Heroes Not Zombies

Although this is a photo of a spider web it makes me think of invisible waves spreading around the world.

The way the sunlight has caught the strands of this web makes them radiant and when I think that word I see waves radiating. I had to be at just the right angle on to this web to see it. If I moved my position it disappeared so I remember it as an invisible web made visible by the light of the sun.

My understanding of reality is based on the concept of flows – material flows, energy flows and information flows. Only the first of these is visible. All three interact continuously and together they produce all the phenomena we experience.

I am constantly becoming, constantly emerging in the flux of these three flows. So are you. So are we.

Everything I think, everything I say and everything I do ripples out across the world meeting other waves wherever they are. All these flows interact and influence each other. What you think can affect me. What you say can affect me. What you do can affect me.

We, you and I, influence and affect others just by living. Our breathing changes the air. Our energy touches and moves others. Our ideas, thoughts and imaginings set off around the world and change it.

We can’t stop any of that. But we can choose what information, thoughts, ideas, energies and even physical materials which we want to disperse. We can choose to be toxic or nurturing. We can choose to pollute or care. We can choose to hate or to love.

If we want to choose though, we have to be aware. We have to wake up, become conscious if we want to live as heroes not zombies.,

We have to be aware of what we are being exposed to and we have to become aware of what we’re sending out, what we’re exposing others to.

The only thing we can’t do is not change the world.

So maybe we should choose how we want to change it. We can be the sources of love and kindness. We can spread care and compassion. Just by practising.