It's Time to Wake UP!

Shall we pretend we don’t feel our neighbors pain?  Shall we pretend we don’t know when a child dies of hunger in a distance land?

Shall we pretend we don’t know?

We know.

We feel.

It’s the simple majesty of who we are

We are one,

One organism. 

We cannot not know our left hand

The simple blind denial is of such magnitude that we must forget who we are to stomach it.

It’s time to wake up

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Today, I’m reminded of a journey I took a year or so ago, with plant medicine

In the depths I saw a round brown globe and I could see pain within it.  Somehow I knew it was pain.  As this brownish area grew, so did the feeling inside my body of holding it.  I could feel the pain inside my body, in my heart.  Both expanded in kind.  And every once in a while my mind tried to say “no, no more, I can hold no more”

Then my heart would say “yes, please, let me hold more”

And it would grow, 

The pain.

At some point, I must have shuffled my way of holding it to release some of the burden so that I could still say “yes, please, let me take more”

In the end, when it had ended of its own accord not because I had said “yes” or “no,” I cried tears of gratitude for the gift.

The perfect divine gift

The experience my heart had needed

The one thing my soul longed for, recognized suffering, 

Given so easily.

It was truly magical, like a divine ingredient to make the perfect dessert, to heal my heart.

And much later…

In the quiet …

I turned and asked

“Was this my pain or the worlds?”

“It’s the same” I heard

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