“Look Ma, No Hands”
By Michael Erlewine
[New Moon: Annular Solar Eclipse at 4:56 AM EST. This is the first of two eclipses, two weeks apart, so this means a special time when we should do our best to monitor our own mindstream. The ‘Vision of the Eclipse’ will be there, but not everyone is aware, but it is embedded in us all the same.]
Not fitting in, not fitting my piece into the jigsaw puzzle of life, finds me skipping across the water of consciousness like a flat stone. No rest for those that don’t fit. I am used to it and perhaps even prefer it, but as they say, “When you said wait, you meant a long time didn’t you?”
It just further polishes my stone and the inertia of it all keeps me free, apparently. “No room in the Inn” was the old phrase.”
My tribe must be just a little farther down the road. And if I run out of life, then next life perhaps.
After a while I can’t help but think I am causing all this and that I don’t want to fit into this or that but am passed down the line like an irritant the body of life wants to eliminate, and I have no pot to piss in, as they say.
I’m definitely a ridge rider, running the borderline or edge of what makes sense. I’m neither in nor out but on the boundary itself, balanced like a spinning gyroscope, sacrificing rest.
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Is this how we are aware of awareness itself?
Or can we relax until we are held aloft by all that is? Instead of my keeping an edge, endlessly honing it, the edge now keeps me. “Look Ma, no hands.”
Finally fitting in.
[Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]
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As Bodhicitta is so precious,
May those without it now create it,
May those who have it not destroy it,
And may it ever grow and flourish.
