Sunday Stream (58) ~ change-x-change
Posted: December 4th, 2005, 9:16 am
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The reality is I find it disconcerting to sell myself. but the fact is that is the way of the world. We are a buy/sell society and not just in a capitalistic sense but through the exchange of product or services we exchange part of our being with others. It matters little what the product or service is...the exchange is what matters.
Give and take.... buy and sell - parallel energies contributing to life. The street cleaner just as important to a clean and orderly community as the governor.... buying a roll of toilet paper holds the same importance as purchasing the latest BMW - the circularity of exchange, the exhange of energy amongst people.
We exchange words, emotions, spit and sex. We exchange whilst we change. Exchange bringing change and change bringing exchange. Not only human but all of Nature does the same - the rain exchanging dryness with moisture.. clouds exchanging the sunlight with shade. Nature has it down pretty pat. It's been doing it for far longer than mankind. We're still learning to do our exchanges in a fair and balanced way just as Nature does, but we historically have fallen short having to kill and destroy that which we have created only to begin again and again.
New philosophies, new technologies, new insights from sciences and psychologies, we continually struggle to keep a level-headed balance to our lives... and continually find that balance is is never what we think it is or should be. Thus the struggle continues, thanks to mind and it's insistence on running the show.
The show is not what we want. The show is what we are a part of... Shakespearean players upon a stage which includes a much grander stage that the tiny platform for our ego to perform upon. Refuting that which we instinctively know, there is something, Virginia, more important than our ego - exchanging our ego for the other side... just 'a step outside our mind' as Taj Mahal once sang.
All of Nature is intune to that area... beyond the intital ego-self, the area of Pure Consciousness that unifies Life where understanding is no longer a goal but fully attained. It is the ultimate gift of exchange that forever gives... and forever will change our humanity.
Cecil - (7:07a.m. Austin, Texas)
04 December 2005
The reality is I find it disconcerting to sell myself. but the fact is that is the way of the world. We are a buy/sell society and not just in a capitalistic sense but through the exchange of product or services we exchange part of our being with others. It matters little what the product or service is...the exchange is what matters.
Give and take.... buy and sell - parallel energies contributing to life. The street cleaner just as important to a clean and orderly community as the governor.... buying a roll of toilet paper holds the same importance as purchasing the latest BMW - the circularity of exchange, the exhange of energy amongst people.
We exchange words, emotions, spit and sex. We exchange whilst we change. Exchange bringing change and change bringing exchange. Not only human but all of Nature does the same - the rain exchanging dryness with moisture.. clouds exchanging the sunlight with shade. Nature has it down pretty pat. It's been doing it for far longer than mankind. We're still learning to do our exchanges in a fair and balanced way just as Nature does, but we historically have fallen short having to kill and destroy that which we have created only to begin again and again.
New philosophies, new technologies, new insights from sciences and psychologies, we continually struggle to keep a level-headed balance to our lives... and continually find that balance is is never what we think it is or should be. Thus the struggle continues, thanks to mind and it's insistence on running the show.
The show is not what we want. The show is what we are a part of... Shakespearean players upon a stage which includes a much grander stage that the tiny platform for our ego to perform upon. Refuting that which we instinctively know, there is something, Virginia, more important than our ego - exchanging our ego for the other side... just 'a step outside our mind' as Taj Mahal once sang.
All of Nature is intune to that area... beyond the intital ego-self, the area of Pure Consciousness that unifies Life where understanding is no longer a goal but fully attained. It is the ultimate gift of exchange that forever gives... and forever will change our humanity.
Cecil - (7:07a.m. Austin, Texas)
04 December 2005
