SHACK 4127 FREEDOM

Courtesy Darius Fox

Sitting doing Qi Gong with my eyes closed I heard the chirping of the birds, a delicate sound, quaint, and I smiled spontaneously and a beautiful rapture ensued and I felt so free and felt I could just fly away in this free flowing stream of bliss.

I wondered do the birds and animals feel this, I felt the trees did and I then felt they all grow and live without thought. This is their nature freedom, they do what Life created them to do, their natural expressions and life is freedom and because of that when not threatened they move with ease, they are loose in limb, tendon and muscle, that is why they are graceful and easy to watch, the ease and grace of the uncaged, the bear caged and walks endlessly around its cage crunched up and sad it only felt free and easy before capture, it knew the only thing that it was free and yearned for that life giving energy and with us humans we are caged in many ways and to see a free human is a thing of beauty.

The little chirping teachers connected to my freedom, I was in a cloud of something heavy and when that first chirp sounded it immediately without thought or will brought a smile so natural so without thought or effort, this was Life in these chirping birds speaking to the Life in me. I realised afterwards that Life is freedom and why do we humans create boarders, territories, wars, broken hearts in relationships, why do we smile at babies because they are free until we screw them down. 

I realised how the subtle feelings before thought came into mind and body, just feelings, maybe from way down and had grown into an entity, a splinter mind of its own, now a cloudy misty nebulous murky drop down thing, not distinct by subtly present. This maybe accumulated from many pasts, the dim history of time lines perpetuated by karma and sought after when death took hold and the soul hungered for the past emotional high or wanted to complete unfinished business especially as it had a faint mere fine touch of the freedom it could not have had in that particular host body and incarnation.

So I was created by Life and Life only knows freedom and as that freedom engenders joy it also is love in abundance an unconditional love which sets every part of creation free and us humans could be free if we could unlock the prison of our conditioned inculcated mind. I am a prisoner to my own thoughts often these thoughts are someone else's thoughts I have taken in as sacrosanct and have written my own bible which is far removed from the Life of Life of Creation.

SHACK   aka    GEOFF

 As to why we encapsulate ourselves in a shell a carapace and plastron, perhaps because we have been taught we are flesh and therefore committed to birth and death with tragedy in between and suffering, war, disease and torment is normal and because to the fleshly senses we could not comprehend an invisible Creator and worshiped the creation and not the Creator. We literally could not or would not look or search beyond the human senses and seemingly frailty and so confined ourselves as slaves to the flesh and the seasons of birth, adolescence, adulthood, elderly and finally some hazy days sinking into oblivion or painfully dying in a hospice after some years of pain and wheelchair bound existence. Yet a little bird and a tree can on a day in the morning sing its happiness and joy and the stillness of the tree and in a lapse of the stream of thought connect with that beneath thought which is floating on the surface and take one to beneath thought to something that the birds and trees know so well. SHACK