Aftershock

People should pay close attention to what has happened recently in Haiti, New Zealand and now, Japan. These catastrophes serve as a dress rehearsal for what we may expect when the entire globe begins to undergo such troubles. Pay close attention. Put yourself in your brother's shoes. Remember the following:

At some point in the near future, in your lifetime, everything you hold valuable, everything you feel is absolutely necessary for you to have in order to feel "human" will be gone. You will very likely be left with nothing but the clothes on your back and what's in your heart. Will you be ready? Will you be able to handle it?

No cellphone. No Internet. No television. No car. No home. No job. No social standing. No food. No water. No nothing.

People will either have to take from other people, or learn to rely on and cooperate with other people. Which will it be?

The time is now to release the attraction to all those things that we believe are so important to our physical existence. All the "things" in our lives are simply "props". Objects provided for our use while we stumble through life trying to remember why we are here.

We are here to learn how to get out of here.

If we cling to the trinkets and baubles of material life, we will fail in our objective. If we desire physicality more than spirituality, then we will continue to spin on The Wheel of Death and Rebirth, suffering, suffering, suffering...with maybe one or two small moments of happiness sprinkled in. If that's what we want, then that is what we shall have. When this happens, we can't blame God, we can't blame "the devil", we can only blame ourselves.

We must work diligently to distance ourselves from the "things" that have held our attention for so long. We will either softly release them now or wait until they are violently wrenched away from us via the coming catastrophes. Those who can live without their "things", those who realize that the true Treasures are the loving, unselfish acts of service we perform for one another, will be better equipped to navigate what is on the horizon. Let it go. Let it all go. This is not to say one should impulsively sell one's house or car, etc., if those things are currently necessary. This is to say that one should release their attachment to those things and look within for what is Real.

Today, Japan. Tomorrow, the World.

Prepare ye.

~ g