A friend recently placed Martha Beck’s “Finding Your Way in a Wild New World” in my hand as I was leaving her home. She asked me to tell her what I thought of the content. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but that night, when I crawled into bed, I opened the book and I haven’t put it down. Martha writes of many people approaching her, all sharing the same story…that of being part of a specific and beneficial change that they’ve been preparing for their entire lives and the time to act is getting closer.
“Whatever it is that we have been preparing for, we move at dawn.”
A few weeks ago I blogged about being in the “Bardo Period.” That time has passed, now we move at dawn. Ironically, I can’t tell you where, or how to move…or where we are going. Just that we are moving and we are going there fast.
It is currently my belief, and it has been for quite a while, that we (humans) have gotten ourselves into the current financial/global/climate mess with our intellect and our words. We have been taught (not educated which means to draw forth the information from within the individual) to listen to, or read, someone else’s ideas and parrot them back. Layer after layer of ideas, words, pile up…all meaningless and just not true. We buy someone else’s version of Truth, of what is right, or wrong, and what is necessary for our “own good.”
In addition to meaningless words, we have lost any ability we had to reason or be creative. (Now, I know this is not fully true…there are many creative individuals in the world, just not enough.) But think about it, our car tells us where we are going, how fast, to buckle up, and to stop or we will hit the wall behind us. We don’t have to remember directions, names or telephone numbers because technology does it for us. Instead of our brains expanding, growing new neurons, I suspect that just the opposite is true.
If we are going to find our way when we move at dawn, we will have to drop our attachment to the intellect, to words, to education being the “end-all.” Like my dachshund Morgaine, we must stop, put our nose to the wind and our body on alert, and sense…really sense our direction. And once we sense our direction, we head there, with our knees flexed, as fast as possible.
Rumi said, “Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
Remember,
We move at dawn.
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