In the US and increasingly around the world we have not understood what our role is in a world that is needing our physical labor less and less to produce a level of comfort that is unprecedented. Survival used to take a lot of work, especially in colder climates and in the farming life. As mechanization has increased we have become more and more sedentary with more discretionary time. But now that our survival has been well organized and taken care of in many ways, we do not seem to be able to move on to explore what else life has to offer. Our accomplishments have made us physically comfortable but uncomfortable within ourselves. We have not achieved a comfort that is based on balance so that we feel at ease, content. We are easily upset by inconsequential incidents in our lives that should not phase us. Many are on a hair trigger and will go off at the least provocation. Is this success? Where do we go from here. Do we just go on consuming more and more and use up all the resources our planet has to offer?
Instead of being satisfied with our prodigious achievements, we want more and more and more. It is not sustainable and it is a glorification of a survival process that should be simply a given which allows us to pursue higher dimensions of consciousness. We have become so unbalanced that turning inward does not look attractive to us because our mind is a scary process of runaway thoughts and emotions that does not seem to be able to be calm.
This excessive survival process is a result of the excess yang building up in our bodies. It is expressed by excess action, the need to do: work, exercise, consume, build, "improve", raise the bar, increase the standard of living. This is compulsive in nature and threatens our very mother earth.
Spiritual process is the yin side of this equation and right now it needs to be brought into balance. Turning inward is the only way to explore higher dimensions of life, that which is beyond the physical. As we turn inward, we find that our lives are capable of being filled with bliss and that we are fantastical creatures of unlimited capacity to expand our consciousness. Bringing balance to the physical allows us to access our spiritual possibilities and to grow on a path towards our ultimate enlightenment.
This does not require more stuff, just more attention.
Blessings and thanks for reading.
Steve
Instead of being satisfied with our prodigious achievements, we want more and more and more. It is not sustainable and it is a glorification of a survival process that should be simply a given which allows us to pursue higher dimensions of consciousness. We have become so unbalanced that turning inward does not look attractive to us because our mind is a scary process of runaway thoughts and emotions that does not seem to be able to be calm.
This excessive survival process is a result of the excess yang building up in our bodies. It is expressed by excess action, the need to do: work, exercise, consume, build, "improve", raise the bar, increase the standard of living. This is compulsive in nature and threatens our very mother earth.
Spiritual process is the yin side of this equation and right now it needs to be brought into balance. Turning inward is the only way to explore higher dimensions of life, that which is beyond the physical. As we turn inward, we find that our lives are capable of being filled with bliss and that we are fantastical creatures of unlimited capacity to expand our consciousness. Bringing balance to the physical allows us to access our spiritual possibilities and to grow on a path towards our ultimate enlightenment.
This does not require more stuff, just more attention.
Blessings and thanks for reading.
Steve
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