... and we weep, we fear, we shudder at the loss. But nature must respond to change, the eternal constant, and that ultimately is death of what we see as matter...matter evolving into something else, a reassembling of molecular structure into another form.
We don't cry out to our gods begging for answers as to why over an estimated 100,000 Iraqis have died, but we question the benevolence of a god that would allow over 150,000 people to die from the tsunami, not to mention the deaths from lack of fresh water and food mixed with disease in its aftermath.
We humans are very proud of ourselves. We pay little attention to the natural world around us. How many of we 'civilized' humans that dwell in the large cities of the world have seen the stars that shine above us every night? How many of us pay any attention to the animals that share our planet? It is been noted that the majority of animals, the beasts, the birds and the fish, and quite possibly the insects, escaped death from the disaster... all but the domesticated animals that were in zoos or tethered by man for man's use.
How many human lives could have been saved if they were to pay attention to the natural world, the fleeing of the animals, the flights of birds..? It wouldn't take an enormous amount of intelligence to pay attention to these things fleeing in the silence to higher ground before all hell broke loose, but we humans seem to pay little attention to this world that we inhabit. We are so consumed by our own minds that we rank the animal kingdom far, far below the family of man.
We are convinced that our gods have given us this planet and all the other life forms to do with as we please. We are the best of the best... after all it is we that have spoken to the gods, it is we that have the power to destroy, the power to create... just like God. We are created in his image, by god! We have written it and taken it to heart. We see the beasts of the earth and call them dumb. "They cannot defend themselves from man - how stupid can they be?" That is our own stupidity at work. Until we realize that 'god-consciousness' within, we can never understand being 'created in his image'...
We have not yet evolved enough to accept our consciousness. It has been only those that have come face-to-face with their own Self that can truly say "we are created in the image of god." But those who have experience this are yet but few. Our species have a long time to go before we can set our selves free from our doubts and fears, free from our religions and philosophies, free from our conditionings and suspicions. We have to continue in the struggle of life, it's sufferings, to attain our 'god consciousness' - the gift that allows us the freedom to live once again in that garden of eden that was not lost, but never realized, as hinted at in books of old.
Consciousness is the eternal...the realization that all of life is but a peculiar vessel for consciousness to play out its act at 'this' moment, be it thru a human, a plant, a fish, a bird, a mammal. And we are at times totally unaware of this 'part' we have been given to play, and indeed separate ourselves from the rest of life as one in an audience watching the drama unfold before us as we sit in our comfortable chairs, in the darkened theater, our tickets paid for, critiquing the rolls we see being acted out. The truth is in this theater we too are staged like all upon the stage, for the stage is all that we can envision, no matter how it is envisioned. We cannot truly separate ourselves from any of it, for we are all part and parcel of it all in its entirety.
Each and every one life form is ultimately connected to all others that exists...our matter-life changing from one form to another in an endless cycle of birth-death-rebirth.
When seen in that context, why do we fear? Why do we hate? Why do we carry such negativity within us. We accept ourselves for what we are, but could we be accepting something sick inside us, something out of balance, as being 'what we are'? We do have the ability to fine-hone our being, to create ourselves into masterpieces. Given our gift of intellect we can certainly rise above our stupidities, our selfishness, our greed....but most of us remain sick and accept our sickness as our gift from life. How ridiculous! Why would any creator create a failure?
Why does a star explode? Why does a meteor collide into a planet? Why do the constellations revolve, implode, give birth to new stars. That is part of the great mystery that leaves us humble before existence. When we fill our minds with all that we can, it is only then that we must empty it and feel the presence of all that we learned run silently out of our minds into the flow of eternity. At that moment of release, we touch the mystery and become one with it. Then we begin filling the mind again, a little more selectively, for we have gained a new perspective, our mind vessel has altered. We no longer need that which we had. We seek out something new to sustain us...that is how we grow. We cannot continue sucking on mother's milk. That is only for the baby to gain a foothold into life... the child needs other nourishment's to continue forward, and we need new nourishment to feed the growth of both our bodies and our minds in order to realize our Self.
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Cecil
09 January 2005
MACAW FEATHER [for no particular reason...]
