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The Invitation

By Jasjit Purewal - 2:06 PM Wednesday 10 January 2007

A whole New Year to play with! Aspirations, dreams, goals, great adventures, greater moments and all kinds of challenges await each one of us individually and collectively. Yet how many of us feel like we stand at the edge of a cliff, breathless with anticipation for the whole sky that awaits, arms outstretched ready to jump into the unknown with fervour, joy and receptivity?

Not many of us have really known that feeling. THAT feeling, which must define what some call our infinite potential. The point from where the road to our unboundedness starts! Simply put, how many of us have decided that this must be the year of pushing the frontier, stretching the limit or attempting to experience what it must feel like to embrace infinity. Even in one aspect of our lives!

The wise ones say that thought is the fulcrum of all potential. If we can think it, then we can become it. So here’s something I found which I would like to share with all of you. A Grand invite/thought and even grander watermark for who we can be alone and in togetherness. For in this blog, where we wade through the mists and scrapes of loving and living, of relating and defining the elusive world of ‘intimacy’ here’s something immutable and awesome. Ascribed to someone called Oriah Mountain Dreamer (an Indian Elder) this poem is exactly what it is titled- an Invitation. An Invite by a dreamer to love like a God and live like a man/woman, knowing the wonderous peaks, which lie on both sides of our skin line.

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
And if you dare to dream to meet your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love
for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the centre
Of your own sorrow,
If you have been opened by life’s betrayals or
Have become shriveled or closed from fear of further pain!
I want to know if you can sit with pain. Mine or your own,
Without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy,
Mine or your own;
If you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy
fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
Without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic
or to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true.
I want to know if you can disappoint another
To be true to yourself;
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
And not betray your own soul.
I want to know if you can be faithful
And therefore be trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty
even when it is not pretty every day,
and if you can source your life from God’s presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure,
yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of a lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live
Or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
After the night of grief and despair,
Weary and bruised to the bone,
And do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you are,
how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand at the centre of the fire
with me and not shrink back.

It does not interest me where or what
Or with whom you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you from inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company
You keep in the empty moments!”

By Oriah Mountain Dreamer (an Indian Elder)


Posted By Jasjit Purewal - 2:06 PM Wednesday 10 January 2007

Comments

Inspiring piece Jasjit; and perfect, to usher in 2007 with!!

INdeed.. may we all aspire to our greatest potentiality; and may we inspire as many with us; along the way....

2007 Greetings to all!

with loving kindness,
North

Posted by

  on January 13, 2007 05:20 AM

Dear Jasjit,

Reading this poem i was reminded of the Pyramid of Maslow in which he describes the needs born to human beings that have to be fulfilled before one can even think of his greates potential.

I intend to use this pyramid in my 3D environment in the form of a pyramidical labyrinth in which one falls back to a former level as soon as something happens that forces him to: i.e. electromagnetic forces, electrotown :)

For anyone who is interested, hereunder a link to Maslows theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs

Love,

Posted by

Mieke
  on January 13, 2007 08:18 PM

Mieke, as we progress in four-phased cycles at many small to big levels, we may be 'falling' at a smaller level cycle but yet we will be progresing at a bigger level. For example, we pass through four phases in a day as well and at the end we may seem to have come to the beginning (of the next day) yet we are progresing considering our four phased life, or even any part of it greater than a day but less than the whole life.

Our movement comes from within (from the level of the core of our beings (the innermost point of the kundalini supposed to be operating from within our spine and directing or throwing open or making things happen in our outer life. So it is not that something happens first and we are forced to move backwards, rather we have moved backwards (ever forward on the given cycle in fact)and so the thing under question had to happen. Though there is really very small difference: for example, you say we fall in love and hence enter youth, I say we have entered youth and hence fall in love). Morover we do not fall back to electromagnetic days but always move from physical needs to electromagntic needs to intellectual needs to spiritual needs to hibernation for a while only to begin anew from physical needs. Of course, not many yet be aware of the last to phases and so may think that we fall back to love, sex etc.

