Today is mothers day. I would like everyone here to take a step outside and look up to thank our true mother in the sky for giving us LIFE!
thanks prone. I clicked onto this thread ready to bash mothers' day like I do all holidays since they seem to be desperate symptoms of an insecure and repressed society. but your message is surprising and makes me think...
oh it's nothing too original, i'm sure you've heard it before...for a people to put so much stock in official holidays speaks to their underlying discontent. I maintain that no one should get excited about a national holiday if they live well otherwise. my wife has no need for me to do anything special for valentine's or mothers' day because life is special enough on a daily basis. every day can be a holiday. it's great to get together with friends and family during holidays, but it's like we're being instructed to get together by the societal nonentity we all subconsciously submit our allegiance to, as a result of our own uncertainty about our personal existence. when we get together out of obligation, or because it's what everyone else is doing, it can be fulfilling but most of the time there is a great deal of emptiness felt. most of the time it just seems like a temporary distraction from the bleakness of daily life. rather than living the fullness of each day, breathing in and out the beauty and ecstasy of the state of human consciousness, ppl seem to always be looking forward to something else, something removed from their native sphere of awareness and action, something they are yet to attain. whether they are waiting for something to drop in their lap or actively seeking something currently out of reach, they often don't see the heavenly state within and without, that requires nothing more than dismissing ego-identities and letting it in. some might say "well my kids really like christmas, and I just do it for them," but that doesn't do it for me. yes, it would be hard on a young one to see his peers celebrate christmas while he doesn't , but that's only because we've constructed it that way. kids have amazing zeal and excitement about virtually anything, and yet we have arbitrarily put parameters around them, defining for them what to be enthused about, substantially cheating the kids out of the natural ecstasy one feels from merely coexisting with the natural world. it's one reason I feel I have a lot to learn from my kids, rather than the reverse. we assume that the established modern culture that we inherit is what we need to integrate into our kids, perpetuating a dismal pattern of thinking that our ancestors knew something that we don't, but kids come straight from the Source. they are the ones to instuct us....as the scripture goes "the first shall be last and the last shall be first."
