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Offering for Nearing, because of 19’s insistence on continued approach and activity, not stopping at the harvest/result, but continuing through the cycle. The offering has been successful and rewarded (by spirit presence) - now this reward is something that should take you further. As long as you are moving and in service of growth, there is no such thing as loss.
Maybe this is a quirky interpretation (well, the question isn't your every day variety either ), but if your question is taken literally, God is 19 (the overseer or observer), seeing you go through a period of decrease, so that he/she/it/they may increase your higher nature. You may currently have no home of your own but God.[/QUOTE]
You know, it isn't so quirky a reply, because it is quite literally true and I've been trying to make sense of it. This period of decrease has been going on quite a long time now and just as it sinks again I think "oh no it can't be worse" and then it is and somehow it is still survivable. In a certain way, I feel such a sympathy with the many people coming up in the news who suddenly, for no reason they can identify, are without a home, without the normal life they worked to put into position, and realising practically speaking what I always knew intellectually [spiritually] -- that our belief, our devotion to service to humanity is what matters and not to lose sight of that no matter the conditions in which you may find yourself. What has occurred in my life has been gradual. For others it seems to often come overnight, or even in minutes.
I'm not under water or suffering as people are elsewhere and wouldn't imply that, but the sense of empathy is still there because I simply can't imagine what I would do were there no hope on the horizon and my family were missing or been swept out to sea. My heart goes out to them while, at the same time, I feel in a quandry myself and responsible to understand what I must do, knowing that my situation certainly isn't the most difficult position anybody in the world is facing right now, although still difficult from my perspective. I suppose I feel humbled to see what others suffer and survive and also in a practical sense am stymied and wondering what comes next in my own life as well, whether I'm handling that properly [making better decisions] and in the right spirit.
What you've said is an interesting way to condense all of that emotion.
One of the things that used to drive me nuts was when I was going through my undoing about 11-12 years ago, and when a well meaning individual would say to me, God is allowing you to go through this now to better equip you to help others later who are going through the same thing. grrrrr, that was SO not what I wanted to hear. What? I hadn't helped and supported others enough as it was? I hadn't sacrificed personal gains for higher principles? What's up with this, Lord? Where did I piss you off?
'The Lord chastises those he loves, and everyone he receives.' (heb 12.6)
Placed in more pragmatic or physics terms, we grow according to the degree of resistance we overcome.
Who sets the bar here, you or the observer? is a good question. Maybe it was set before you were born, and you sealed it. chuckling...
Things change. My dad's spirituality seemed to be summed up by this answer to this life: "No one lives here, we're all just passing through." This will pass, so might as well squeeze the juice from the experience as you wander. Later, when you're up and running on your game, this time will hold great value to you. It already has.
Their Father, unlike yours Soooo, would have completely disagreed as he had no interest whatever in the rest of the world. He would have stayed where he was, paid off the mortgage, sent everybody to University of Arizona and kept the money in the bank.
The I Ching is said not to reveal directly the thinking of deities. As Alfred Huang writes under Hexagram 1: "The purpose of the I Ching is not to expose the nature of the ... divine deities but to offer guidance for favorable action in one's daily life and at the same time to avoid misconduct that invites misfortune."
The thought of God is said to be only love for you, no matter what you do.
Quite possibly you're angry at their father -- and for that moment you were NOT taking the path of reducing your anger. You were not taking the path of reduction, just then, while thinking you had let your kids down for having nothing tangible for them to fall back on.
The I Ching might also be saying to you that you've learned how to give everything, but without sacrificing what's really important to you.
