poem
Lines of Becoming
Lines of Becoming
The first instinct
When your mouth does not become moist when you see that delicious food, you miss or suppress instinct.
When you cannot learn from unconscious experience alone, you miss or suppress instinct.
When you don't think of being tender without wanting sex, you miss or suppress instinct.
Poor you....
Working
with patterns
You can unconsciously tell what you mean, showing your face.
When you can only explain things with words, you miss or deny working with patterns.
You can tell a story, that makes things clear with no doubt.
When you can only explain things with definitions, you miss or deny working with patterns.
You know, that a ritual can reach your subconscious.
When you deny, that form outside and form inside interact, you miss or deny working with patterns.
Independent
action
Seeing the connection between your action and the changing surroundings. How could you otherwise function in the moving world?
Seeing the glory of being the moving power. What would be otherwise your motivation at this point?
Seeing the kind of action, necessary for reaching an aim. How could you otherwise do what you want ?
Accepting
there are truths that govern things
Realising what happens and seeing the cause. How could you do things the right way without understanding how things happen?
Realising the causes and connections over a distance in place and time. How could you act sensibly without knowing the laws of being?
Obeying the laws of being and the wise men and women who pass them on. How can humanity proceed the best way when motives are shortsighted?
Taking care of oneself
Taking responsibility for your own opinions. As long as you can only quote in order to prove you are right, you're not yet taking care of yourself.
Taking responsibility for your own living. As long as you refuse to earn what you need, you're not yet taking care of yourself.
Taking responsibility for your own acts. As long as you don't follow your acts and look what you set in motion, you're not yet taking care of yourself.
Being
together
Being conscious, that your group shares your reputation. As long as you don't take co-responsibility for the reputation of your group, you're not yet together.
Being conscious, that your group is a functioning system. As long as you think others have nothing to do with your life, you're not yet together.
Being conscious that people live by continuously giving and taking. As long as you think that your property has nothing to do with the property of others, you're not yet together.
Being conscious that an opinion is only an opinion and a conviction only a conviction. As long as you think your opinion has general validity, you're not yet together.
Being
at home in the world
Seeing the universe as your mother and father. As long as you exploit the universe, you are not yet at home.
Seeing the universe as a living system. As long as you don't recognise your place in this system, you're not yet at home.
Seeing the universe as the playing ground of humanity. As long as you are indifferent to the beauty of the universe in all its aspects, you're not yet at home.
Seeing, that what is good for humanity as a whole, has a very high priority. As long as you don't consider the laws of optimal existence for the whole, you're not yet at home.
Seeing
your way as a necessary phase in a good development
Knowing... and living that knowledge, that the world is a place of developing beings. As long as you judge the actual situation, you don't yet see your way.
Knowing... and living that knowledge, that birth and death are both milestones in a larger journey. As long as you are afraid of aspects of life, you don't yet see your way..
Knowing... and living that knowledge, that openness, acceptance, spiritual Love are the building blocks of happiness. As long as your happiness is depending on the things and feelings of this world, you don't yet see your way..
What
remains to be "done"?
Smiling about the upcoming negative thoughts and letting them go, until they are tired of coming up.
Being One with All in serving and laughing and weeping.
Being ...
by ~ Adrian
Stack