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Thank you to all who wrote in. Something Barbara said brought up another thought. Barbara wrote:
Richard,
I can totally relate to what you wrote.
If I wrote out the story of the last 20 years of my life, I can see a theme that goes along with the theme of the Harmonic Convergence and now "the end of the world as we know it."
And thank goodness it feels like a new world, at least inside of me and around me too. The way to change our world for the better is one person at a time and if we are a student of our own inner life IT is happening.
Love to you,
Barbara
The idea that a prophecy can be fulfilled in many different ways brought this story to mind:
More than 1000 years ago there was a prophecy which was highly celebrated by the Tibetans of that time. The prophecy stated that the borders of Tibet should be sealed, no outsiders should be allowed entry, in order to preserve the spiritual purity of their culture. It went on to say that some time in the future there would be a cataclysmic event in the Lhasa valley which would kill 3/4 of the people living there. This event would be a signal that it was time for Tibetans to leave the Tibetan plateau and carry their spirituality out into the rest of the world. This is not to say their religion, but their spirituality, the true compassion of their hearts.
In the course of time the borders were not sealed and much of the western world crept in, a car, a movie camera and projector, flashlights, wrist watches, magazines, and so on. It turned out that when the actual cataclysmic event occurred, an earthquake which cracked an ancient and holy temple in 1981, there was no one in the valley to celebrate the fulfillment of the prophecy. It was just a horrifying earthquake to them. However, Tibetans had already been flung to the far corners of the globe by other events. The prophecy had been fulfilled, though not in the manner foreseen so long ago.
The sad part is that spiritual sensitivity had diminished to the point where no one in the Lhasa valley could recognize the culmination of a prophecy which had been proclaimed so many years before. Perhaps we're in a similar situation now.
Perhaps there is something beyond our cultural imaginings, beyond the quick and easy doomsday scenarios so popular and sensational, which we are here to be a part of.
May we set aside our previous ideas, our thoughts, biases, and beliefs, and simply be. May we be the observers who join in when called, the volunteers who respond from the heart. For those who feel pulled to assist a world in transition, may we each answer as called.
Thank you,
Richard
Richard,
I can totally relate to what you wrote.
If I wrote out the story of the last 20 years of my life, I can see a theme that goes along with the theme of the Harmonic Convergence and now "the end of the world as we know it."
And thank goodness it feels like a new world, at least inside of me and around me too. The way to change our world for the better is one person at a time and if we are a student of our own inner life IT is happening.
Love to you,
Barbara
The idea that a prophecy can be fulfilled in many different ways brought this story to mind:
More than 1000 years ago there was a prophecy which was highly celebrated by the Tibetans of that time. The prophecy stated that the borders of Tibet should be sealed, no outsiders should be allowed entry, in order to preserve the spiritual purity of their culture. It went on to say that some time in the future there would be a cataclysmic event in the Lhasa valley which would kill 3/4 of the people living there. This event would be a signal that it was time for Tibetans to leave the Tibetan plateau and carry their spirituality out into the rest of the world. This is not to say their religion, but their spirituality, the true compassion of their hearts.
In the course of time the borders were not sealed and much of the western world crept in, a car, a movie camera and projector, flashlights, wrist watches, magazines, and so on. It turned out that when the actual cataclysmic event occurred, an earthquake which cracked an ancient and holy temple in 1981, there was no one in the valley to celebrate the fulfillment of the prophecy. It was just a horrifying earthquake to them. However, Tibetans had already been flung to the far corners of the globe by other events. The prophecy had been fulfilled, though not in the manner foreseen so long ago.
The sad part is that spiritual sensitivity had diminished to the point where no one in the Lhasa valley could recognize the culmination of a prophecy which had been proclaimed so many years before. Perhaps we're in a similar situation now.
Perhaps there is something beyond our cultural imaginings, beyond the quick and easy doomsday scenarios so popular and sensational, which we are here to be a part of.
May we set aside our previous ideas, our thoughts, biases, and beliefs, and simply be. May we be the observers who join in when called, the volunteers who respond from the heart. For those who feel pulled to assist a world in transition, may we each answer as called.
Thank you,
Richard
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