第二、 引領信仰的老師，居然會表達意見，這讓人驚訝嗎？老師的角色不正是要喚醒人們，我們正進入危險水域嗎？旅途中，並不總是充滿歡笑、寧靜。旅途是發現真理的過程，看清楚我們眼前正在開展的事物。為什麼我們的社會，會滑進一個充滿混亂的局勢，更別提敵意。
我們對於看清惡魔指數的良知，與辨別的能力，越來越黯淡。最終人們無法判別何者為真？何者為假？某人是否真得是恐怖分子？某人不是？誰知道呢？然後我們會聳聳肩說：『這很重要嗎?』
信仰的過程，只有一件事: 【看清楚】。我們進化到一個全球村，進化的過程，充滿巨大的艱難與痛苦；可能還會更糟。為什麼？因為，討論有機食物，感覺很棒；但很少人真正願意瓦解他們個人的圍籬，甚至遠低於他們的國家願意融入世界合作的一環。我們並沒有成長到那種階段。我們這一代負責想像出那樣的畫面，但恐怕有生之年，看不到它實現，全球化的視野。並且，我們是紮紮實實活在舊有世界，又眼看它崩解的一代。那裏有我們熟悉與熱愛的一切。要走過來，走到新世界，不容易。不管我們把”整體性”與”合一意識”多理想化。這個事實，是我們現今整個混亂底下，最重要的東西
我們必須承認，自己就是正在開展的混亂與衝突的一部分。我們是混亂的攜帶者，混亂是我們，我們是混亂。但我們有選擇性，成為解決方法的一部分。我們能夠，我們也必須，不向惡勢力投降。那些負面力量，只會拼命製造恐懼。雖然很多事看來的確蠻嚇人的，我們必須運用靈魂的資源: 而祈禱呢？感覺是最好的？但當我聽到一群笨蛋，以領導人之姿，躲進祈禱的保護傘，我就一陣無名火。我告訴你，我先是一陣暈眩；我從未宣稱自己是大師，或開悟的存有，我腳踏實行走，且不屑一些騙子、笨蛋，就跟任何人一樣。
有人會問我，那信心呢? 難道你對事情終將有解，沒有信心嗎?
信心需要靠行動釋放出來。這是我們這世界的運轉法則，也是神的運轉法則。我們主宰了這場混亂。一些以為、或相信、或希望、神會突然跳出來解救我們的人，大錯特錯。核彈可能將我們毀滅，如果我們任由瘋狂引導我們。自由意志，包括走到地獄的方向。也就是，我對未知的神聖，充滿信心，無限的信心。這可能讓你感到矛盾，那又怎樣，我不在乎。我生活在靈性神秘的內在境地，我熱愛這個核心所在。
所以，面對現實吧〜各位！是運用你靈魂力量的時候。你的意識，與你的良知。這不是政治宣示，只是對你人性的呼喚，與對祈禱力量的呼喚
神，請包圍我，與我愛的人們。以清晰與勇氣的恩典，圍繞著我。我需要仰望我的靈魂，看得比我的肉眼還遠；我需要傾聽我的心，遠超過聽取外在吵雜的噪音。請引領我到任何良善的道路，幫助我，當我不知別人正在經歷甚麼，不要隨邊批評別人。我為自己做的事，就是在為每個人做；如果我對一個人好，我對所有人好。即使某些日子，善良需要勇氣。神請包圍我，讓我遠離自己內在的黑暗，永遠朝向光明而行。阿門
Hi Everyone,
Well, I appreciate your feedback on my post yesterday. And now I will offer some feedback, if that’s okay by you, as they say. First, there is som⋯⋯ething to be said for matters of spiritual conscience – not consciousness – but conscience. That is, there comes a time when good people need to speak up when confronted with the face of evil. If not you, then who? Speaking up is not being “political”; it is an act of conscience. I am not promoting anything political. I am pointing a finger at the decline of the quality of life in our nation, in our leaders, in our society-at-large. If we do not speak up, we will ultimately forfeit the right to speak up at all. If you call the right to speak up political, it is you who are mistaken. And I would ask you, “Why are you not screaming from the rooftop?”
