Our Actions: Coerced;
Compelled; Chosen
Copyright 2017 Don Ray
The answers are all right before
us. The structure of existence, the
nature of our being, the summary of purpose and meaning, it is all right before
us.
Look just a little deeper, just
a little deeper.
Gently peel away the worldly
façade and recognize what is really transpiring in most of our human endeavors.
Everything we do falls into a
few categories. 1) We do that which we
think facilitates our survival-security-and comfort. 2) We do that which connects us to something
or someone. 3) We do that which is
irrationally loving.
1)
We work at our
miserable jobs - defend our homes – fulfill the contract - in order to survive.
2)
We create music - plant our flower gardens - get
romantically involved – cheer for our team – join the gang - in order to connect, whether with each other
or with something greater.
3)
We go out of our way
to give someone a ride - we forgive the transgression - we overlook the offense
- we volunteer our time - in order to sacrificially love.
1)
In our efforts to
survive we express our evolutionary position in a violent world of perennial
shortages. This is our most basic level,
the level of our species’ birth, the level that for the most part enslaves
us. Our bodies and instincts and
genetic programming know well this level.
2)
In our efforts to
connect we express the universal drive toward Unity. This is our next higher level, a nascent
spiritual awareness of our eternal self and its calling and potential and
destiny. This unrecognized level underlies
much of our behavior, but this level of existence is largely masked and
disguised by the carnal world.
Our
souls cannot deny this level and, through various distorted expressions, long
for this level, though our worldly minds may not recognize or acknowledge it.
3)
In our selfless
efforts to forgive and love we express our highest level, the level to which we
can aspire, the level to which we are called, the level that does not come
automatically or naturally. This is the
level attained by Choice, the level that is purely voluntary, the level
attained by exercise of our uniquely human freewill capacity to change
ourselves and choose our direction of growth.
1)
Our carnal forms dictate
our lowest level behavior, and what passes for love is primarily rooted in our instinct
for procreation.
2)
The underlying
imperatives of the Universe, the expression of the foundational structure of
the universe, direct our longings for a higher level of bond and connection and
Unity. Romance is born, teams are
formed, tribes are defended. We love our
spouse(s) and team(s) and country, as we are supposed to in the most profound
sense.
3)
However, our highest
potential, that height to which a human soul can aspire, is a creation to which
we contribute, a creation we craft in wholeness with all Creation. This selfless and sacrificial Love is never
dictated by this physical world, usually not encouraged, and often not even
condoned. This is Love in spite of the
world, Love arising not from practiced response or genetic programming or
evolved instinct or social dictates, but Love new and pristine that we allow to
enter through us. This is Love eternal.
This is the Love that completes the meaning of “human”, and begins the
meaning of “Children of God”.
Copyright 2017 Don Ray
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