If you were a flat lander, had only 2 dimensional referencing, you would have no idea of the 3D perspective. Map vs on the ground terrain experiencing. It is the same with contents vs context, wave vs ocean, and as Martin Buber cites, I-Thou.
We have a tendency to float in our current habituated perspective until something jars us free or beckons on. It could be a challenging event, serendipitous encounter, or the continued inner quest. The question arises of what am I missing, or what is to be understood here now?
Yoga
gives us tools for this inner inquiry but we have to apply them. Then
after consistent practice and strong inclination to be free of
shackles of misunderstanding and ignorance we begin to see from a
higher level. It is like looking out from a tall building at the
bottom floor into a park. You see kids playing there. Then you take
an elevator the to 86th
floor and look down at the park where the children are still playing.
Both views are valuable. One is more centric and the other more
expansive. When both are considered the viewer's awareness of
balance, unity and wholeness becomes more greatly appreciated.
So,
the opportunity of 2018 is to shift and bring a new perspective to
what is arising in you, for you, and as you. It could be considered
a mountain top view, higher up vs low down. Low down is necessary but
so is higher up. Can you live as comfortably in the known as well as
the unknown.
Can
you find individual sanctuary and stillness time as part of the
shift?
What
are some of the important practices that you might bring to bear?
They might be learning to ask the right questions, some of which
might be universal and some uniquely individual to you. They might be
asking for help, admitting at long last that you need a higher up
view.
The
opportunity is to hold the yin-yang perspective and energy, uniting
with it and being it. The work before us is to be creative,
contributory, adventuresome, and satisfying. It is to reveal what is
wanting to be seen and witnessed. It is us showing up, cherishing the
journey, and doing the work.
Writer,
poet, thinker, activist Joanna Macy sees us being in the potential of
three epochs:
Business
as usual
The
Great Unraveling (breakdown)
The
Great Turning (turning to love, wisdom vs on each other)
Author
of World as Lover, World as Self, she writes “It is my
experience that the world itself has a role to play in our
liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up --
release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true
nature.”
“The
heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”
― Joanna
Macy
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How
might you open you today?
You
can listen to her talk with Krista Tippett in 2016, or read the
transcript, at
Richard
Hammer, Present Wholeness Yoga, 1-1-18
