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Even if I stay here for another 15 years, I will still -- because of my nativity, age and retired status -- be "only passing through"
Thank you so much, radio, for this beautifully expressed reality check. I consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and yet how easy it is for me to let "the main thing" go so quickly out of focus! You are right, of course, to mention the unmistakable symbolism of the mountain (the body and the gravitational forces that make it so homey, sluggish and moribund) and the fire (the subtle and explosive energies that propel, exhaust and eventually destroy the traveling body and the homebody alike). Your reading of the lines has also helped me return to the essential nature of the problem fueling my question. You and, on a more practical level, Liselle have helped me to see myself in the figure on the left in the drawing you attached to your post. “What about me”, indeed?Hi Wyndham,
"However limited, how can I become more creatively involved in the life of my little community?"
56.2.3 to 64 ~ Show them that we are all travelers "just passing through" this earthly existence together.
These transient bodies of ours (56) are but temporary abodes for a sublime Spirit made manifest. We can 'rest' in them, for a time (line 2)...
...but, fundamentally, the 'house' of the body has been on fire since the day you were born, and with each passing day it becomes more urgent to find a way to escape its limitations (line 3)?
Everyone has this same problem, including ~ and perhaps especially ~ those who feel secure in their dwellings, families and friends?
The truth of the Yi is: The journey never ends ~ even for householders in a tiny village on the edge of the Burgundy hills ~ until we leave our villages and Return to our True Home in the pure Spirit on the far shore of attachment to form?
Your realization of this truth for yourself initiates a proto-language inner beacon of resonance...
...which wordlessly calls others out onto the road of Life with you...
...so that we might share this journey together.
You can make a huge difference!
Safe Travels!
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"How can I become more creatively involved in the life of my little community?"
Answer 56.2.3. > 64
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).