotional roller coasters and heart sinks we call our society, our infrastructure, and can see that it was never going to work for all of us. Those systems are facades, serving a few with minor inconveniences while more and more people face their own personal apocalypses. More faces each year have that same emotionally shattering realization that jobless, homeless, un-able people have no place here. After all, it IS a Republic, and we know that they are made for colonization, not so adaptable when we need to recognize our social concerns.
If you can, search yourselves and see if you can feel it, this solstice feels like a coming awakening on a mass scale. We are calling out lies. We are showing out people's once secret deeds. All shall be known, and then we will have to decide what to do about it. But as we anticipate the big boom we can ALL feel coming, we can take care of each other. Find your tribe and BE a member. Organized religions and other charities have been doing this for centuries... we must find our own reasons, all of us, to be good neighbors, helpful people, communicative. Space equals love! Tolerance is important, when dealingn with our garden variety personalities... we must understand like our Tao te Ching says,
ALL THINGS UNDER HEAVEN ARE SACRED VESSELS, NOT TO BE CONTROLLED
Can we learn to see that? to show the respect and care for all vessels, even unto the level as if you had made them yourself... in a country where industrialization has deadened our ability to see inanimate objects and art as special, irreplaceable, WE MUST bring back the unique, the sentimental. Let nobody tell you to just get rid of your special things because you can get more later when it's convenient. Anyone who is being told how to feel, what to like or dislike, or even what you should do with your day, let alone your LIFE = being controlled.
The Romani people understood this, having been shuffled about and still maintaining their ways - very strict, in behaviour and attire - also had very few belongings, and because they were so few, were made FABULOUSLY. They are who I turned to, in order to find my way, since I did not want to sleep in my truck in the streets of Seattle or go to any of their shelters... I knew there had to be another way. I used millenia - old techniques of Egyptian women to keep my person in good fettle, and found that clays, coffee/tea and oils were so much better for my body, inside and out, than the store made stuff-- and soon, those store products were not even acceptable alternatives while traveling anymore. Let alone the production of the bottles, printing labels, carbon footprints tallying up and up... no more. Not for me. Not for the last decade now. That's how I came up with the Traveler's Cloak protocols, field testing in real life, a real disabled girl in a real tent in a real Olympic forest for a really long time.
Just to show it can be done.
We CAN care about ourselves more than the agovernment does. and should!!
We CAN find alternative ways of being, room for everyone, sharing food, clothing, shelters... and for some it will save their lives. It is time for the gathering of ourselves together, not for rallies -- but for each other. It is a time to put away petty grievance. Is it something that hurts people? We can make it stop. Is there something that is replicatable and helpful? we can share it amongst ourselves.
We were not put on this planet to painfully give away 20 to 40 years of the best youthful vigor you will ever have. Bad enough we do that to farm animals. Which is how this country views us. Trying to lower minimum age of working, encouraging farm births, maximizing age before retirement, not really caring about the living standards the whole time, because once you are done, they are no longer responsible for you, and the measly amount of rock-bottom priced healthcare that non working elders and disabled get feels like -- say it with me veterans -- they are just waiting for us to die. If it did not feel that way to millions of vets, that would not be a saying. Neither would it be known that Vets get two chances to die for their country -- once during service, and the other at the VA hospital. Ask any vet you know.
This rant is sponsored by a meditation message recently, which came across to me as "The time is over for the divided mind." We are all suspicious that our galaxy, maybe the universe, is just the order created by a cosmic sonnet, cymatically spinning matter into what we now see... and that we are the mind of the universe itself, having the same ratio of matter to space and nebulae exactly that our own brain neuronal map has. We see thensong is ending. Drift and calculations, the shddering of our great planet... The magnetic field was recently found to be diminishing more than we thought, even a few thousand years ago = 1.5x what we currently measure. So we have to know that ther are more important things in our brief, magical existence than working for people who have profitted off our misery for long enough (look up how many new billionaires were created during the pandemic, and how many are being made due to Ukraine/Palenstine issues).
ENOUGH.
Lao Tzu says when you divide things into parts, you have to name everything. THERE ARE ENOUGH NAMES. You are a creator. You have divine origins. What you think of, comes to
be, bad or good. What you focus on is brought to life. You are capable
of amazing feats, your ideas bring about marvels and changes! What a
brilliant mind you have, I cannot wait to see what you do! When you wake up on the other side of heaven and realize this was all for you, that you were a player in a beautiful, amazing opera, and that you were given divine powers to reason and create. Look within yourself, and wonder how you really want to spend your ticket to this ride. Take this wee existence and make it yours!
I would have been an analyst forever. Thank goodness life didn't let me. I would have never awakened. Even through my TBI, MS, central apnea, gastroporesis, severe carpel tunnel, thoracic crush damage, and now non working limbs, I feel a connection that surpasses any awareness I ever had. That is how much the universe wanted my attention. Now that I have connected with the Tao, there is no fear of physical death. Now there is just universal mind. And it is calling out --
Come together for each other. No longer shall we be or feel separate.
The time is truly over for a divided mind.
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