Thursday, September 13, 2007
A NEW CHARACTER
The brief enlightenment was eons ago. I'm now fully back in the thick of it and feeling a real pull from the relative world. Speaking my truth, being authentic, not from who i 'think' i am, but from who i really am, is hard, hard work. For 30 years now, I've constructed a framework from which i live my life and not only do i deeply identify and find seeming comfort in those patterns (and relationships), but so do other people. They rely on me to be a certain way, to have certain responses, to react accordingly, to fit into the mold that I've always fit into, because that is how their movie is written. Characters in movies don't change unless the director writes it into the script. And how often do you write into your life script, for all the people around to change? So again, it reflects back to me. I am the organic, dynamic, ever changing being, and i can't expect people to be along for the ride. My world as i know it may crumble just a little bit as i evolve (and devolve and revolve, only to evolve a little more).
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The metamorphisis for the butterfly is no less of a challenge than it is for us to shed the outer layer of our cellular experience. If someone breaks the cocoon for the butterfly it's wings then do not delvope properly and it is disabled; we all must do our own work to evolve (however slow this process may feel) we will emerge and trasform. What this means for us as we go transmute what we have always known. Do you think the butterfly says, I can not be a butterfly I was just a catiplliar? Can you hear that conversation? Wow, I just had all these legs and I traded them in for a set of wings...glorous, impossible, possible and sacred. Had it only known it was a butterfly do you think it would have done things differently, would you? If you knew this transformation (with/without wings) would you see yourself differently maybe, embrace your steps, inhale them deeply, cherish them all.
The path to making choices from the 'Authentic Self' (post-modern enlightenment), is an arduous one, yet nothing could be more beautiful or important at this point in history. It is important to mention that most spiritual gurus teach that true enlightenment involves only 1 truth. To see this truth during a higher state of consciousness (meditation, retreat, realization) is a beautiful thing. The hard work comes in actually living up to what we've seen in the highest possible context. It then becomes simply 'truth', rather than my truth or your truth.
Speaking from my own experience, it is very easy to see a higher calling and believe I have seen something all to my own but it is simply not true. Truth is here whether we live up to it or not, whether we see it or not.
Our challenge as practitioners is humbly living up to the highest we have seen for the sake of the whole while speaking to others at the highest point they have seen with great compassion. This pushes everyone to the edge of their own development and hopefully beyond, with the highest level of integrity and grace.
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