Thoughts and other things.
This search for meaning hurts. It’s painful to look and see. I chew up decades, it seems; each one has had a theme and an end. This I can see looking back. But this has been a decade of waste, of destructuring, and of destruction and I can’t see a way out of it. I chant to myself that things must change, things must get better. I tell myself it’s up to me, and then I tell myself something has to be out there waiting to save me. I still don’t know which way is up, so how can I know which way to go?
Trustee Consciousness
We all have a relationship with everything. Obviously the relationship we have with the people and objects in our immediate vicinity is more intimate than the rest of the world. For most of us the most common relationship is possession. In our minds we think we own and possess things like cars and houses and carpets and golf clubs etc. This thinking easily spreads into jobs and tasks and positions and perhaps even other people. “I want you”, and “You are mine alone”, is the essence of many romantic film scripts and song lyrics. What we forget is that this relationship is wrong. It is not possible to possess anything. Care for..yes. Use…yes. But possess…no. You can’t take it with you when you go, so we say! And yet it’s the idea of possession which lies at the heart of all fear, war and conflict. Can you see it? Fear of loss, fear of not acquiring what we have already decided is ours in our minds. So what is a better relationship we can choose which takes all the fear away. Be a trustee. Everything comes to us in trust, for us to use and then to set it free. The consciousness of trustee sets us free of the tension of grasping and guarding. To see ourselves as trustees of everything that we receive, including our bodies, encourages our innate capacity to ‘care for with dignity’. It is a much more relaxing way of relating to the things which we are privileged to receive in life. — www.relax7.com
