Today I look for the Eternal in everything around me.
My fifteen year old daughter is a private person, so I won't disclose any information here about her recent surgery or stint in the hospital. I mention it only to emphasize that the dynamic between us has changed in the past month or so. In short, I've been acting like an over protective crazy person. She mentions a sore throat and I rush her into Urgent Care. I can barely drop her off at school.
It hit me today, about the on-going nature of life, that imagination links into the eternal aspect of being, reminding us that lots of what we perceive as happening around us is mental. Now what does this reminder of the Eternal have to do with my daughter?
It's feelings I'm getting at, the link between a mother and child, but ultimately any relationship between two people, where we feel an attachment. Our feelings about these experiences are True only in so far as they stay within the realm of actual being - when they slip into judgments, this situation is "good" or "pretty" or "bad," then we are allowing our mental preconditioning and habits delude us. There is always that potential, even when our preconceptions judge something as "good."
The Eternal lies in non-attachment to those we love, in allowing them to fulfill their own expression of being. Our precept ions about the world that are based on illusory mental conditioning aren't real anyway. In fact, the more we falsely attach, cling to people or situations out of ego, the more we strangle life itself, threatening our own Joy.
In light of the constant movement of life, the eternal balance and release erupting as life it is more useful to shift our paradigm from one of attachment to acceptance and celebration, for what it, for all of it as it is.
Today I celebrate the Eternal in all things.
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