The Whisper
About a month ago, I visited a psychic. She spoke to me about my future. Well, she actually didn't say a whole lot about my future, but she did say this, "You are in a time where you don't have to do; you just have to be." I thought about this a lot. It felt like a relief. I have been so overwhelmed by my "you have to do everything now and lots of it" that I was actually becoming paralyzed by it all.
Then, I spoke to a friend while sitting in the Coop cafe, and she told me about meditation and sitting still. She practices Insight Meditation, is retired, and seems pretty content. Time passed, I began to pay more attention to reciting my Bon prayers and keeping the house quiet during the day.
Then, I picked up a journal for my sister-in-law to entertain her while she spends time in the hospital. The journal, Parabola, is always interesting and I thought it might ring a bell for her. I didn't even look at the cover. When we looked at it, I saw the topic, "Many Paths, One Truth". There was an article about the contemplative life and how we perceive it as a life of doing nothing.
My first conscious thought about just being probably came to me while smoking dope and reading "Be Here Now" at 15 years old. But it didn't sink in very far, and the doing train had already left the station. Almost 40 years later, I look at all I have done and think, and ask is that what I was meant to do? Wash those 10,000 dishes, read those 5,000 novels, let those 240,000 days slip away in my frenzy to do, to buy, to have?
And now there is a new book called, Quiet, The Power of Introverts. I haven't read it, but here is the thing...
The germ of an idea formed in my head, but it was also forming in people's minds all over the planet. And now, it's in the news, in our consciousness, it is something we will all talk about. Is it because our lives have become overstimulated by the media? Or is it because of overpopulation and overcrowding causing us to retreat? Or is it because there are so many of us without jobs that we need to make doing nothing enough? I think it is all of these things.
I also think there is no truly original idea. We conclude from what we perceive. These "new" ideas are the amalgamation of our shared thoughts, our dreams, and all that has gone before us. But there are two amazing ideas here. The idea itself, and the idea how the idea arrived. More will be revealed...
Then, I picked up a journal for my sister-in-law to entertain her while she spends time in the hospital. The journal, Parabola, is always interesting and I thought it might ring a bell for her. I didn't even look at the cover. When we looked at it, I saw the topic, "Many Paths, One Truth". There was an article about the contemplative life and how we perceive it as a life of doing nothing.
My first conscious thought about just being probably came to me while smoking dope and reading "Be Here Now" at 15 years old. But it didn't sink in very far, and the doing train had already left the station. Almost 40 years later, I look at all I have done and think, and ask is that what I was meant to do? Wash those 10,000 dishes, read those 5,000 novels, let those 240,000 days slip away in my frenzy to do, to buy, to have?
And now there is a new book called, Quiet, The Power of Introverts. I haven't read it, but here is the thing...
The germ of an idea formed in my head, but it was also forming in people's minds all over the planet. And now, it's in the news, in our consciousness, it is something we will all talk about. Is it because our lives have become overstimulated by the media? Or is it because of overpopulation and overcrowding causing us to retreat? Or is it because there are so many of us without jobs that we need to make doing nothing enough? I think it is all of these things.
I also think there is no truly original idea. We conclude from what we perceive. These "new" ideas are the amalgamation of our shared thoughts, our dreams, and all that has gone before us. But there are two amazing ideas here. The idea itself, and the idea how the idea arrived. More will be revealed...
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