It is interesting to reflect on the notion that what we need is always there if we only know where to look. In starting this blog, I have resisted the urge to be profound and simply get started and share some of the wisdom that has come my way. I have had the privilege of hanging out with some of the most enlightened people in my life and I want to share some of it with others.
Although I was unable to access the dashboard of my old blog (which email did I create it with?) I have included it below. Sadly, the Middle East is still at war....
Move over Stanley
I reverberated when heard a radio interview tonight with a young bloke talking about the conflict in the Wow what an amazing thing to have in the fabric of your consciousness.....and just accept it as a given. Now no light without dark I understand. It's a physical phenomenon, but in my world, war is in no way a prerequisite of peace. It is a viewpoint that seems incomprehensible to me and one that could lead to feeling downright depressed that some people actually think that's the truth.
Many years ago I spent a couple of years living on a farm and conference centre in southern NSW and we were compelled by the Department of Agriculture to cull the rabbit population. We could shoot them, poison them or gas them. We chose what seemed to be the most humane way and duly filled in all the holes to the burrows and pumped the poisonous gas into their underground cavern. Well move over Stanley Milgram's research subjects. I was shocked how easily I could switch off any compassion and just get the job done. The irony was, I remember remarking as I was out in the heat of the sun digging in the burrows, about how much we have progressed as a planetary civilisation. Fifty years ago we were gassing whole populations, now we are only gassing rabbits. I spoke too soon I reckon.
It seems like a different approach is needed. It takes personal responsibility to become aware of and own any of our own thinking that contributes to the devolvement of humanity. Otherwise it renders us mere pawns. Rather, become knowing source of all that we experience and integrate the beliefs that are out of alignment with us being in our natural state of peace, harmony and collaboration with others.
Let's not have the past regurgitating into the future. Especially when we know it's not all working. Pretty much everything that happens starts in someone's mind. Trouble is that most people’s minds are either like a runaway train or have been living next to the railway line for so long they don't hear the trains any more. Really listen to some of the crap we think....can we really know that that is true. If we are going to make up stories lets make up something uplifting and imaginative - a little entertainment already. I really get the Buddhist thing about right thinking and right action. It seems like it is much more likely to lead to happiness, generosity and goodwill to all beings
