SHACK 551 SUSTAINABILITY

Everyone can awaken from this dream where they no longer need to experience love through another. It is completely possible for you to wake up understanding you do not need anything to make you happy, and find yourself happy for no reason at all. There is work to be done to experience love this way and not down an easy road; but it is worth it, just to bask in the truth that love simply is.

Blessings,

Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. 

Alberto has written an amazing book named 'The Heart Of The Shaman' and this quote above is from it. Most people I speak too think that a Shaman looks like a wild person in the wilds casting spells and curses and drinking vile concoctions to make you spew your guts up. In some cases this maybe and I have witnessed that and seen the healing and in some cases the fall out. In my opinion anyone who does healing, spiritual practices, yoga, taichi, Qi gong and so on with various herbal remedies are Shamanistic.

The above quote is not what many would expect from a Shaman and Alberto is one of the best.  In some ways this relates to SHACK 550 as it goes off grid from the popular idea of love.  Many seek their knight in shinning white armour, their soul mate, their prince charming, the perfect partner and even when their perfect one dies they will often say ' I still remember their love and often say when so and so was alive we did this that and so on' and live in a past only to be repeated on the replay button and so arrive at best in a modified future. Then are those who dream and fantasise of Mr Right or my special girl, my dream girl and never can find the perfect one. Can perfection exist in any physical form?

I know of several millionaires who are so frightened of losing money, super fit persons are so scared of losing their fitness, film stars, actors, performers, business people, holding the marriage so tight that loss and the norm causes them anxiety and a tight grip and me on about losing identity so that when we are deprived we can take the lesson we were dependant on that fitness, wealth, health, position which becomes our identity or with me not having an identity and yet complete or safe without one even if I make no identity my identity. As long as their is dependence in any way we are at loss when that is gone. We have to be a society and in some ways we are dependant on one another and services. Yet to seek mental and psychological independence is preferable and a balance achieved between self sufficiency and assistance.  In a way dependence causes us to become victims and we may become dependant on getting our love from outside. There is the fine line between arrogance, stubbornness and appreciation of give and take  with reciprocation.     

In the quote above Alberto states 'there is work to be done-----' and in a way this means going off grid to the notions as above.  The work in my view is by meditation and examining the patterns and brain washing one has been exposed too.  Realising we were born a relatively clean sheet, although nuances from previous lives do impinge and we have probably chosen this life to work out the residue, so we can realise that all we are now we have been taught by parents, culture, religion, politics, media and peers. So if we wiped that all out we have to ask who were we before we were born, taken that the foetus has been shown to have indelible experiences from the mother and environment imprinted in its cellular formations as it grows and becomes the base nervous and early memory system.  That is the unconscious fear we may experience that is the background, there is always a mist on the horizon and a saboteur lay in hiding about to pounce. 

 So assuming we get back from off grid as above we might find ourselves empty of a lot of thought and in a light, free happy, not high nor low free flowing mind, we may find we are love, and although we are compassionate we feel self sustained in the love we feel in ourselves, not a selfish ego love, but a quiet peaceful energy that does not need love from others and we feel we are love and that this empty thought kind of mind in which we are coherent, alert, dynamic yet still, the state of balance and equilibrium is self sufficient and we live life harmoniously. Nor are we necessarily unwashed, unkempt, wild or savage we may be seen as non sort of person. 

When asked to describe this mind one is at a loss because this is what one is, not a body although sojourning for a while in it and there are no adequate words to even hint at it. I can only say that the more I meditate the less I feel need and want other than food and few basic commodities like food, water and dry warm place to live, a few clothes and some modicum of health.  Then I am nearly eighty years young and younger folk may not aspire to such austerity, and I am fortunate to have two small pensions.

Then even the young 'off griders' and those older ones maybe know something of what I am alluding too, yet take away the cabins and nature if forced too, some authorities are not liking these people although some have bought their land, it is not profitable for taxes, fuel companies and so on, how would they like to have to return to the city and village, have they just the physical supplied by the natural environment, perhaps I judge too vehemently, and then have I the mind set to deal with old age, loss of health, government cutting down on pensioners rights and so on, this will only be known as life leads us on and destiny seems to shape humanity or does it?

SHACK