{"id":2537,"date":"2011-10-11T21:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T04:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2011-10-11T21:38:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T04:38:54","slug":"manic-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=2537","title":{"rendered":"Manic Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photograph by Cindy Wilkins, copyright 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All around me I see the carnage of lives that weep from open wounds oozing with infected bile which sting as the salt from toxic tears rush into the hole in their heart. From one fire to another, I watch my dear friends run with buckets to dowse the flames, only to find they have been carrying kerosine and are now engulfed in the blaze of hell with No Exit in Sartre.<\/p>\n

Over there is a young woman who has cut herself for the billionth time and now panics that maybe she has gone too far tonight. Another sage is in tears as she talks to her lover on the phone and wonders how an unworkable situation could ever possibly work. We all wonder all the time … are we doing the right thing … are we reading the signs right?<\/p>\n

Should we stalk<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Or should we walk<\/em> away?<\/p>\n

And do we actually have a choice?<\/p>\n

As I look at the manic moon, there are no easy answers. Nothing is certain. Even our uncertainty may fade one day. But rest assured that edgy feeling of dis-ease will get replaced by a new disordered mental concept. Because we never really run from our problems. We never actually close the book on our broken heart. We only ever trade one neurotic thought in our monkey mind for another greater or equal distraction.<\/p>\n

And they ARE just that. Distractions from the Truth. The Truth that tomorrow never does come. The Truth that we are not as small as we think we are. The Truth that we don’t know and we have forgotten far more than we will ever know in this tiny spec of an existential existence. The Truth that everything is Perfect. Just as it is.<\/p>\n

Despite what our mind is telling us in the moment…<\/p>\n

Regardless of the three alarm disaster siren that drowns out the bird song outside our window….<\/p>\n

THIS is ALL WE HAVE.
\nEnjoy this moment.
\nOr not.
\nDance in the rain
\nWhile you weather the storm
\nTHIS is ALL WE HAVE
\nBe happy or not
\nBut SEE the Truth.
\nBecause in that Seeing
\nYou realize
\nthat You Are
\nThe Man in the Moon
\nand
\nthe Moonbeam
\nthat lands on
\nthe empty space
\nin the back of
\nyour Eye (I).<\/p>\n

Namaste<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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