Thank you for drawing me out a bit, I have been trying to write something here for the last one day but nothing will come to my mind..

Happy LOHRI to all here!!

Posted by

  on January 13, 2007 09:16 PM

Hi Harb,

Well great i inspired you a bit :). You know i already showed you my 3D spacevehicle in the form of 3 circles that can also be seen like a cross forming four squares and an encompassing circle. When you put a player in it it looks the same as Leonardo's Homo Universalis.

Recently i made another 3D spacevehicle with two pyramids one pointing upwards and one pointing downwards and when i placed them halfway into each other, it looked like a spaceship, but seen from another angle it looked like a sixpointed star. It also represents a universal symbol that is called the Merkaba and i have seen it on a picture with a player in the middle in lotus attitude.

To me they both represent the universal game of life that can be seen from many angles, but indeed as you say hereabove from the level of the core of our beings.

It is amazing, first i have found the basic truth in all the religions and other filosophic and scientific disciplines of the world. Now i find it back in all the geometric shapes i use in my 3DWorld. Found it back in your book describing the four forces in Nature.

I guess that it can be described from any point of view, that what you focus on will always bring you to the same truth, the inner one :)

Posted by

Mieke
  on January 14, 2007 03:38 PM

Mieke, you are absolutely right. As there is only One Truth, obviously when you will be able to go to the core of anything you will find the same One Truth there. This is, in fact, how Indian Vedantic sages saw the same non-dual God everywhere.

You really 'see' it outside because you have first realised it inside you in your oneness experience. One cannot see outside beyond what one has already seen/realised inside. Recall a paragraph from my book:

"There is no denying the fact that with each new scientific theory we are actually going deeper and deeper into the heart of the matter - not only figuratively but literally as well. Or perhaps, it would be more correct to say that as we go deeper and deeper into the heart of the matter we encounter phenomena which force us to revise our already existing theories, scientific or otherwise, in almost all branches of knowledge."

Your pyramids - one pointing upwards and the other downwards immediately brought to my mind the fact that the Game of Life is as much outside as much inside (mind or virtual realm). Also what Soren Kierkgaard has said as quoted in my book: "Life is lived forwards but understood backwards." Perhaps in some way your intuitive self is depicting this complete fact of th Game of Life in the two opposite-pointing pyramids.

Star represents almost the end point of the Game where in a way the outside and inside almost coallesce, perhaps which is why you see the pyramids collectively as a star...

Love, Harb

Posted by

  on January 14, 2007 04:23 PM

Thanks Harb, and while doing "research" for my game (lol) i found the successor of Maslow's theory: Spiral Dynamics. This theory is more and more going towards everything you describe in your book. It is as you say that each new scientific theory goes deeper and deeper into the heart of the matter and i believe this one could really lead to Weaktown :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_dynamics

Posted by

Mieke
  on January 15, 2007 04:46 PM

Wow J,

Absolutely speechless with ur insiring piece.
"A whole new year to play with"...light yet V profound.

I salute the sprit of Ifsha that centers me yet gives a platform to explore around.

love,
sahaya.

Posted by

Sahaya
  on January 15, 2007 10:36 PM

Dear Sahaya

Good to see you here after so long. I know that this year holds many special treasures for you and you will find the courage to leap into your awesome potential. So I salute that in you! :)Just returned from my hideout in Rishikesh where bathing in the icy, pristine Ganga renewed a whole sense of adventure and blessing for 2007.

Much love

Posted by

Jasjit
  on January 16, 2007 12:19 PM

Hi North

Glad you found the post inspiring, :). Just checked out your blog after a long time..looking good! Your artwork is fascinating and I'm sure this year will be especially creative and fulfilling. Hope it brings wonderous healing to deep-set wounds and makes you available to the Universe to gift us your myriad talents. Wishing you health, peace and abundance in 2007.

Hi Mieke and Harb.

love

Posted by

Jasjit
  on January 16, 2007 12:30 PM

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