What is the world really like?

[Guest guest]

One of my students has been feeling down about the world for a while now.

 

 

There many reasons to fear: the ice at the poles is melting which means many

things are going to change and some life is going to be lost, the wars

happening for no good reasons, natural catastrophes leading to extreme pain

and struggles, the deforestation, the sonar experiments bringing the whales

to lose track of their migration path and choose to die on the shores, etc

etc etc

 

 

During relaxation I asked my students to imagine their ideal world. I told

them when they get home to write it all up in positive terms (no sentences

like: my ideal world has no crime, instead what does it have?) And then I

told them to rewrite it using their name instead of "my ideal world is. . ."

and write "Jacky is. . ."

 

 

The following week I asked them to see what they don't like about the world

and to feel the reaction in their body and to make peace with it.

 

 

The following week the question is: What is the world really like? After

they think about it for a while. I asked them: is anyone's vision of the

world, as it really is, the same as everyone else? How come? What is the

world really like? Why can't we all agree?

 

 

So of course it is a trick question. Everyone sees the world differently. My

questions from the start show that what we see and imagine are all

projections. Even when we say there are wars in this world. Because in the

end it is not the words, the factual words that is, it is the emotions that

we ask our words to carry for us. And these emotions are our projections.

 

 

One of my students said: No! The world is actually exactly as you choose to

see it. If you see it as generous, it is generous; if you see it as stingy,

it is stingy; if you see it at war, it is at war; it is how you choose to

see it!

 

 

That's food for thoughts.

 

 

So what does my student really want to say when she says she wants to see

the world as it really is?

 

 

We really have to make a choice as to what world we want to live in. We can

choose to see the world as it appears before us but then we are in reactive

mode, we take a train and we're not the driver. So the other option is to be

creative and to choose the world we want to live in. Do we put blinders on

then? Of course not! We still need to accept the feelings we feel in the

face of what comes our way. But no reaction is necessary; the world we

choose to live in is not the world meeting our eyes. The world meeting our

eyes is just the projection of all the pain of human beings, but it is not

the way the world really is.

 

 

If you choose to make someone smile, you have already made a difference. The

world is no longer as it appeared to be, is it? But to do that you had to

imagine a different world from what you saw. You had to make a choice which

world you want to live in!

 

 

Blessings,

 

Awtar S.

 

Rochester, NY

[Guest guest]

Dear Awtar,

 

As always your Soul shares sweet wisdom that iluminates the moment and there

is no other.

 

Love and blessings

 

Sat Seva K