My heart is heavy, as I a suspect, for many others, with sadness over the recent events in Paris, France.
Talking about it for hours, exploring the perimeters and heart of light and dark, fear and trust, violence and compassion, hatred and love, calcified resistance to change clinging to one world view and flowing in ease with change.
Change is with us. Nature reminds us of this daily, hourly, minute-by-minute. A moment ago it was dark, shadowed. Now, the sun is rising and the winter forest is full of sun risen golds and light. All of this happened in a matter of seconds. We are undeniably in motion and nothing is permanent.
Much of this exploration is in the choosing of my attention – on the darkness, on the light, and all of the nuances in-between.
The “organism of humanity” is indeed confronted by disease at this moment and it is in both, the light and the dark, in the violence and the compassion, in the resistance to change and in the flowing, in the hatred and in the love.
What happens when the waters are toxic and poisoned, diseased and lacking what is life-supporting? What happens when the body itself is diseased? The invitation is to reflect on the source of the disease while welcoming the nurturing of health, encouraging healing and the absence of disease.
The Waters of Yes are as much about the “flow” of water as they are about the “yes.” This is fundamental to the understanding of the principles being explored here. Let me explain briefly.
One of the principles of water is the dynamics of flow; change, stillness and fury. There is life here, and annihilation. Anyone who is familiar with or who has actually lived next to a river, knows this.
And one of the principles of “yes” is it changes, sometimes completely flipped on itself. One day, a yes means X and a no means Y. Then change happens. And now a yes means Y and a no means X.
The invitation is to consider that this is indeed, natural. That there is flow and change, always. And sometimes it is clear and still, like a spring-fed, lily-blooming pond and other times it is full of fury, the color red from the blood of diseased thinking that leads a human being to take the life of others.
Nature is merely an observer with all of this. From one geological age to another, the passage of humans is but one “blink” of an eye against the backdrop of time.
This in focus, we then get to decide how we are choosing to live – in diseased waters or in health and healing waters.
Paris is a reflection of our current choices as a human “organism.” And our very personal feelings are directly linked to all of this. Mine in particular, are heavy, with sadness. Underneath this though is love, and compassion, and a recognition that these particular waters are indeed laden with disease. A “yes” no longer means violence and a single, unchanging point of view. A yes means compassion and change, a broader more inclusive view. And this IS natural, AND healing…for self and for humanity.
To bring this home to an individual body, when faced with disease, we choose differently our nourishment – from the foods we choose to eat or not, the rest we choose or neglect and the environment we live in that supports us, or doesn’t.
The Waters of Yes invite what is natural, life-supporting and life-affirming. In the case of Paris yesterday, these Waters of Yes invite a different course altogether, a different flow, a different direction, a different river. Not the river of revenge and of fear but the river of love, the river of #porteouverte, the willingness to welcome change with an “open door” because where we find ourselves, is no longer what we mean. Our “yes” has changed. And my invitation is to clarify not only my own version of this new “yes,” my own choosing of the waters that are life-affirming but also YOUR VERSION of what that “yes” is too. WE get to decide…in the heart of these Waters of Yes what these new waters of life look and feel like: in the shadows, and in the light…
The “porte ouvert” in my waters reads: “Welcome to change, much different and even more life –affirming, and loving than ever before..
blessings, in all your directions…
