A Window of Opportunity

Trials and Joys

Standing by the window and looking at the scene … a person may be mistaken for an eye of the house. For such a house it is … when we equate the experience with the mind or the heart … that is brimming with new hope and enthusiasm. In the past … a person may have viewed promises … but today he tries to change his stand … on what he thought he had seen. Certainly in the fine weather … outside the window … he sees … reality … today … in the many folds of his visions.

Such a window … in the times we live in … must raise a curiosity about what we thought is life … and the ambitions of creation. It took us past the stalwarts of the institutions … the podium of the experts … and brought to the common man's own acumen … his participation … in the phenomenon of the world. The busy historians … scientists … and academics … will no doubt be pouring over their notes in the years ahead to find a theory for it.

One way to depict our recent experiences … may be to refer it as the … Ariyamala* … the cool garland of flowers … that's starting to receive knowledge of itself and the world … in many forms. As the energy centers that relate to the mind and heart … tissue … and jiva of the body … they convey quite an experience of turns around the cherished notions … that lies deep in our desires. We have but all been teased … coaxed … cajoled … pushed … shoved … and guided … to stay with our beliefs … and not give way to fear.

As a result … we find ourselves in the house of the father and mother of the world. It surprises us … because its the house we grew up in. Full of expectations in the beginning … and then a little boring later … which we substituted with our rich imagination. Surprising because … the desires and make believe that we applied to … turns out to be not very different … from what the actual world is. Our little tales … stories … stretches of the imagination … turns out to be simple exaggerations.

The bards sometimes speak of the man … for whom there is no embarrassment … no matter which stage … podium … or … assembly … he encounters in his life. For he belongs. And he is a part of that event which he finds himself in. The ladies say something similar … when they refer to a Genevieve … who is startled by a Kingly Arthur … who united a nation … under one idea. It makes the garland flutter … to new possibilities of achievement by man.

As we turn the corner on the 21^st Century … we must wonder … how we may string our new flowers of experience into another new garland for the future. We have come a long way from the days of the Wicca … who turned into liquid … all their past experiences … in huge pots … and boiled them up … to serve a new diet of taste … fashion … and life statements. Then they poured it into the waiting cups … to be born as children of the new generation. The tradition obviously continues.

And what are we going for this time … eh? I think sisters … the boys rather fancy the idea … that they want to f**k themselves. Yeeeeeehhh! So do all of us! But what are we talking about here? The hearts … minds and bodies ...coming together into one person? That's a tall order … wouldn't Freud be busy? I know … I think I'll get into membership at the Gay Club in town … who knows what creature of the stars … we might meet. Then … we simply boil him up for a new stew!

It certainly comes as curious … when the changes we encounter in societies … meet their match … in the will that we bring to bear … in encountering them. Whether or not its the whizz kid of inventions … the early starter … the one with new ideas … or the one who thought the unthinkable … we were all born prepared for the encounters … that came up recently. We never thought we could of course … but we did … in facing up to the courage it took … to step out of the closet of virtue … cross the bridge of cultures … look into the eyeball of the artistic sky … and pull the iron of past wills out of the fire with our bare hands. How did we do it? I guess we were born to it.

And so we are looking at … breeding and incubating a new generation for the future. Are we passing our determination … understanding … and savvy to them? And so it progresses into dealing with the big issues … and its getting bigger all the time. The next stop … the twilight of man … and the birth of a new specie that will take to the stars. How's that? Not impossible … certainly … plausible … and desirable.

We certainly do find new ways to feed the inexhaustible stream of desires that flows through our bodies … and quite often … we take some time away from our normal mill to do that. One such step takes us to discovering the knowledge of the stars and of the creative endeavor. It was undertaken by the bards of yore … in their insights into possibilities of the mind … and then it was brought into manifestation by the heart of the will. We have added to it … our studies in science … and ensured that we cover all the bases.

Those who are caught in the mesh of the images of death … fail to see … that we are also renewing ourselves … to something stronger and smarter. Its time that we moved out of the past shell of the follower and take the initiative to lead our passions to that which we want. It causes a surprise to think that we may want to leave behind that which has grown into a garden of fondness around the house. That might mean … taking the time to do some weeding.

*   http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Dayran/1311969/

Reviews

[patricia]

I prefer to hold on to the idea that if you want to make God laugh...tell him your plans.
recent time's have far from drawing me out into the world made me regress, disillusioned,
once. the word collective was a world calling people to belief and belonging. Now, with
science and its 'eye' it has turned us into bugs under a microscope and our collective data
as turned us into saleable data fodder for a small oligarchy.
Ethics has been removed from politics, and I fear for future generations, with the myth
scientists have put out of 'over-population'. I believe the most dangerous thing to our
continuing survival is the idea of 'Control' I enjoyed this writing, which I found gave me an
opportunity to voice, if somewhat an opposing point of view, I hope not an offensive one.
I can glimpse some of the things you covered here, and perhaps I will do some weeding
eventually, if I ever come to see the motives of those in charge in a better frame of mind.
Its. like with UN or Eu speak, designed full of whats the word...it fails me just at the moment,
but articulated in a way that few can understand. As though we are signing up to the current, and
our signatures would be relevant, but all is couched in such away that some future agenda
can sneak through the door, because we didn't understand its double meaning.
thankyou for your very interesting and educated write. You know far more than me my friend
on the intellectual level. I hope it all translates into something deeply good. It takes time for
me to work these sort of writes out.

[Dayran]

I hear you ... Pat. I like the comment about ... signing up ... couched and ... future agenda. You are certainly riding the tiger on this. We hope it has a way of helping us understand its double meaning. And we certainly look forward to it doing so. Thks.