Today Change Warrior is reposting some worthy contemplation from Rick Jarow on A Culture of Awakening: The Inner and Outer Revolution.
The post ignited some thought provoking ideas that shook me to the core and made me erupt at the cosmic joke being played out for us all.
First and foremost, the post points out: As participants were meditating, emoting, and exploring, my colleague wondered if anyone found it odd that these four hundred white people were being cooked for, cleaned for, and served by people of color.
In Allahabad [India] for the Maha Kumbh Mela, we were 500 plus participants from all over the world. Housed in a gated compound, with an enforced curfew, guarded by the local police force, and being fed and attended to by a local staff of over 100. Some of whom we discovered were their own revered swamis.
As with the author, we are not passing judgment here, but pointing out an observable fact. Bringing us to his next observable fact.
The idea that there is a bigger picture than human society and human history does not seem to occur to many of the proponents of social change and revolution, what to speak of the sanctity of the natural world.
Driven by some burning need, are we blinded and deaf to all else. Is it caused by tunnel vision? Too wrapped up in our quest and blinded by ego? How ironic that mob fervor and the best intentions can so easily trample on what others hold sacred.
There are many who claim to have answers, but those who dare walk their talk are few. You spend some serious money to go to a “self-improvement” weekend instead of Club-Med, then go back home, raid the refrigerator and watch television. Has anything changed?
Given the state of affairs in our homeland and the general trends worldwide, there is a growing need to be aware of everything and everyone and not just living in our own castles of imagined prosperity.
Ask yourself - What do cultures and communities of awakening look like? How can we become a part of them?
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