Peace is not a waiting or a knowing that the pendulum that swings now will come to rest some day, some time.
Peace is knowing the nature of the pendulum and watching both the movement and the stillness.
Over the last two days, I have been watching this truly amazing DVD with my son - "Earth - The Power of the Planet", for the billionth time! It is one of our family favourites. One that we never seem to get tired of watching. Every time I watch it, I see something new. Yesterday, we watched the part on 'Volcanoes' together, and my conditioned mind at first said to itself, "Oh God! How terrifying, how destructive!", and I thought about how it must be to be in the midst of an eruption, shuddering with fear.
Later in the day, I saw a conversation in an online group about how a negative post breeds more negativity and that we should focus more on the positive. And I asked myself : "What is negative and what is positive? Why do we fear facing life as it unfolds to us each day? Why do we want to run away from life that is teaching us in so many ways, how to live?" Another voice from inside said to me: "It is like the pendulum. Just chill. Just know for yourself what the pendulum actually is". :)
But that doesn't stop me from writing and sharing this :)
Here is what I feel....
Our reflex and our conditioning makes us close our eyes and run away from anything 'violent' and 'negative', simply because it brings up a fear in us. A fear that we don't want to see. A fear that makes us feel that we will lose what we have today. We don't think that it could ever happen to us. It always happens to someone else. Just like death. We push it far away from us, not knowing that it walks with us in this very moment, as our shadow.
An earthquake kills thousands, destroys so much of what we have taken years to build. But we see only destruction. We don't see the power it has to actually create and sustain life and us. After one of the most devastating earthquakes, scientists measured and found out that the Himalayas had actually grown higher. That is how our magnificent mountains are formed. Without the earthquakes, which make mountains rise and provide the silt that rivers carry into the sea, our planet would be a water world! But we don't see it that way. Yes, we need to see what is, but deeply. We need to understand the essence of things, not look at them superficially.
We have to see that without the so-called 'violence' that we have today, we will not have non-violence and the paradise we hope to reach some day called 'peace'. Both are cries of children - two different, unique children of the Universe, yearning to sit on either lap of their beloved mother, who sees no difference and embraces both with love. It is not about waiting for one to take over or win over the other. It is about watching both play with and against the other and finding joy in that. It is about knowing and trusting their essence and the nature of things. The essence and the nature of the pendulum.
Peace is all about trusting life and the way it works.
Peace is knowing the nature of the pendulum and watching both the movement and the stillness.
Over the last two days, I have been watching this truly amazing DVD with my son - "Earth - The Power of the Planet", for the billionth time! It is one of our family favourites. One that we never seem to get tired of watching. Every time I watch it, I see something new. Yesterday, we watched the part on 'Volcanoes' together, and my conditioned mind at first said to itself, "Oh God! How terrifying, how destructive!", and I thought about how it must be to be in the midst of an eruption, shuddering with fear.
Later in the day, I saw a conversation in an online group about how a negative post breeds more negativity and that we should focus more on the positive. And I asked myself : "What is negative and what is positive? Why do we fear facing life as it unfolds to us each day? Why do we want to run away from life that is teaching us in so many ways, how to live?" Another voice from inside said to me: "It is like the pendulum. Just chill. Just know for yourself what the pendulum actually is". :)
But that doesn't stop me from writing and sharing this :)
Here is what I feel....
Our reflex and our conditioning makes us close our eyes and run away from anything 'violent' and 'negative', simply because it brings up a fear in us. A fear that we don't want to see. A fear that makes us feel that we will lose what we have today. We don't think that it could ever happen to us. It always happens to someone else. Just like death. We push it far away from us, not knowing that it walks with us in this very moment, as our shadow.
An earthquake kills thousands, destroys so much of what we have taken years to build. But we see only destruction. We don't see the power it has to actually create and sustain life and us. After one of the most devastating earthquakes, scientists measured and found out that the Himalayas had actually grown higher. That is how our magnificent mountains are formed. Without the earthquakes, which make mountains rise and provide the silt that rivers carry into the sea, our planet would be a water world! But we don't see it that way. Yes, we need to see what is, but deeply. We need to understand the essence of things, not look at them superficially.
We have to see that without the so-called 'violence' that we have today, we will not have non-violence and the paradise we hope to reach some day called 'peace'. Both are cries of children - two different, unique children of the Universe, yearning to sit on either lap of their beloved mother, who sees no difference and embraces both with love. It is not about waiting for one to take over or win over the other. It is about watching both play with and against the other and finding joy in that. It is about knowing and trusting their essence and the nature of things. The essence and the nature of the pendulum.
Peace is all about trusting life and the way it works.
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