This country—any country—is about people, not ideologies….
This country—any country—is about people, not ideologies. Ideologies are things. You cannot eat an ideology. An ideology will not love you. Get worked up about what matters.
:- Doug.
Archive for April 29th, 2010
Is future orientation cultural? Is it best? What might be better?…
Is future orientation cultural? Is it best? What might be better? Would you agree the job is to place ourselves in the whole context (which means literally, plaiting together), to see what is truly here?
There are two forms of Now which our cultures work from: 1. the Little Now, or Weak Now, and 2. the Big Now, or Strong Now. The Weak Now is the one in which we live ignorant of the past and the future, or at least not caring about either. This is the Now of the drug cultures and the poverty cultures where it is all about feeling good for yourself each instant. You are getting blotto or sexually stimulated or holding your babies to your breast and this is all that exists or can ever exist. You do nothing about anything but let it wash over you. The Strong Now is one in which the past is acknowledged and where appropriate revered and the future is something upon which to work in the present; all of that, plus the pleasure and pain of the moment enter in and form one larger whole. You hear the call of the past, you hear echoes of the future, you are in the face of what is. You take in, you reflect, you act.
:- Doug.
We are in the center of a dark place, compassed about with a hard shell. We know there is potential—potency—in us. So….
We are in the center of a dark place, compassed about with a hard shell. We know there is potential—potency—in us. So we usually run about in here, sending out roots and shoots here and there and finding ourselves held in. We could meet the shell—and find beyond it a larger world, and beyond that a larger world, and more. This is where we are today: a germ of a seed, with a nourishing world about us, which we think to consume. But if we look, but if we look! There is a larger world still, and it is sometimes called heart, or another person—mother, father, spouse, child. Beyond is a larger world still: among, community, will, intention, possibility. And beyond that even larger: source, ground of being, the threshold of plenum, one. And out there within that, reaching out from there, from hearnow, are hands: our hands, working, loving, giving with abandon, repairing and perfecting the world, light-making.
:- Doug.
