LET YOURSELF BE DRAWN

Good Day To You!

I hope your day was productive and wholesome yesterday.

I had a busy productive day myself.

I squeezed in a great workout with Vidya yesterday.

I mixed bilateral cable pushing with squats and lunges for four mini-circuits.

I had a good coaching call with a client yesterday. I really felt compassion for him. He’s in a lot of pain over challenges in his relationship with his wife, while being audited by the government.

He’s a writer in the health field and informs people of the dangers of vaccination and commercial foods. I suspect he’s shaken the cage a little to vigorously and attracted the attention of the vampires!

My compassion for him emerged from hearing and understanding his situation, which has its roots in painful ideas he was infected with in church as a boy!

Now that he’s successful and truly wants to “live”, he’s constantly in pain listening to the little boy in his head who’s constantly worried that he’s sinning!you know how that story goes!

I’m grateful I could help him find a healthier perspective and share some techniques for better mental-emotional self-management and relationship communications.

Between the government, organized religion, the medical, drug, food, chemical, and military/industrial cartels, there are now only very small cracks we can live in if we want to practice natural, holistic, open-minded living.

I’ve just been informed that the Australian government is trying to implement a taxation scheme for all foods with saturated fats in them; even the good saturated fats!

We are all being forced to live the lives of weeds that grow between the cracks in the pavement, or like mushrooms in the dark.

Telling the truth has become illegal and living the truth is dangerous! Quite a story ah! It wouldn’t surprise me if aliens are filming this whole fiasco and selling tickets to “EARTH – Reality TV – WILL HUMANS SURVIVE THEMSELVES?”!

How about a little poem from Rumi to brighten your day today?

This one comes from A Year With Rumi, Daily Readings, By Coleman Barks (p.121):

LET YOURSELF BE DRAWN

You miss the garden,
because you want a small fig from a random tree.
You do not meet the beautiful woman.
You are joking with an old crone.
It makes me cry how she detains you,
stinking-mouthed with a hundred talons,
putting her head over the roof edge to call down,
tasteless fig, fold over fold, empty
as a dry rotten garlic.

She has you tight by the belt,
even though there is no flower
and no milk inside her body.

Death will open your eyes
to what her face is: leather spine
of a black lizard. No more advice.

Let yourself be silently drawn
by the stronger pull of what you really love.

COMMENTARY

What is Rumi really saying here?
I can only share my own opinion!what else do I have!

Rumi’s essentially letting us know that life is about the choices we make.

Some of the things we want, are not really life affirmative, yet some things, little things, like a small fig and getting to see a beautiful woman can bring us joy.

When we aren’t being drawn to act such that we create and experience love opportunities, we are flirting with death:

(Death)! putting her head over the roof edge to call down,
tasteless fig, fold over fold, empty
as a dry rotten garlic.

If you were willing to go walk in the garden so you could enjoy a “sweet fig”, even a little fig, at least you’d be getting some exercise and eating some real food; acting out your nature, naturally.

When we like the things that are natural to like, and don’t get addicted to modern silliness, we are doing what we love. Doing what you love expresses your love, therefore, you are the vehicle of love.

Death can’t easily grab hold of someone that is living, experiencing, and expressing love, all of which are fruits of life.

Just as disease can’t live where health is, death can’t (in most circumstances) enter the life of one “in love” unless you die doing what you love, like mountaineers and race car drivers sometimes do.

Like water and oil, love (life) and death simply don’t mix.

Those who are half living are half dead — they are inviting death!they don’t taste the fig because they are too enthralled with Kellogg’s Coco Pops and the like! Too busy watching “reality TV” to live, in reality.

What medicine does Rumi offer (those that now make up the majority of our world population!)!He concludes with his offering:

Let yourself be silently drawn
by the stronger pull of what you really love.

(!and just expect that when you do, you will be called a sinner!)

Keep shining!

Love and chi,
Paul Chek