What do you mean by not having any place to live? Are you living in a forest and sleeping in a hammock strung between two trees? I'm asking this because sometimes we overstate things. I tend to do that sometimes ...[/QUOTE]
By this, I mean that the places I've lived in over the past couple of years, rentals, have been successively sold. Where I am now I must be out by the end of the week. It is more complicated because my daughter came home very ill and has been in bed for about five or six weeks now. She will be there a lot longer. We literally had nowhere to go, then friends who heard what has happened and who are not here at the moment said to use their house until the first week of May. So our things are going into storage, and in a month, if I haven't found a place, we are "up a crick" as they say. This is the third time this has happened to me in as many years and I'm frankly quite fed up with it. Especially since I fix these places up, pay rent besides, and the owners invariably decide if they are ever selling they should while my things are in there -- because it looks so Better Homes and Gardens, so to speak. The last few months of my tenancy its a case of showing potential buyers through one after another, somebody buys it. And then I lose my home again.
This time, it is looking very bad because I just plain haven't found anything. Without our Australian friends, I'd be in big trouble -- especially with a sick daughter here besides. So, I mean that, by some miracle, we have a place for a few more weeks. And then -- it could be that hammock strung between two trees in the forest for me and a sick girl. This Winter was a partially heated cottage in the worst blizzards in years so, close enough to living al fresco!
The question is flawed, because there is no one great monotheistic god in the Yijing and in ancient Chinese thought generally. Why ask such a question in the first place, even if you believe in such a god?
There was a man who was drowning, and a boat came, and the man on the boat said "Do you need help?" and the man said "God will save me". Then another boat came and he tried to help him, but he said "God will save me", then he drowned and went to Heaven. Then the man told God, "God, why didn't you save me?" and God said "I sent you two boats, you dummy!"
remember this one:
SO -- my daughter and I are just now waiting for the first boat to appear and wondering what happens if there aren't any? I'm thinking that this in itself would be a message, however, not sure what it means since I've never been in that spot. So far, there's always been some miraculous last minute life raft -- like the place we're going to on Saturday for a month.
:bows: you must have found a lucky lilly pad
It sounds like a very tense situation, Arabella, and my heart goes out to you. Personally, I don't read that you've ignored any 'boats' at this point so I am not sure what chingching means. In tense situations like this - which I know can be very trying when one would like to be able to make plans, and is used to doing so - I have found that it is important to just take the next step, and then the next, and so on...as they present themselves. It is a bit like free-falling, and faith is really at it's best when we find ourselves free-falling. So true, as you say, the things of this world can be washed away with no warning. sometimes in spite of the best laid plans.
I love your response from the yi. and I love what Vince said. When so much is taken away, there is only room for increase, especially - and because - when everything goes, we are left with the greatest possession, ourSelf, from which all new solutions will spring. I am certain you will be provided for, as will your daughter, and I hope she gets well with newfound strength.
I always remember what Ravi Walsh said, quoting Byron Katie : NOthing happens TO you, it happens FOR you. It can seem so otherwise at times like this. To me that quote said to me that in all tense situations, the part of me that Knows is in charge and is rearranging the landscape. You are also the You who designs the fabric of life and it is vast but seamless, the Overseer is God, but it is also You, and Me and so on. One day at a time, move forward and track the miracles/coincidences/dreams that lead you forward like the bread crumbs in Hansel and Gretyl.
bless you, lots of love
Are there any rentals that will not be going up for sale? Long-term rentals or leases for one year, even?
people in this part of the world who rent property have estates with a large number of houses on them. What they let out is often an unheated or partially heated hovel so to speak.
A Course in Miracles says that we are all still living inside the mind of God, a place we never left. That all this we are experiencing is a dream. But the 'this is all a dream' point of view seems to get me nowhere and no place when faced with a lot to do, like moving house.
beautiful post bamboo . .
I have had my own dealings with this mourning grief for many years now, and I'm finally beginning to realize that the hardest part of it is the way it gets entangled with a kind of guilt . . sometimes it feels not only like mourning for the loss but also for my inability to stop it or handle it all in one go
. . that feels the cruelest part of it. Staying in the moment as you said, and doing so again and again, and softly returning there, as scary or impossible as it might seem, has been the sweetest, most honest thing we can do for ourselves . .
:bows:
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).