Sustaining Life

Sitting at David’s Café on the corner, where I like to go and sit once a day if time permits, to knock back an Americano, watch the world go by and indulge the fantasy for a moment that I’m living a leisurely Mediterranean style life, it occurs to me that each of us is walking or driving around in our own universe, comprised of our individual perception of reality and of our place in it, defined by our hopes, aspirations, fears, doubts, complexes, daring and so on, often reaching out for confirmation from others through SMS or voice contact on our mobiles, or drowning our ears in the musical ideas of others piped in from our MP3 players and how if you combine approximately 6.5 billion human universes like that and have them happening contemporaneously and co-spatially on one relatively small planet, there’s bound to be the odd collision of wills, the occasional contretemps to add friction to the action and the fact that these are the exception rather than the rule for most of the people in most places, most of the time, constitutes a miracle of epic proportions but because we are generally unaware of the obvious and are in any case bombarded by the media’s insistence on reporting and emphasising the bad news rather than the good, we tend to view the world as a dangerous, tense place, whereas in fact, it’s more peaceful than not.

It’s all in how you choose to view it – through which prism you care to look.

I say this in respect of the proposition I’ve been making this week of instigating a collective experiment, based on the ancient Taoist principles of wu wei, for effortlessly manifesting shifts in external reality simply by visualisation, in this instance encouraging as large and increasingly expanding group of us as possible, once a day for a few seconds, to each visualise, using each our own unique imagery, the entire human population of approximately 6.5 billion people, relaxing at least 9% more and in that state of deepened relaxation, being able to more easily eschew the destructive impulse and so tune into the positive life-force (love) running through us all, and thus informed, miraculously, mysteriously, collectively discover the way through whatever global conundrums lay ahead during this deepening transitional phase of declining resources, rising prices, unstable conditions on all fronts and accompanying unrest.

So for today, tonight and through the weekend ahead, if countless numbers of us, say the 20,000 or so from all around the world, who read this page each day, were to visualise that peaceful force growing stronger via the agency of an imaginary healing vapour enveloping the entire planet and touching the inner peaceful, loving Buddha within each individual with its soothing essence, the chances are good that within but a few days, remarkable things will start happening in the world – unexpected incidents of mutual cooperation, breakthroughs in technological progress in respect of future life-sustenance and surprise examples of wise negotiations on the world stage. And if we visualise the world a few years hence, having been subject to the benign effects of this healing vapour all that time, settled into a space of mutual cooperation directed at sustaining life on the planet rather than plundering it for all it’s worth as is evidently happening at the moment, in spite of all talk to the contrary, the chances are good that will happen, in spite of its implausibility.

Alternatively you can either bury your head in the sand or become glum, however, as viewed from David’s Café, the world tends to be far more an enjoyable place to hang out from moment to moment, when you train your mind to see the positive outlook instead.

In this Weekend Special BAREFOOT JOURNAL, I go in depth into a process for modestly engendering miraculous outcomes to all situations for everyone everywhere.

Meantime, may you be blessed with unshakable peace and confidence in the Tao today, tonight and right through the weekend ahead.

Love, Doc

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