Re: The Rose and The Bee

Posted by suzyq on 1136814983

Keep in mind free will is available to all who seek it and living life unencumbered becomes then, my philosopy, my understanding.

Truley living ones perception begins with a deeper understanding of the processes involved in ones own emotions and thoughts. Indeed the bee does see the rose differently, as do each of our experiences tell a new story from a diffrent perspective. Meditation upon this refines the mind and emotions allowing one the ability to connect the pieces together or to let them go. To live is to seek liberation, the freeing and rest attained from surrendering struggle for a more peaceful way. It awakens in self a desire for acceptance and brings riches greater than any other wealth, to the experience or rather perception of living, observing, participating, and being.

Many do not see the grieving process also attached to the art of living and observing life, yet it is there. Living in a sense is actually more difficult than the letting go in dying for many who refuse to wake up and find joy and even bliss in their very existance. Each day we live and die to new perceptions until the day we realize we must also live for the moment and one day physically die. Could we not also loose self in the rose and discover a deeper connection? There are great distractions along the way, the ego reminds one regularly there is always tomorrow, yet these false ideas only prevent one from seeing that the only true living is what is happening right now. Not the past, nor the future. It is in embracing the breath of the moment, taking life in with all of our senses. It is all to simple to get caught up in the winds and not fly freely among them as a bee travels here and there, alighting upon a single rose it carefully chose.

I would have chosen the easier path of ignorant bliss in my youth had it been the only option, waited until the day of death to catch me off guard, yet for me other options did present themselves and became clear sooner. I choose differently. I have had the privelege in the past fifteen years to work with many who are dying and know they reached the end and yet strive to instill in them the will to live each of the days they have now to the fullest. They learned each in their own way how to stop and smell the roses, to notice their unique nuances. It is not enough to offer comfort, love and care. Of greater importance is conveying spiritual knowledge from within the depths of ones own self, to awaken it within them. In the acceptance of the dying process and in death itself a transformationl process is born. In compassionate service to the other, I actually learned how to better serve self. Death is neither an experience of deperation or one of heightened euphoria. Rather it is a fact of life as is living. Neither version of death or living is depressing or exciting all its own, but what one makes of the experience, the grey area does exist for those who seek to understand its beauty. For self, I find beauty in the rose petals turned to potpourri, a dried rose who sits in a vase upon a shelf and in the one still blooming upon the vine, even in the one yet to open to its first morning sunrise. It is indeed a matter of perspective and acceptance of each cycle, arriving in each moment.

I have beheld both the living and the dying within my hands and found joy and pain in both. I stopped judging with my mind one to be more desireable than the other. Living my life granted me many opportunities to embrace such a philosophy as this. I created a living will reminding my family and doctors to let me go and not to cling to what I once was, the beautiful rose upon a vine, for now I was choosing in my process to also let go and live fully. I was allowing the sweet rapture of its bliss. Letting go was the most liberating experience of living thus far. In the process of letting go, I also found health had returned to me. Pondering dying and living has awakened within me fresh perspectives, allowed me to search out true meaning for my life and a deeper commitment to my purpose within the greater scope of things. I have delved into the zeal bursting forth from my center and strive to be in service to others and to a more globally conscious state of being, by serving and accepting self first.

May many thoughts add unto the continuing story of life as it is created... manifesting the vision for all humanity from this moment forth. Living is an opportunity to embrace wholeness. I trust that in transforming my own consciousness, I will have an influence on society based upon what is now known to be true of science and have faith that as each individual takes upon them this role of truly living, our world will be restored with a sense of interconnectedness and meaning. For me it is all about remaining in Presence. The changes we seek in our world begin with self and spread outward in every direction infinitely. Holding this state of conscious thought and truly beleiving it becomes the vehicle for transference from one self to the other.

David, thank you...you stretched my box this morning!