Secondly, as for being surprised that a “spiritual” teacher would speak out – who better? What is the role of a spiritual teacher if not to alert people that we are traveling into dangerous water. The spiritual journey is not about finding happiness and tranquility and all that blather. It is about seeking truth. What is really unfolding in front of our eyes? What is the “meaning and purpose” behind the madness happening in the world today? Why has our society slipped into such chaos, not to mention hostility? Where once America was an embracing, safe nation, we are now a hostile one with a growing reputation for explosive random acts of violence happening on a daily basis.
In truth, humanity is losing its humanity little by little; bomb-by-bomb, bullet-by-bullet, political policy-by-policy. Our conscience and powers of discernment about the parameters of evil and its handiwork grow ever more dim as the propaganda released from pundits gets louder and louder about the foreign and religious enemies hidden everywhere. Eventually people will no longer be able to tell the real from the unreal. Was someone really a terrorist or not? Who knows? A society easily reaches the “does it really matter” turning point. That’s when its ripe for the worst type of leadership to step in with political promises of the most outrageous kind – reminiscent of a lunatic yelling his promises in a beer hall in the 1930’s in Berlin. We are coming dangerously close to those beer hall speeches and lunacy promises of returning to the days of being a superior nation once again.
The spiritual journey is one of truth: See clearly. We are evolving into a global community and this evolution is fraught with enormous pain and difficulty. And it is likely to get even worse. Why? Because as wondrous as it may sound in discussions around an organic meal, very few people really want to dismantle their personal boundaries much less their nation’s in order to blend into a globally cooperative planet. We did not grow up that way. We are the generations who are in charge of imagining the idea. We are not the people who will see that idea – that global vision – come to pass. Rather, we are the ones who will live the breakdown of the days of old, the world we came from. And it was a world we loved so we will not go easily, no matter how much we idealize wholeness or oneness. This truth is one of the active ingredients underlying the chaos we are living in today.
And so we must face that we are part of the conflict that is unfolding. We are agents in this chaos. It is in us and we are in it. But we also have the choice to be a part of its resolution. We can and we must choose to not give into the negative political propaganda and nonsense that is generated to keep a society in fear – even though so much is frightening. We must utilize the resources of the soul: Prayer is everything its cracked up to be – I promise you. My antidote for the waves of rage that rush over me when I listen to the fools presenting themselves as qualified leaders is to retreat into prayer. I admit to you that I go through psychic nausea first but I have never claimed to be a guru or a fully enlightened being. I walk a humble spiritual path and I have as much disgust about liars and frauds and fools as any one.
No doubt someone will ask me, “What about faith? Don’t you have faith in how things will work out?”
Faith requires action. This is our world as well as God’s. We are in charge of this mess. People who think or believe or hope some off-planet God is going to dive down here and prevent all-hell from breaking loose is seriously mistaken. We are free to nuke ourselves, if that’s where our madness leads us. Free will includes directions to hell. That said, I have endless faith in the unseen benevolence of the Divine. Endless faith. That may strike you as a contradiction – so what. I don’t care. I live an interior place of spiritual mystery, mysticism, and the miraculous. I love this interior address.
So, look alive every one. It’s time to utilize the power of your soul, your consciousness and your conscience. And that is not a political statement. It is a call to your humanity – as well as a call to prayer:
“ Hover over me, God, and those I love. Surround me in the grace of clarity and courage. I need to rely on what my soul sees now far more than my eyes. I need to listen to my heart far more than to the distractive influences filtering into my mind. Guide me to goodness in whatever ways my life allows. Help me not to judge others when I have no idea what pain and trauma they are enduring. What I do to the least among us I am doing to every human being. If I am kind to one, I am kind to all. Even kindness takes courage on some days. Hover over me, God. Keep me away from my own darkness and always heading toward the Light. Amen.”
Love,
Caroline
