I felt welcomed to commune with peacocks in a surprise cage, situated in Kingston New York. I sat on stones to be nearer and they sat too.
Almost eye to eye, through the chainlink,
this time together felt very informative. How did a peacock come to be here? How did I?
Where are you? How did you?
“How the Sun Was Brought Back to the Sky” was a surprise read, as I judged books by their covers and lightened heavy shelves. There’s bottomless wisdom in children’s tales and this Slovenian folk story shared by Mirra Ginsburg has incredible drawings to accompany it. Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey have a great hand for cute creatures and landscapes.
Studying Chinese Medicine has forever changed me. It’s more than a system for health, it’s a way of living. It’s one way of describing universal things, the universe itself. So I am reading about this tale of the sun’s absence and return, and it’s meaning is many-fold. The colors, numbers, and animals involved tell many things at once. The Qi of each character or situation expresses as one might expect. The story goes through my inner and universal narrative and creates a deeply stirring experience.
The commonalities of our symbols are explored and discussed by many (George, Jung, Campbell, Rudhyar come to mind first,) and can be incredible guides… to understand children’s stories, to understand ourselves.
You’re a series of stories, and curiously shared. Who is two-dimensional you?
I’m not calling for a demotion in regard for the written word, I’m wondering how do-you-do on pen to paper or key click to internet?
We know we’re missing something, we allot for it in the experience of writing or reading. That third dimension of experience is full of essential information.
What about the process of assessing our being? How do-we-do in our medical records and maps of experiences named to parts? Are we missing a dimension or an expression of it? How do we allot for miracles in health?
Practice non-action.
Work without doing.
Taste the tasteless.
Magnify the small, increase the few.
Reward bitterness with care.
See simplicity in the complicated.
Achieve greatness in little things.
In the universe the difficult things are done as if they are easy.
In the universe great acts are made up of small deeds.
The sage does not attempt anything very big,
And thus achieves greatness.
Easy promises make for little trust.
Taking things lightly results in great difficulty.
Because the sage always confronts difficulties,
He never experiences them.
Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
There is nothing so kingly as kindness and nothing so royal as truth-
are words that I wore around my wrist on a thin metal bracelet from a friend. She gave it to me casually after noting my delight in the message. We were eleven, and the saying took easy residence in my memory and a happy place on my arm for years.
I’ve been considering kings and the kingdoms they build, what role our personal truth has in creating cohesion or coercion. I’ve been considering the Chinese Medicine description of the Heart as the Empress or Emperor, and the nobility of a still flame.
What informs your Heart? What is your kingdom like and the truths that illuminate it?
Photo by Stefan Spezio
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