Love and Authority

  

 

LOVE AND AUTHORITY 

 

 

 

Ecovillages,  Communities, Group activities, Consensus decisions making...

Beautiful ideas indeed. Everyone looks after everyone, Everyone’s needs being respected and fullfilled!

 

Yet after some experiences I think:

Consensus leads to the free flow of each individual’s mind.

This individual mind being mostly ego-centered, where does this lead ?

 

If people have been working on themselves, if they happened to learn about the mind’s terrible tricks and functionning, then yes it may work for some time.

Just for some time.

 

Time to realise that there is a “Higher Authority” which we cannot escape.

 

Authority.

Yes.

This word is frightening.

This word makes us run away.

This word resonnate like Hierarchy, War, Army, Chief, School and so on

 

“we dont need your education” ...  sung the Pink Floyd ... “ leave the kids alone”

 

This word drove us maybe to become rebel or junk or thief or marginal...

This word drove us maybe to break the laws, to become outlaw ...

 

“we dont need your education” ... shouted the Pink Floyd...” leave the kids alone”

 

“Brake the laws ! Down with tyrants ! “

“No Religion ! no Slaveholder “! shouted the anarchists.

 

 

Authority

Authority

 

So many images, so many emotions, such heavy individual stories are bound to this simple word.

Authority. Blood, war, injustice... Authority...

Down with Authority.

We are moulded in this history.

Even our education is moulded in this history.

 

Yet..

 

 

 

 

 

Yet let us take a closer look at this 8 letters word.

Let us leave our personal story aside

Let us leave our personal emotions aside

 

And let us just imagine that however rebel outlaw marginal we may have been – or we still are..

 

Let us just imagine that ... whatever we do whatever we think there might be a “Higher Authority”, and this “Higher Authority “ could be above ALL, could govern everything, Cosmos, the Universe..

 

Let us just imagine that this “Higher Authority” could be just .. LOVE.

 

    

        Then everything could change.

 

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Mevlana said:

“It is not out of pure gravity that planets turn around the Sun, but out of LOVE for the star from whom they receive Light”

 

One day in a deep love sorrow I cried and desperately called:

“What is LOVE??”

And I received:

“Love is that what binds beings together”

 

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Now let us watch the Great Nature, Mother Nature, and Nature’s Order.

Like smart beginners in permaculture, having emptied ourselves let us just OBSERVE Nature.

 

Let us observe the perfect danse of the stars, planets and Sun in the Cosmos, the moon in our sky... rain, rivers, oceans on our beautiful planet...

 

Let us observe once this incomparable order, this inimitable order, Nature’s order.
Seasonal rythmes, spring awakening, winter hibernation...

These rythmes are just like laws that each and every element in Nature would naturally follow...

Because in the Nature a giraffe would not try to become a snail!

Neither would a frog try to become a ox !

No way !

 

In Nature every element, every parcel of Creation comes to birth, grows, lives and dies following Nature’s order, Nature’s laws, Nature’s Authority.

 

And even if this order looks sometimes destroying, no one in Great Nature tries to oppose to Nature’s order.

 

No one ? except ... human, Human being who believes he is stronger than Nature.

Human being believes he is stronger than Nature’s forces, than Nature’s order

Human being believes he is stronger than the Nature’s forces of law and order

 

Yes the Nature’s forces of law and order.

Maybe again these words could create some tsunami inside you...

Maybe again these words could be like taboo for some personnal reasons..

 

Yet here again let us watch just the words :

 “ Nature’s -  forces -  of - laws - and - order”

Let us blow away our personnal stories our personnal emotions and mind flow.

“Nature’s – forces – of – law- and – order “

 

Of course Nature’s laws generate order

And this order generates forces.

And these forces create Nature’s cohesion.

 

In Yoga these forces are called “Dharma”

 

As long as we oppose to Dharma we are in “Adharma”, against Nature and thus leading towards chaos.. just like we do in the present times.

 

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Now let us stop for a while.

And Breathe.

Let us observe.

And Breathe.

In and out

And in and out..

Let us Breathe

And listen to this breathe inside us, listen to this breath that makes us alive, that makes our soul a living body...

Let us listen to our heart beat, life beat, Universe’s beat...

 

Let us feel LIFE inside us, the Life’s force inside us, let us feel this incredible life’s cohesion inside us, let us feel just grateful and humble towards such magnificence, towards such a huge fantastic mystery, the Life’s mystery, the Great Nature’s mystery...Nature LOVES us.

 

Yes. With universal and unconditionnal Love.

This Universal Love that makes the Soul grow.

This Love for which sometimes Life brings us sufferings, just like this Dervish tortures the sleeping man under the apple tree ( read HERE this beautiful tale by Mevlana)

 

Universal Love is not a conditionnal love bound with expectations like

 “ I love you if you love me” No !

Universal Love is UNCONDITIONNAL. It is HERE. That’s it.

It doest not change with changing emotions or weather‘s mood.

 It is here, unchangeable, immovable.

And it is HERE in US , IN ALL OF US.

 

And we have to find it. In us.

We have to understand that Nature’s guidance, Life’s guidance is only LOVE, eventhough sometimes the experience is painful.

We must know that each and every experience that Nature gives us is here for our GOOD and for our soul’s growth.

We must be absolutely convinced that Nature only acts out of LOVE.

Because Nature IS Love.

 

Then we can understand the power of the Surrender

Surrender to Mother Nature, to Her power, Her force, Her authority, because She is hugely far more evolved than we will ever be, because She knows all the secrets that we will never know.

 

Then we can feel how soft, how fantastic it becomes to just let GO, to just abandon our life to Great Nature’s Authority, to Mother Nature who is only Forgiveness, Compassion, Tolerance, Infinite tenderness, who is only LOVE.

 

If we manage to feel this, then the concept of Authority just melts and merges in the infinite Ocean of LOVE.

 

 

 

 

Om Tat Sat.