Settling in.
Personally I am settling in to the Bay area, new people, new job, new everything. But in a larger sense, with the US election behind us, we are all settling in now, but to what? Settling can have two meanings: one sort of like snuggling, a comfortableness, an ease; but another meaning can be settling for less, for that which we didn't want or don't really like. What kind of settling is possible for us here? Which type of settling makes us part of the solution, rather than part of some big messy planetary problem?
If we are judging other people's ideas as being wrong, aren't we being part of the tendency of the world to find enemies to disagree with and then to push against them in order to justify our ideas and be right? If we buy into our ideas about the way that the election should have gone, or the way that the world should be (peaceful for instance?) then we are faced with the stark reality that the world just doesn't go along with our ideas about it. There is something outside the realm of ideas that just goes the way it goes without listening to our mental constructions that tell it how to be. Settling can be an easful acknowledgement of that reality, a relaxation from the drivenness of pushing to make life conform to our ideas about it. Arguing with reality just never has paid off in peace of mind or a peaceful planet. Accepting what's Here, we then are free to do whatever we can do about things, without bringing our enemy-making processes to it. At one of his retreats that I went to, Eckhart Tolle said shrugging and grinning in his charming boyish way, "Why argue with it, it's here anyway!" As soon as we are not so busy trying to make the world conform to our ideas about it, we then start to notice how incredibly beautiful and amazing the world actually is. Awakened vision sees the same world, but sees it without the mental filters which make it look like the wrong world. Even acknowledging the pain & sorrow that are part of being human, we walk in a world that is an incredible miracle, just by the fact of what's Here.
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