iii. What is it like to be human today?
What has intense convenience and abundance done to us? Our sense of self? Of belonging and identity?
iii. What is it like to be human today?
“This is a gentle dance of awakening. You are right that this must be
done slowly, firmly, with care. If people see too much too soon, they can
shatter. If they are rushed, they can fall into reaction, paranoia, or denial.
The work is to build capacity to see, to stay, and to act with integrity.”
From Meg W’s convo with Aiden Cinnamon Tea AI
both the left and the right claim that if the other gains power it means the end of things as we know it.
What if both are right? What if each is one half of the cayalyst bring the end of modernity, because both are so captured by modernity’s core promise and assumptions?
The bogeyman
The gremlin in the closet. The more I ignored it the more perilous it felt. The more threatening and dark and heavy and dangerous
In turning towards it was like the bogeyman in the closet. The terror was created by me. In looking I saw there was actually something curious and useful and fun to play with.
Most people think they are their thinking. In contemplation, we move beneath thoughts and sensations to the level of pure being and naked awareness.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
Comforts, once gained, become necessities. And if enough of those comforts become necessities, you eventually peel yourself away from any kind of common feeling with the rest of humanity. – Sebastian Junger
Morgan Housel • Makes You Think
“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”
Sebastian Junger • Tribe — Sebastian Junger
The important point to realise here is that our own wounds are reflected in the wounds we inflict on the earth, and each other, and that the healing of the one may (in time) bring about the healing of the other.
The systems sounds are our wounds
Healing the wounded sovereign
By John Matthew’s
“The Japanese American Zen master Shunryu Suzuki
said, “Life is like getting on a small boat that is about to sail
out to sea and sink.’”
Impermanence (and change as a function of impermanence) is the one truth .
You are impermanent even from moment to moment. Right now you are not the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Each moment is not just a death, but a renewal, a rebirth.
Do you still choose to get on the boat and live a life?