Change can shock us. We have to at times directly experience the precariousness of our own lives, the fragility of this miracle we call life. We must experience our nakedness to fate, to life, to change, in order to awaken to the spiritual logic of it all. We face the limits of our projections and attachments to how things are supposed to be. We face the failure of our illusions to fully explain our reality. Everything is pulling us to the moment where we can let go of the illusion and embrace our dance between dreaming and waking – unconscious and conscious, numb and alive, flat and dynamic, unhealthy and healthy, stagnant and moving, depressed and engaged, competitive and creative. On and on and on. Change, change, and change. Shock after shock after shock.
If we choose, we can experience these days as our days of Awakening (April 5-9, Pacific). By enduring shocks, change, and rebirth, we are experiencing our own awareness, its limits, revealing the dreamlike quality of life. We are the dreamer! To be Initiated by change, agitation, or arousal, is to choose to engage our lives creatively. We actually do this from a place of stillness at the heart of our hearts. This is so natural to us, but we so easily forget. It can also come back to us like a shock of knowing again. Ah Ha! We do this by knowing what we are not, letting go of how things should be, experiencing what we are, setting ourselves right, being steady in our determination to live, and being reborn through our faith in life. Listen for meditations and more.
