BREAKING FREE FROM THE CULTURAL MATRIX ON GOING CLASS
This past Sunday, April 10, we decided to explore a few questions, and in the process, discovered how interrelated they were. Whether you are a participant or not, take your time to ponder the questions and write a comment below to continue our dialogue.
QUESTIONS
Identity vs projected image?
What is the cultural matrix? What does it mean to break free?
Gratitude
Culture and community, micro/macro
How to be loving and not neglect issues?
How to best respond to injustice?
We began exploring these questions in a dialogic fashion. These questions seemed to lead to more questions. Who am I? Why do we project an image? Is it possible to live authentically without an image? What is community? Is community different from culture? What does it mean to Love? If we respond with reaction, will we solve our problems? Can we solve our problems with the same sort of thinking that created the problems in the first place? What does it feel like when people come together to listen and look to understand?
I wonder if our thinking is deeply impacted by our family and educational systems? I wonder if we are also taught into a belief that we are separate individuals competing with each other for survival? I wonder if this root belief that is conditioned into us is what then perpetuates the issues we see within our culture? I wonder if this belief is actually false? I wonder if I lived in love, what would change?
Here is something that I wonder and feel…. Love is the most powerful force in the Universe. Love is Wholeness. Because love is whole, love doesn’t crave, does not force, does not need anything. Love is the binding force of all that is. Love doesn’t conform, and is vulnerable. Love is not conditioned. Love flows out of the quiet stillness when the mind is quiet. Love doesn’t try and hide nor manipulate. Love isn’t about manifesting nor gaining. Love is.
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” – Black Elk
What do you think? What were some highlights for you? Have you been led into more questions - a quest into further understanding?
