Among people there are none who do not eat and drink, but there are few who really appreciate the taste.
Confucius the Chinese social philosopher wrote that over 2500 years ago. The message that I am too busy to really enjoy anything is a fact. I’m always doing something and am not aware of the total impact of my actions. I absorb a little from each daily experience, but I am so hell bent on going to the next experience the full flavor of living is lost my in the unconscious act of completion not in the actual performance. I am constantly motivate by my belief that more is better and less is failure, so I hurry to complete each task instead of savoring the taste of the meal of knowledge that is placed before me.
Ancient China had the same issues as I experience. In fact one thing about history is that it is a mirror of my future and it is placed on the plate of my now. I have the knowledge to understand Confucius now, if I believe and take the knife and fork of responsibility and begin to taste and savor the situations I find my self immersed in. It is my duty to examine each experience for the lessons they hold within them. Everything that is put on my plate of awareness is there to learn from and to digest so I can expand my mind. There are nutrients in every disaster, in every storm and in every death. It is my responsibility to appreciate them for what they are, because I am the one who created them.
That truth is not easy to swallow when I bounce from one end of the table of emotions to the other expecting someone to tap my in the right direction and solve the mystery of my clogged taste buds. I become a ball of fear that hits a wall of anger and expects some other ball to feel the pain. I feel my course is covered in destiny and the work of an emotional creator who can pick me up and place me on another table if he chooses. Constantly at the mercy of my belief system I never taste the food of physical living and blame my situation on predestination. I was meant to be a pawn, not a king on the chess board of physical life.
All of that changes when I change my beliefs. Jane Roberts explains how I can do that:
Imagination plays an important part in your subjective life, as it gives mobility to your beliefs. It is one of the motivating agencies that helps transform your beliefs into physical experiences. It is vital therefore that you understand the interrelationship between ideas and imagination. In order to dislodge unsuitable beliefs and establish new ones, you must learn to use your imagination to move concepts in and out of your mind. The proper use of imagination can then propel ideas in the direction you desire.
Social change is and will be an experience that I must taste with new beliefs. Using my imagination I can change my system of economics and political justice from a leaking ship to an efficient cruiser. As I change the collective consciousness changes and the world I experience is a tasteful one.
Cato the Elder the Roman Statesman said it this way:
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
It’s time to be a wise man. It’s time to use my imagination and change my beliefs. It’s time to shun the mistakes of fools and taste and savor the lessons within their actions. I am the wise man and the fool. I live my physical life through experiences. By tasting the flavor of greed and control I learn the lesson they hold within them. I then imagine a different experience where expansion comes in unity of expression and the awareness of diversity in truth. No longer a fool I become a wise man that experiences each moment and accepts the taste and flavor of them as my own creation.
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