Provoking fresh conversation
I wrote this initially as a Facebook blogette and felt it could also easily slip itself, slightly tweaked, into this supercharged window with healthy effect in terms of provoking some new conversation.
And it goes like this.
Under normal circumstances I'd wish you a happy Valentine's Day, however it occurs to me that I've always thought Valentine's Day merely a marketing hook, by which to foist onto us cards, flowers, perfumes, and other assorted unnecessary sundries, in short, a mug's game unless you're selling something related to phony notions of romance. Yet bizarrely, I've never till now disclosed this feeling lest people mistakenly assume I'm promoting cynicism. To the contrary - I believe the crass commercialization of any particular day the epitome of cynicism.
Less worrying about your effect on others, more focus on intention instead
However one of the more exciting developments in my own process of late, has been a notable decrease of worrying about what people assume I'm inferring, a decrease which has occurred in inverse proportion to an increase in self-actualization arising naturally from progress occurring in my own personal practice of meditation, martial arts and all the material I teach.
So I'm quite happy to simply wish you a happy day every day. But let me qualify happiness. I'm not referring to those fleeting moments of gratification that arise in the random gaps between bouts of existential pain, but to that state of innate glee you feel whenever you stop stressing yourself about how well or otherwise you believe yourself to be doing or not as the case may be: that glee about simply being alive, arising on relaxing and retrieving your natural state.
The illusion of measuring linear time
I'm not even going to wish you a happy Chinese New Year. This, because though I practice and teach ancient Chinese Taoist methods and wisdom, as you know, I'm not Chinese myself and have no great feeling for the Chinese calendar or any other calendar for that matter. In fact I feel and believe that subscribing to such arbitrary measurements of the unmeasurable is symptomatic of a desperate collective bid to hang on at all costs to an outmoded, outworn paradigm, comprising a complex of a myths that has seen better days and could now be laid to rest with impunity.
I'd be more inclined to wish you a happy New Year starting every day.
Observing the world, albeit necessarily subjectively, it seems that on the one hand we're collectively slowly coming to our senses, yet on the other, collectively rapidly losing all sense of sense altogether. This has always been so on account of the inevitable cycling of yin yang, the primordial contractive and expansive forces underpinning and driving existence, yet feels progressively more pronounced as we go along now.
Furthering evolution
And my hunch is that the most effective way forward, assuming you wish to lend your support to the furthering of human evolution, is to progressively eschew the outworn myths of a dying paradigm, along with all this kids' stuff of getting our psyches yanked by Valentines and all the various new years from all the different cultures and instead open our hearts and allow the subtle tendrils of love to reach out from there and connect us to everyone else at the soul level, regardless of the name of the day.
And the more we do so, the more connected we all feel intrinsically, the less we'll cling to meaningless symbols, which we only cling to for the lack of internal connection to what really counts: the heart of existence.
I say all this primarily to provoke conversation. Should I have succeeded in your respect I respectfully invite you to post comments
With love and wishes for a happy everything, Supercharged
Happiness: that state of innate glee you feel whenever you stop stressing yourself about how well or otherwise you believe yourself to be doing or not as the case may be: that glee about simply being alive, arising on relaxing and retrieving your natural state.
