Jesus said: If a blind person leads another blind person, both of them will fall into a ditch. Saying 34, The Gospel of Thomas.
Thought and imagery are fine. They naturally arise. They also naturally disappear. When we do not let them disappear, we are blind, stuck in obscuration. We cannot see the vast openness that we are and in which we dwell. We lead ourselves into a ditch. It may be a most comfortable ditch, an old familiar ditch, but it is a ditch nonetheless.
Trapped in images of the past, old thoughts suck our energy. Caught in movies of the immediate and distant future, we ditch ourselves and are not here. Sitting in the present moment(um) entranced, we sit snug within our ditch. The part of me that leads and the part of me that follows are sunk, caught in a time-space warp of our own making.
PHAT! We break clear. Awake. Aware.
Thought and imagery are fine. They naturally arise. They also naturally disappear. When we do not let them disappear, we are blind, stuck in obscuration. We cannot see the vast openness that we are and in which we dwell. We lead ourselves into a ditch. It may be a most comfortable ditch, an old familiar ditch, but it is a ditch nonetheless.
Trapped in images of the past, old thoughts suck our energy. Caught in movies of the immediate and distant future, we ditch ourselves and are not here. Sitting in the present moment(um) entranced, we sit snug within our ditch. The part of me that leads and the part of me that follows are sunk, caught in a time-space warp of our own making.
PHAT! We break clear. Awake. Aware.
I witness so many variations of the blind leading the blind. What's worse is that the blind one in the lead seems to also be deaf, unwilling to change direction when warned of another ditch.
ReplyDeleteAt what point to we stop warning of the ditch, knowing they refuse to acknowledge our voice or even our presence? Being awake and watching the sleepwalkers (blind) is frustrating sometimes.
revLea, I speak of us leading ourselves into the ditch. Like my grandmother used to tell me: Sweep around your own doorstep. The best we can hope for is to get ourselves together. When we are together (the light of our eye is single), the whole world transforms, is different.
ReplyDeletetrue, and thought provoking, unfortunately most of us really like our ditches!! I will take these thoughts and try to break free..thank you
ReplyDeletebrother, geo.
ReplyDelete"sweep 'round yer own doorstep"
i like this. thx, to your Grandmother
The more of us that 'sweep round yer own doorstep", the more energy is created for the blind and deaf to not see or hear, but to feel. LG
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