Dear Ones,
I am curious about your relationship to the future. From Dictionary.com it is defined as time that will be or come after the present. What does that actually mean? What is “after the present”? Isn’t that just more present? Or is the future completely made up based on what has already happened? Is it just images and projections happening in our heads? Can you find the future right now? Does it exist?
And I wonder much time you spend in your head thinking about the future, planning about the future, protecting against something that could possibly happen in the future? Trying to control life.
I recently found myself on the long drive home from the airport, at the close of a lovely trip to visit family, planning our next vacation. I had not yet let my feet touch bare earth here before I was in my head, projecting into the future to leave this patch of earth for another patch of earth somewhere else, at some other time.
When this was lovingly pointed out to me, I was able to pause and turn in. In doing so, awareness dropped more deeply into the body, and I could feel what I was avoiding. I could feel the physical discomfort of a long day’s travel. I could feel the sadness of leaving loved ones, as well as love and gratitude. I could feel the resistance to the responsibilities of daily life. In allowing all of this to just be here, my whole being softened and landed in the present moment.
In that I could feel the richness of my body - the aches and fatigue, the heaviness. I could feel the earth beneath and around me. I could sense the mysterious vastness of life force breathing me, driving the car. The same mysterious vastness of life force burning the forest around us. I could feel the natural unfolding of what we call life, the Divine wisdom that is so much more trustworthy than my future planning mind. What a relief! The whole idea of a “future” fell away, and the need to control released.
With no idea of a “future” what is here? What is left? How is life experienced? how does life unfold?
You are all welcome to join me to discover for yourself what it feels like to trust the natural unfolding of the universe, right now. And now.
We plan to gather (and we will wait and see on that) on Saturday August 2nd at 10am Mountain time. All are welcome.
9am Pacific time
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