The Wheels Go Round and Round

Energy is the foundation of the physical. In a perfect scenario, a baby is created through a life-affirming act. A baby is loved into being. Love is a force, an energy. Love is the energy behind life and life-affirming behaviors, desires, and traits.

In this world of form we are born through the union of male and female whose combined DNA gives us a new body. We are cared for until we no longer need care. We are educated to become adults, providing for ourselves and family. We often go on to have families of our own and to care for them and to teach them. Our children grow into adults and care for themselves. If we are not blessed with children, we assist those that do. Our children have children. We become grandparents and have an opportunity to care and teach our children’s children. The cycle of life continues … until our bodies give out and die…and the cycle of life goes on.

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What is most central to this physical world is the birthing and the raising of more human life, educating and providing for this life. Our culture makes providing financially a priority – over all else, including the nurturing of our young. Earning money, purchasing, working to earn and to purchase more; the main point of who we are earning and providing for seems to get lost in the messages to consume and consume until we have consumed the planet.

If an important goal of life in this world of forms is to create and nourish life, then sustaining that which provides for us and gives us life must be a number one goal. This means our physical environment, our earth; we must care for it and sustain it.

Therefore, a goal in this physical realm must be to collectively nourish all life. Why do we fight over property until there is no property left? Nourishing life, living sustainable – we must cooperate with one another individually, as a family, as a tribe, and as a nation, and as a world. The trend toward competitiveness, and greed is against our very nature. If there is something within that is attracted to destruction, negation, and self-serving at the expense of others and the whole earth, we must overcome it through love and service. .

Propagating the species while sustaining our physical environments by living gently upon the earth must be our north star. Propagating the species is not just bearing of children, but supporting those in our tribe who do – whether it be food, shelter, clothing, health care needs, or raising and educating the young. All else is frivolity and secondary. Until all of our tribe possesses the essentials of life, not one should possess more. One is not separate from others. All are one. If one of us is hungry and naked and suffering, we all are. There is no need for excess as it fulfills no purpose – it does not even fill the person who has excess with joy – only a life connected with the Eternal is a life of joy.

We have been blessed with all we need to survive, even with abundance. It is in how we choose to distribute the abundance that creates wealth and poverty.

Many of us have been acculturated to believe that if one does not grow up, get a good-paying corporate job, work long hours in often stressful conditions, then return home to collapse and begin all over again the following day, then he or she is not being a good citizen of the culture.

This is not life. But if one chooses another path, they are often frowned upon. After graduating from college, I did not seek after wealth and was very content to live a modest life, but then I had children. I did not want my children to be judged as those who live in poverty are judged. I also wanted my children to have all the things that I did not have growing up. I became part of the consumer culture. Even if by choosing to do so, I taught my children contrary to nature. I took them to church, but did not teach them about the force of Love. I tried to teach them to pray, but was inconsistent and did not teach them about relationship and that those to who we pray are very real. When I had my children, I became part of the culture, part of the model, and forgot who I was and what I wanted to be.

A saint is someone who can go against an ingrained value system to live one with God; even when all around are telling her that she is living wrongly and thinking wrongly and even destructively.