Sunday, May 25, 2014

Energy, passion and the suffering of others

This morning  I watched a video someone had posted - some dance routine with singing in some not so pretty but ok New York City streets - the people in it young and full of energy, living the life.

Energy and passion - and having a good life, whatever that meant to you - yes, that is what it is all about ...and I watched this video and was caught in between a mood of YES, and celebration ...and the pain of knowing that what I saw was paid for by the lives of animals and plants and the destruction of the planet. Mostly likely those folks didn't know any better, and maybe some did. But as a culture - all the creativity is painted against the backdrop of destruction of the very basis that made it possible.

In the meantime, in some far away corner of the world, a hen is sitting on eggs hatching new life.

Is the confinement and pain of billions of creatures worth the joi de vivre of some humans?

If we are all here temporarily in the dream - then what does it matter as long as we learned what we needed to learn?

We do what we must - but I still say - tread gently...and bring to bear in this present moment all the attention and presence you can.

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