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Reality's Balance
There is a cyclic drama inherent in every portion of nature…and all points in that drama are mere stages along the way…whether our perspective is broad enough to perceive that vision or not. Reality is dynamic, subject to many forces that drive it on, and always above all else, it seeks balance. The Greeks called this drama hubris and nemesis, the Hindus the law of karma. It serves the same truth… that arrogance, agitation and domination are not the ultimate way of nature, and they will be leveled in due course.
Martin Aronson wrote that commentary in the book he edited called Jesus and Lao-Tzu, the Parallel Sayings. Reality is dynamic as well as complex, objective as well as subjective. It is collective and individualistic at the same time and changes as I perceive it. Real is what I claim it to be, and I’m always changing my awareness and experience of it based on my feelings about it in every moment. At times things are unreal and that reality becomes real to me and I experience the drama in its nature. Reality is a broad perspective based on fact, fiction and fantasy.
The Velveteen Rabbit, a children’s story written by author Margery Williams is an example of what real is. A stuffed rabbit that longs to be loved by his little boy becomes real. Tinged with sadness the story explores the power of love in reality. Margery wrote the book in 1922 and it has become a classic work in the collective reality. It’s called a children’s book because Margery uses stuffed animals to express the emotions of humans, but the message is adult in its description of reality. It explains karma and nemesis but uses other words and phrases to express those thoughts. It overcomes arrogance, agitation and domination but never uses those terms. As the Skin Horse tells the Rabbit:
Real isn’t how your made, it’s a thing that happens to you.
So real is what I perceive it to be through my beliefs and experiences. It holds truth and justice, pain and sorrow, joy and happiness in the box I call my mind and I create a physical life around that box. All of my real experiences become a catalog that I search through so I can be whole in the nature of my consciousness. The real and the unreal blend together to expand my awareness of who I am, and experiencing these real illusions brings the balance of other realities more into my focus consciousness.
Physical life is a series of realities that I create in order to expand in consciousness. The Skin Horse, in Margery’s wonderful book is explaining that to the Rabbit in these words:
What is real? Asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side...
Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out-handle?
Real isn't how your made, said the Skin Horse. It's a thing that happens to you.
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become real.
Does it hurt? Asked the Rabbit.
Sometimes, said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. When you are real you don't mind being hurt. Does it happen all at once, like being wound up, he asked, or bit by bit?
It doesn't happen all at once, said the Skin Horse. You become.
It takes a long time.
That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
But these things don't matter at all; because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
In reality I am a creator who experiences physical life to remember my connection to nature and all life. That reality is never ugly when I am connected to the love I have within me. I may lose my hair, and my eyes my droop and my joints may stiffen before I am aware of that love, but that doesn’t matter because once I’m real, all of that is leveled in the nature of my true consciousness. Reality always balances itself in love.
www.shortsleeves.net
http://halmanogue.blogspot.com/
Martin Aronson wrote that commentary in the book he edited called Jesus and Lao-Tzu, the Parallel Sayings. Reality is dynamic as well as complex, objective as well as subjective. It is collective and individualistic at the same time and changes as I perceive it. Real is what I claim it to be, and I’m always changing my awareness and experience of it based on my feelings about it in every moment. At times things are unreal and that reality becomes real to me and I experience the drama in its nature. Reality is a broad perspective based on fact, fiction and fantasy.
The Velveteen Rabbit, a children’s story written by author Margery Williams is an example of what real is. A stuffed rabbit that longs to be loved by his little boy becomes real. Tinged with sadness the story explores the power of love in reality. Margery wrote the book in 1922 and it has become a classic work in the collective reality. It’s called a children’s book because Margery uses stuffed animals to express the emotions of humans, but the message is adult in its description of reality. It explains karma and nemesis but uses other words and phrases to express those thoughts. It overcomes arrogance, agitation and domination but never uses those terms. As the Skin Horse tells the Rabbit:
Real isn’t how your made, it’s a thing that happens to you.
So real is what I perceive it to be through my beliefs and experiences. It holds truth and justice, pain and sorrow, joy and happiness in the box I call my mind and I create a physical life around that box. All of my real experiences become a catalog that I search through so I can be whole in the nature of my consciousness. The real and the unreal blend together to expand my awareness of who I am, and experiencing these real illusions brings the balance of other realities more into my focus consciousness.
Physical life is a series of realities that I create in order to expand in consciousness. The Skin Horse, in Margery’s wonderful book is explaining that to the Rabbit in these words:
What is real? Asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side...
Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out-handle?
Real isn't how your made, said the Skin Horse. It's a thing that happens to you.
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become real.
Does it hurt? Asked the Rabbit.
Sometimes, said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. When you are real you don't mind being hurt. Does it happen all at once, like being wound up, he asked, or bit by bit?
It doesn't happen all at once, said the Skin Horse. You become.
It takes a long time.
That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.
Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
But these things don't matter at all; because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
In reality I am a creator who experiences physical life to remember my connection to nature and all life. That reality is never ugly when I am connected to the love I have within me. I may lose my hair, and my eyes my droop and my joints may stiffen before I am aware of that love, but that doesn’t matter because once I’m real, all of that is leveled in the nature of my true consciousness. Reality always balances itself in love.
www.shortsleeves.net
http://halmanogue.blogspot.com/
2 Comments
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Comment by Hal Manogue on November 19, 2008 at 7:03am -
Yes, your beauty is your real-ness. Thanks for being so generous with it.
Love,
Hal
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