Dear friends and interested readers:
I’m off to Sweden for a while, getting into the real business of Zen:- Work. Events have conspired to give me this great opportunity to support a spiritually orientated family, living with them and working at whatever needs doing - gardening, childcare, and anything else. It’ll be a real privilege for me to get involved in this way, for a long time I’ve been so strong in what I don’t want that I’ve not really got out there in the world and tried things, so this’ll be the perfect opportunity. A new country, new people, new responsibilities, it’ll help bring me some much needed discipline. And, of course, exposure to what it means to live in a heart-orientated way on a day-to-day basis.
I’m not sure what sort of internet access I’ll have while I’m out there, so I’ve decided I’ll bring the site to a close for the moment, leaving it online for people to read at their leisure, but with no ability to comment as I won’t be able to monitor all the spam that goes on otherwise. I’ll give you the opportunity to say your piece until I leave though, which’ll be next week sometime, probably the 18th or 19th June.
While I’m out there I’ll be visiting the Angsbacka festival, which’ll be a real treat. I’m scheduled to be out there until at least the end of July, then we’ll see what happens from there.
The man who gave me this wonderful offer, Paul Terrell, has been developing a really interesting therapy called Inversion Therapy, which I know first hand is tremendously peace-restoring, so check that out.
It’s amazing really, how life can change in a moment. There I was at the Mind Body Spirit Festival, thinking about where I might go from there, and then bam! An offer from out of the blue. If we trust that life brings us what we need, we can be that much more open to any opportunities that come our way. It is a paradox of human existence that we can experience both faith and fear about the same thing, depending on the state of consciousness we are in at the time. The real key to spiritual living is to allow both of these states to exist, to expand ourselves and resist or grasp neither, giving ourselves the space to have the power of choice regardless of what emotions might be passing through us. The offer terrified me, yet also I knew how good it would be for me, and recognized the unlikeliness of such a thing happening - when we begin to trust in the universe, we can trust that we will be ok, and so we are (as long as you can be flexible in your ideas about what is ok).
So, for all of your discussion points and reading and development of my ideas, I thank you. May you each find peace along your path, and come to realize that life is uncertain, so let’s not take ourselves so seriously or be so fixed in our ideas about ourselves and our world.
Remember: Freedom is found in flexibility - of attitude, of thought, and of body.
May you feel the love within you.
Love,
Lewis
