There was once a giraffe who was spotted by a lion. He dared not move, lest the lion begin his charge to kill him. Now the lion stopped in his tracks as he did not want to spook the giraffe into escaping. Along comes a hyena who wanted to eat the giraffe for dinner, yet having seen the lion he too froze, so as not be harmed by the lion. So imagine the scene. A lion, a giraffe, and a hyena all looking at each other and not moving. No one takes the first step. Stalemate.
Everyone afraid of the other making a move.
I contemplated this. How often do we freeze in our actions by juxtaposition of thought, doubt and fears? Each takes a poise and keeps us locked into our own orbit of no motion. That relationship we wanted to pursue, the enterprise that we wanted to create, the financial trajectory that was too risky. Locked in, we do not create any action or step forward.
Yet motion can only be done when we break this grid lock. All thought, emotion, or idea is but a passing cloud in the sky, yet when we do not choose to dwell on the cloud and watch it pass through , the same happens for our mindsets. Observing that it is not us, but a fragment of the mind that creates this illusion.
The lion, the giraffe, the hyena all play a pivotal role in the circle of life. One must be predator and one must be prey. It is a choice once the attack is in progress who actually will perish or who will escape. Victim and victor. It’s an illusion. However the action of the chase or escape must begin to see what happens. The outcome is not set. The lion might miss the giraffe and chase the hyena, the giraffe may be prey to the lion or the hyena or escape. The hyena might be prey to the lion or predator to the giraffe or escape. The outcome is not set in stone.
The thought, the idea, the emotion all hang in a precarious balance, yet none really even exist but need motion to come into manifestation. It is in witnessing all as the cloud passing overhead with centered calm that things begin to shift. You are not the cloud, but the witness. You are not the storm but the sky that holds it. When we succumb to the fear, the doubt, the judgment, that is when we identity as the storm or the cloud. Yet we are not any of it. We are neither the lion, nor the hyena nor the giraffe. We are experiences in motion.
This is how the universe understands itself through love. The universe is the lion, the giraffe, the hyena, you and me. This is how love experiences itself.
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I love you
