Checking out the podcasts from Buddhist Geeks: http://personallifemedia.com/podcasts/236-buddhist-geeks . Very cool series so far. 20-something’s exploring Buddhism, interviews with teachers, and the integration of Buddhism in their lives and Western culture.
When we first start on the road to Feri, the majority of us have to transform old blocks and complexes so that life force can flow more freely. Then we expand our capacity to hold and move life force so we can have a more solid presence in life for our selves, our Work, and our relationships. Colin at No Impact Man posted today a discussion on wasting life force - something, I think, to be given careful consideration, not only for ourselves, but for the people and resources around us.
Take wasting food, for example. None of us will ever be a perfect shopper or gardener, purchasing or planting/harvesting EXACTLY the right amount. But to mindlessly make food purchases, only to let them rot in the refrigerator or spoil on the counter - that’s not only a waste of your money. You’ve wasted precious life force on earning the money to make that purchase that is now spoiled. There’s even more waste: think of the effort of the sun, seed, soil, the tiller, the field worker, the fuel to get the food to the grocery store… all wasted. This could be applied to clothing. Gasoline. The efforts of our teachers, peers, friends and leaders.
This is not a Puritan rant. This is about respect. Respect for ourselves, for each other, and for the world around us. Respect for that life force we’ve so carefully cultivated within ourselves that I believe should now be returned to the life force that supports us from without.
I often pray before a meal, “Bless the cycle of life that feeds us all”, while seeing in my mind’s eye the soil, plant and human efforts that brought the food to my plate. Colin’s post is going to have me thinking for a deep long time about respecting the life force energy that those cycles represent as well.
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