Just There....
>>Nothing felt by or created by humans is "just there." That is where your "ideas" break down.
Human consciousness and desire, ambitions and goals, triumphs and disasters are not "just there." There is a causal relationship and it is directly attributable to cognitive thought, analysis at whatever level of the brain you care to choose, a response, usually accompanied by a motive action, and a result.
Humans are not rocks.
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Everything's relative.
The metaphor is The River.
Water is our time, trust, energy, light, love.
This "water" is "just there" - ie. it exists whether we affirm and embrace it or deny and war against it.
When we deny it are are at war against it, it's like one of the following:
1) we are in the jungle far from the shoreline of the river - climbing trees, swinging from trees, etc. - trying to "find" the water.
2) we are on the shoreline with our boats, oars, etc. but refuse to jump in.
3) we jump in, but immediately try to grab onto rock and before we know it we are scurrying around trying to build our minisandbars.
4) and then there are the "real pros" who make no bones about lining a bunch of people up to create dams behind which are manufactured worlds of hotdogs, distractions, security and benefits which are fueled by a single overriding focus on one thing: MONEY. Hence the creation of energy-taking business and political models which monitize/consume the time and trust of others.
5) but there are also these wacky "out of the box" fifth wheel characters like me - artists, entrepreneurs, musicians, dreamers, lovers - who "let go" and enjoy not only jumping into the River, but empowering others to jump in as well.
When we really "let go" and jump in the River we don't lose our ability to turn left or right or go backward and forward, nor to we lose the chance to beach ourselves on the shoreline, in a sandbar, against the rocks or behind a dam, etc. But once you "feel" the power of river the energy you share with others becomes a reflection of this power. Then you enter into this free, creative, floating sense of serendipity with all the wonderful and exciting things that "just happen" because there're "just there" - not because anything is different, but because our perception of those things is different.
When we let go and embrace risk to help and serve others we learn everything there is to learn from interacting and sharing and serving others.
I can't learn a thing on my own, period.
The only way I learn, the only way I grow to the next level is by risking, helping and serving others.
Perhaps the real experts in all this reduce everything to "just being" or if you work for Nike "just doing."
Try it.
Peace.
GO!! |
