SHACK 4140 EXPECTATION

Courtesy Fearless Culture

 Oh restless mind, a mind of its own, this mind of fleeting thoughts and random fantasies, scudding clouds of thoughts which when observed with a non evaluating awareness feel as nothing and have no real substance and yet they provoke emotions and if latched onto and encouraged they distract the non judgemental witness, the pure awareness into its agenda and scenario.

Sitting still and then the urge from somewhere to do something as if a future event will bring an answer, a wonderful magic solution to any of life's problems and yet when this imaginary destination is reached it often brings disappointment and a shattered expected dream or thought to naught. 

Dashed and despondent that the fresh promise never developed and that once again the tricky little genie is mischievous and has the host running around in circles.  There is word in Yiddish(language) has a word nudnick which is a boring pest I have a word nidnick which means if you walk somewhere or go somewhere, you get your feet caught up, an avoided dog poo ends up on your shoe, everything balanced carefully ends up toppling, it seems to taunt, like the red flag to the bull, it even can take on more serious matters of health and loss.

To remain in the now is an antagonist to the ego and nidnick it is a provocateur in the egos armoury, which is the arsenal of weaponry it has to defend and attack if needed. This is one of promise that the future holds such wonder and promise is a prime distractor. There was once a great healer who had cards printed EXPECT A MIRACLE and he paraphrased it with expect a miracle but leave the details to the Father(God) expectancy without content is a kind of being in the now if there isn't any thought about the outcome. It is potential, something awaiting an outcome often in an explosive or spontaneous demonstrative gesture or happening.  

Sometimes this nudnick is described as a tricky mischievous monkey and is said to be the egos mechanisms at work or play.  How did the ego arise in the first place; I have my own view as we all are allowed. Before thought and awareness of the self came to the human being, the human was instinctual and lived primarily as a hunter gatherer and nature and the human were one as it were. As progress or some say regress the mind became to dominate nature and the rift began to cultivate and alter nature and eventually where we are at present destroying nature and dominating nature by technology. 

The natural 'religion' was to thank and pray to the creator of nature and then it emerged that the creator had 'special' races and gifts bestowed on them and that the creator favoured certain peoples and races and religious ways or worship were formed and priests to make sure their flock did it their way and that the instinctual peoples were primitive and heathen and so peoples began to separate into factions and although early peoples did battle for supremacy usually over hunting grounds and territory it was local and many times healed. I cannot find the healing incident that I researched I may have got bits wrong; argy- bargy was not as noted in my view, some Pacific Islands communities held a five years ceremony and ritual certain Islanders who had  squabbles and intense dislikes would host this ritual, they took it turns every five years, they would all go to this designated Island of the this years five year place, feast, dance, return stolen or contended purchase, insult one another to a really bad degree and then do a cleansing, forgiveness and become friends, one ceremony was the  Ho'oponopono I have used this occasionally. It is having a clean slate and perhaps living in the now and not forcing the mind to stop. The awareness, the silent witness will beckon you back without trying if it the right timing and that comes from tasting the still silent space and somehow the spaces get longer, not by will but by the silent Self within.

SHACK  aka  GEOFF