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UT |
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30-Mar-2003-01:34:38 |
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DMZ |
Has anyone else noticed the silence?
I mean, silence in general is a good thing. But it's been surprising to see how little people have to say here. In a time of war, that is.
Being one of the prime offenders, I'm thinking maybe a little of that has to do with assholes like me who have *very* strong opinions about things and don't have a lick of sense when it comes to expressing them. We may have contributed to an environment that many feel is not the best in which to express their true feelings about what is going down in the world and, more important, what we can do to make it a little better.
So I'm proposing a demilitarized zone, one thread where we can talk about the times we find ourselves in, as perceivers who were taught seeing by a very interesting teacher, and do our best to keep it high-vibe and tantrum-free. It's gonna be a bitch for me. :-)
But here goes.
I drove across the country last week. I had a consulting gig in Wisconsin and it was only for ten days or so and it would have made so much more sense to fly, but to tell the truth I needed a Road Trip. And the idea of a Road Trip In Time Of War kinda turned me on. I'm weird.
And what I found was that nobody was talking about the war. I'd be in a bar and every TV was showing explosions in Baghdad and no one in the bar was either watching or talking about it. And that concerned me, as does the similar silence here.
It's kinda like watching the Academy Awards ceremony before Michael Moore got up. Everybody sitting there, everybody wanting to say something, to do something, to protest or stop this madness. And yet, nobody saying a word.
Until Michael did his thing. Then about half the people gave him a standing ovation, and the other half booed him.
And then Adrian Brody said *his* piece, and the whole audience stood up and clapped.
Sometimes all it takes is for somebody to say something.
For me, this past week has been a veritable realization because, as a writer, I haven't been saying enough, and now as a result of my Road Trip I'm inspired to correct that. And it's been amazing to watch my state of consciousness after I made that decision and started writing again. It's bright and shiny again. Most of the time. It's me, after all. :-)
So I guess my point is that I think the energy that we are all feeling is pushing out a very sad dream: "You can't do anything. You can't stop anything. It's out of your hands. You don't matter."
And too many of us have bought the dream.
I know I had. And I know how much better I feel now that I have...uh...unbought it. I'm working on a better dream. We CAN do something. We CAN stop injustice and tyranny. It is NOT out of our hands. We DO matter. It's just the propaganda that says otherwise.
We DO something every time we meditate. We DO a little more when we teach someone else to meditate. We DO something every time we're sitting around a table of depressed people and we aren't depressed and thus, seeing us, the other people at the table start to remember what it was like NOT to be depressed. We DO a lot just by walking our Way through this world and smiling a little when everyone around us isn't.
We are basically warriors. Rama once said, "You guys are at your best when you are fighting for your lives." So this particular window in time could be a real opportunity, if we're just weird enough to see it that way...
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