Beyond Duality

Slow down, breathe in, breathe out, be curious about what is around us, don’t go inwards too much today but be curious about what is happening all around us. Enjoy all the life that is happening from the molecular level to the grand scale of a giant wave.  Be curious. Smile and be curious. Each moment is a gift. Each moment that we live is an opportunity to be curious and to be open minded about the possibilities of loving more fully and more expressively. Each moment is a moment of loving exchange, either between parts of ourselves, our lovers, our neighbors, our friends, our family members or our children or the animals and plants and minerals around us. Be wide eyed and see the innocence in everything, especially when it is challenging to do so. Especially in those moments when it is very hard to see a speck of innocence. For what is innocence but a learning experience that has not occurred yet. Innocence is wisdom in the making. Wisdom is innocence taken forward through time and space and given the gift of experience, perhaps loss, perhaps grief, perhaps trauma, perhaps something even horrific. When one becomes wise, one gives away innocence in exchange for wisdom, not all of it but a part of it that is a death of something. This death creates new life, new opportunities, new lenses through which to see reality. But through each new wise lens is the death of innocence. We can see this death as sorrowful and sad, or we can see this death as part of the cycle of life, of regeneration, of learning how to be more mindful, more giving, more loving, more resourceful, more kind and more authentic. We are always regenerating, we are always in process of dying and rebirthing ourselves, but unlike a wheel, we are ascending in our regeneration cycles, we are gaining courage, strength and more love with each death and rebirth cycle. We can stay on the endless wheel if we choose to do so, but we do not have to. We can say thank you each time some part of our innocence dies, and we can intuitively know in our hearts that we have been given a gift of wisdom, of truth, of learning how to love more fully so that we do not have to hide any part of ourselves when we feel ready. We can fly and be as present as the hummingbird who dive bombs and dances with the one she loves. We can hold all of our experiences together like a bouquet of flowers that, flower by flower, makes up the whole range of our experiences, thorns, sticky leaves and wilting petals too. Let the layering of our experiences be so far beyond duality thinking that we can see clearly through the facade of duality into the authentic sparkling rainbow light of what it means to be a sentient being here on Earth. So be it.