AND THE POINT IS...

Here in the great collapse, here where the beneficence of Planet Earth has been irrevocably radically altered, here where the reckoning is only just beginning, here where I belong, here, here where I am alive… here where I live… here it hurts me… here my feeling of community hurts. Here, my sense of my own species has become so dark. Here the future of the species seems so dim. Here, during my whole adult life I have been grappling. What to do? What to do?!!!

So my point? My point here is to inform. Is to indicate. What I wish you will do, as I wish I will do, is to continually refresh, let go, open-up, feel the heart's enthusiasm, pursue (throw the irrelevant to the gutter and run to) the inner awakening… the awakening which brings realization, dignity, proper action, peace, and wisdom. As the Realized have said, you have to be as a child (guileless) to enter the (inner) kingdom of heaven. With the proper guidance, the always guileless heart can enter/feel what it always longs for… for the essential turn-on, for the secret presence that is the divine… for that joyful experience which does continually stare us in the (usually) uncomprehending face.

This is not goobly-gook. This is not some better-world-coming wishful thinking. It is not some metaphoric poetic goo. And it is not the prevailing viewpoint. As I have noted, the ancients, the summation of their great cultures is that the divine is what is profound, is what is ultimately powerful, is what holds the meaning. The meaning of human experience is transcendence… is a recognition and the union/harmony with the divine… is a peace/a singular love that passeth understanding and is full of the wholeness that fullfills. Within.  Practical. Actual.

Within, I see it as our duty… our duty as citizens of Earth, of nature, of life, to focus on and behave according to this, our highest human quality. You make your choices, and you spend and spend time… you steer your story. And lo, you wake up one morning, say, at 72 years old and wonder if true fulfillment has been achieved. Without the inner peace of the One-Love, without the connection, without the relaxation, one occupies tension. Without the connection, one is ignorant of the actual… one so easily strays into the psychotic/pathological… is grasping rather than appreciative. And this toxicity x 8 billion is the catastrophe nature is now having to deal with.

Com’on! Yo, ’tis tough love time… we are the idiots, for sure… short-sighted… crunched, dented-in with poorly managed over-population, pollution… tweaking the amphetamine of petroleum and turning the planet to a hot-house. Oblivious of reality/actuality. Not that gratification is wrong. It’s just wrong when it is aimed the wrong way… when it ends up extinguishing a great percentage of our fellow LIVING species…and wrong when it is oblivious to the collapsing state of the bio-dome. Come’on! …then we are fucked! I have come to see the state of appreciation is the fix. That the empathy, the harmony of inner realized love and gratitude is the way. Otherwise… duality, delusion, bumbling… otherwise greed, self-centered-trauma-brained blindness Trumps.