I was at a dinner last night with the Lovely Carla and one of our spiritual mentors...someone who has been instrumental in opening up the meditative landscape to us...it was a delightful night, at a little Pan-Asian restuarant on Broadway, near Belmont. The city was alive with sound and light, people and action. We live in an incredible place at an incredible time...
We talked of the madness of the world, the beauty and potential too...my favorite line of thought from the night: we live on multiple levels always, for instance: we are the dreamer in bed, we are the actor in the dream, we are watching ourselves in the dream acting. This is very much a line of thinking I've been obsessesed with over the years. This dream logic can be applied to our waking state, we are alive, we are an actor in the "real world," we are watching ourselves as we act...we are divided...
Within these divisions we struggle to live a life of integrity, wholeness, health, growth...creativity...at the same time, we are seeking a clear-eyed view of the reality around us, and much of what we see is darkness, death, pain and suffering... how best to live in this strange world of good and evil?