What does it mean to be sacred? I feel some people impose a bar in which experiences of life wait in line and must be tall enough to get on the ride of sacred. Periodically they show up in life, one right after the other but if they don't measure up we disregard them. This is a pattern I have seen in myself. However, it is but mental conditioning and can thus be broken. I just don't see a point in not enjoying something to its fullest spiritual potential when I can.
I hold the breaking of barriers, or the crossing of a thresh hold to be very sacred. Not because I am a vampire and require permission to enter a house, but because of the transcendent symbolism.
So I figure that if I'm just letting life come to me and I'm judging it by the bar I described earlier, than I should destroy the bar and become the life that hoped so ever patiently to be included by myself.
I'm no expert, and nor do I claim to be, however, that being said I have done my fair share of reading on the philosophies of indigenous native american tribes, such as the Yaqui. The teachings of many tribes, both in South America and North, are of the integrity of one's words and thoughts. Integrity, if you think about it for as long as I have and break it down into it's roots, seems like the point of integration, where reality meets spiritual intention. When I say spiritual intention I mean something more innate than simple emotional desires which can be dispersed and understood through reason, or logic.More Yaqui teachings led me to a book entitled No Ordinary Moments, showing me that to disregard any event in life is to disregard myself. Just as integrity connects one's thoughts to words, attitude connects one's integrity to the undeniable truth of life, completing the circle started with one's spiritual intention. But since each person is on and of the earth, the spirit, or energetic life- force, of every human is intrinsically is composed the same perpetual and mystical qualities that provide continuum to universes which could contain and sustain life on planets just like earth. The human mind is a universe within a greater universe, and there is something sort of sacred and beautiful about the way it all fits together and I sure am glad to be apart of it.
This was a cool post. Here's why:
ReplyDelete1) You didn't stick exactly to the prompt, but your down-to-Earth rhetoric and creativity were truly shown here.
2) You backed up everything you said with books that you've read on your own and that's pretty awesome.
3) Your idea that breaking thresholds is sacred is so unique and honestly beautiful.
This is the best post you've put up for shizzle and I'm surprised no one else commented on it. Rad!