These words in the paragraph below from Subhuti (from the most mindblowing retreat I have ever been on) for me are a wonderful description of why it is so difficult for me to explain the nature of my work and why it is so satisfying to be working presently in three places as I am : - Hastings (towards Spring 2015 publication of Meet the Neighbours (F*S)) - Canterbury (providing reflective companionship for Dad) - Sheffield (both recruiting mitras for a 6weeks in Summer 2015 community building appeal, amalgamating my karuna.org experience with my freelender.org experience and all the other strands of the Community Development portfolio I have idiosyncratically built....additionalinfo.blogspot.co.uk/p/hastings-trust-neighbourhood-enablers.html & * Discontinuity is a terrible affliction. The skill of integration is in finding a deep enough and engaging enough organising principle, which can absorb all the energies of your personality as they emerge. (23mins) Sangharakshita was talking about the need to discover your own myth which is a sense of something that you are pursuing which cannot ever be fully put into words, that is worked out in your life, in your quest, in your longings, in your little attempts at this and attempts at that. There is something that you are trying to work out; something that is much bigger than you and that you are not really aware of, but that you are gradually trying to find, discover, if you will only give yourself the freedom to do so. So its a bit like as if you are weaving a huge carpet. I have in mind a wonderful Persian Carpet or something like that with rich colours and a very complex and beautiful pattern, but all you can see is the present part of the pattern you are working on and you cant see how that fits into anything else, you can just see this particular flower, this particular tendril and these particular leaves. You cant see how it relates to these shapes that you formed the other day, but that you know that it does relate and you have a sense that there is an underlying unity to it all and your whole life is an attempt to body forth that inchoate process that you cannot narrow down to any particular form of words. Sangharakshita said that the greatest gift that you can have is to find a (sort of) public myth that allows your private myth to unfold itself and he saw the Triratna Movement as a public myth of that kind, that collectively we are all seeking to body forth something that is coming from within us but is also being expressed through everybody else and is capable of containing a very wide range of different processes, you could say. So this organising principle is not necessarily anything that can be spelt out, its more of a feeling, more of a deep sense of a flow. Thats very much the way in which I experience it in my life; an increasing sense that everything hangs together and that, whatever I do, that there is an underlying purpose that it relates to, even if sometimes I am aware of it in the negative, that Ive lost it or that what Im doing doesnt relate to that, but the sense of it becomes stronger and stronger the more a part of my conscious experience and identity, even.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 05:33:55 +0000
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