Sunday Morning XVII

Years ago, I practised meditation. At that time, I was mildly successful in reaching samadhi. Today, I remember the total unity, universal harmony and joy I felt then.

It felt then as if I was a drop of water falling into the ocean, my very being becoming the ocean, surging as a wave to heights unknown to me before, then, cresting with an absolute euphoria in the joyous release from all restrictions, all limitations.

In those years, I saw not the diversity of the human experience, yet rather, the brotherhood of all mankind. We were all universally seeking that spiritual plateau platformed on the pillars of all embracing love.

From that memory, I awake today in the world of 2006. And what do I see?

The "hot" topic of news currency, today, is the Muslims who are trying to punish Denmark for cartooning Muhammad, their prophet, though it bothered them not a whit when their cartoonists lampooned the God of Isreal. They, themselves, are not honoring their God as they would have us believe. They are demonstrating willful intolerance of others.

Another, "hot" topic of controversy, is the Americans who bring death and destruction to an innocent country known as Iraq, all in the name of protecting the world from terrorists. They, themselves, are not honoring God at all as they would have us believe. They are demonstrating willful greed and witless fear.

Other countries follow, willynilly, in the footsteps of one extreme faction, or another. Currently, they are coerced, bullied and bribed into crucifying Iran.

Does anyone remember, that one day many years ago, when those who participated in a peace movement joined hands?

They formed a human chain, hand-to-hand, which stretched, unbroken, across the width of America. There was an overwhelming feeling of unity, harmony and ebullient joy that day.

Awesome!

Today, more than at any other time in history, we need to let go of greed, intolerance, witless fear, and the concept of punishment, coercion, bribery and bullying. These are the virtues of evil, whether practised by Muslims, practised by Americans, or by Europeans and Jews.

Today, we need to join hands again, each with another, and form a chain of love, peace, harmony and unity which spans the world.

We need to recover the ability to bless whatever is in front of us, this enlightenment that is intimate with all things. Only when we have accomplished this, can we truthfully say, we are honoring God.
Chae