We can choose to perceive the mundane as a grand, and weird mystery, or a boring dump. We can, and do, edit our viewpoints from multiple perspectives in every moment: spiritual, self-absorbed, short-sighted, hopeful, angry, in awe, confident, un-knowing, detached, add-on ad-nausea. As Buddha said, if you are sad, wait until the next breath. In last week’s Breath, my viewpoint struggled with personal boundaries, and short-sighted-crankyness. Buddha was not at hand, but you were. Many took time to remind me what is important, and how to cross over old thresholds. You held the vision until I could pick it up again for myself. I am grateful to all of you who wrote. It helped turn the corner toward the mystery, and magical thinking held in this week’s Full Moon, or perhaps I needed to simply wait until Buddha, with my friends, came forth. Last week, another far more mysterious and seemingly difficult boundary was crossed by Steve Jobs. But since he said with his last breath, “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” We might assume impossible shifts of perspective and consciousness come when we need them, and come when least expected. They come as we live. By that, I mean, they are highly personal views and expressions. Steve Jobs’ life was extremely passionate and full of wonder. “Oh wow.” Is just what his personal ‘practice’ said time and again. When George Harrison died, his last words were, “Love one another.” That was the sound of his life, those were the songs he put into the world year after year. Last words are the most powerful because who has time to re-think death with half truth’s and correct syntax? The breath can only hold the core of the soul at that point. What will you say on dying? Where is the… Read more »
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