Moving To The Front Of The Bus

When you know ultimately it’s all ok and the big picture depicts only love does that mean you live and let live and keep yourself to yourself and crack on with enjoying this heartbreakingly beautiful life that we are?

Some say yes and you hear the phrase “go live”. Well what if part of living is also speaking and acting seemingly in opposition to the status quo?

I was reminded of the action Rosa Parks took by simply sitting at the front of a bus. She knew there shouldn’t be any difference where she sat. Tired of the game of social injustice she sat down where she wanted to sit. Many more people also knew people of colour don’t need to be kept separate from the white folk. Many people knew we are all the same, not just from a human perspective but also simply because we’re all life living itself. There is zero separation at all between anyone and any seeming thing.

Knowing it vs. speaking it and taking action on what you know can look different.

Seeing people behaving in ways that clearly indicate they don’t know what and who we really are, YES is innocent, but is it ok to ignore the misunderstanding and not share what you know?

Knowing the harmony that we are is obscured wouldn’t it make sense and be kind to move from the back of the bus and be visible? Wouldn’t challenging the status quo be the compassionate and loving approach?

It wouldn’t be done with any need for validation, no need for agreement, zero expectation of thanks, and without agenda of receiving recognition. Simply showing up and expressing the love and life we are because how can you not? Surely go live includes these actions as well as tending to your own garden?

When the intention behind action springs from pure openness let grace soothe the way.

In writing this post there’s a dance between self-identification and the need to be safe, flowing into a gentle fire of knowing to step into the ring and let off all the fireworks. Freedom is flowing with all the actions that pour from pure openness.

Such openness might well be met with indifference, anger, or defensiveness and any response is ok. Reactions and responses come from what is seen to be true in the moment and whether there’s a threat to who they believe themselves, others, and the world to be.

Pointing to the nature of experience and being resolute about it will undoubtedly jar with people and will also break people open too. Notice the conditioned thoughts of shooting the messenger, turning them into a character to be mocked or vilified. How many throughout the ages have been persecuted for daring to step in the ring and be visible in the name of love? If love moves you to tend to your garden that's wonderful but don't vilify those that speak about what life really is.

The perspective seen through the lens of a finite mind changes when it does. No separation is known when it’s known, the falling away of self identification occurs when it occurs. No one is in control of that and no one can make it happen. There is no person to do anything and yet actions happen all day every day. There is a sense of playing the game of life and when the personal identification is removed that sense of play is magnified as the realisation of infinite possibilities and anything is possible become apparent.

So how do we play the game of life?

It’s fun to play games with people who deep down know it’s a game. Yes they will play all out but they don’t take wining or losing seriously. In fact they like to experience highs and lows and everything in between and are willing to play over and over again.

Have you ever played a game with someone who isn’t treating it like a game? Where it’s become life or death, and way more serious than is necessary? Do you notice how the fun gets obscured and it no longer feels enjoyable? Instead it feels off and you want to pack up the game and go home.

Most people (characters) don’t know that life is a game. They don’t know there’s ultimately nothing to win and nothing to lose. They take life so personally that their behaviour can be far from harmonious. They also berate themselves for not achieving or not having this and that. They compare themselves to others thinking life will be better when…

Wouldn’t you want to snap them out of the madness of taking this game so darn serious? Wouldn’t you want them to see what’s real? Knowing life to be a game doesn’t spoil the experience, it enhances it beyond measure. Ultimately these are only ever reminders for ourselves ~ love speaking to love. You are me cleverly disguised as you. I love you and want you to remember what’s possible. All of this is a love story in which each character is played by life, and that’s why it’s safe to move and be visible.

Standing on the sidelines watching people innocently misunderstand the game is not what I feel drawn to do. I don’t have to make someone wrong to simply share there’s another way to play. How this pointing is interpreted is not up to anyone. I just know I can’t sit at the back of that fucking bus anymore...