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Minions Jas Blauw (maat 116/6 jaar)
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Julie 26, 2014 deur Louwie
Die Noodsaaklike val na Bowe saam met Richard Röhr. (Vervolg)
Ons is steeds op reis die ewigheid in. In kosmiese terme is die son skaars op, die dag lê vars en oop voor ons. Die “little lizards” in die dorpe en stede, op die plase en in plakkerskampe begin pas maar om wakker te word en stram teen die lewenspad op te beur, op soek na ´n plekkie in die son.
En ons val, sommige “na bowe” en ander trots gesig in die modder, onstuitbaar selfversekerd.
“The first-half-of-life task,” sê Richard Röhr “is no more than finding the starting gate. It is merely the warm-up act,” Maar ons glo dat dit die ware Jakob is. Ons storm narsisties voort deur die eeste helfte van ons lewens en glo dat die wêreld om ons draai, dat ons die middelpunt van gebeure is. Ek is die held/heldin, die mooi een, die slim een, die ryk een, die groot atleet of die swartskaap, of die slagoffer. En vanuit hierdie selfgesentreerde standpunt leef ons die eerste helfte van ons lewens verwoed uit. En as ons dom genoeg is, storms op dieselfde manier dwarsdeur die tweede helfte van ons lewens ook, baie tevrede en ingenome met ons selfsug en gewaande grootsheid.
“The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling or changing or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo, even when it is not working. It attaches to the past and present, and fears the future.” sê Röhr. (my onderstreep)
Dan kry jy die oumens in die ouetehuis waar hy of sy in relatiewe armoede (of rykdom)hooghartig neersien op mede oumensies. Waar geld en status (en selfde kerk) steeds die maatstaf en vereiste vir vriendskap en toegang tot die Hemel is. Waar simpatie gegee en hulp verleen word op voorwaarde dat dat dit eksklusief en met rente terug gegee sal word.
“Human life is about more than building boundaries, protecting identities, creating tribes, and teaching impulse control.” Of oor besittings of kwalifikasies of mag en status.
James Hollis skryf in sy boek “Finding meaning in the second half of life” dat, In die tweede helfte van die lewe “The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controlable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.”
Dit is redelik ver verwyderd van die belewenis en insigte van die egogedrewe ‘eerste helfte’ soort van lewe, en vir meeste van ons inderdaad skrikwekkend.” This is initially quite scary,” sê Röhr “but the issue is no longer “is he or she in my group, my country, my political party, my social class?” but “Has he or she ‘passed over’ to the Big Picture?”
Die tweede helfte van die lewe is sielgedrewe en nie ego gedrewe nie. Die val na bo gebeur deur ´n val na binne waar belewenisse, selfs erotiese ondervindings, ´n sielskomponent het. ´n Meer ongebonde spiritualiteit rig jou lewe. Röhr skryf: ” In the beginning, you tend to think that God really cares about your exact posture, the exact day of the week for public prayer, the authorship and wordings of your prayers, and other such things. Once your life has become a constant communion, you know that all the techniques, formulas, sacraments and practices were just a dress rehearsal for the real thing – life itself – which can actually become a constant intentional prayer.”
Maar nou kry ons die slim mense, ook predikante, wat met hulle briljante intellek die Geestelike dimensie van die lewe gedekonstrueer het. Hulle verstand sê vir hulle presies hoe dinge werk, wat moontlik is en wat nie. Wat hulle in werklikheid doen is nie dekonstruksie nie, maar demolisie, die totale vernietiging van strukture wat “eerste helfte van die lewe” mense broodnodig het om moreel eties op die regte pad te bly. Röhr sê: “The merely rational mind is invariably dualistic, and divides the field of almost every moment between what it can presently understand and what it then deems “wrong” or true.” (my onderstreep.) “The opposite of rational is not always irrational, but can also be transrational. Things like love, death, suffering, God, and infinity are transrational experiences. Both myth and mature religion understand this.”
“But it is very hard for people to believe this when they have no positive sense of identity, little courage yet, no strong boundaries to contain Mystery, and little inner religious experience at any depth. Thus the first journy is always about externals, formulas, superficial emotions, flags and badges, correct rituals, Bible quotes, and special clothing, all of which largely substitute for actual spirituality. Yet they are all used and needed to create the container. Yes, it is largely style and sentiment instead of real substance, but even that is probably necessary. Just don’t give your life for mere style and sentiment.”
En hier lê die knoop, en dalk die oplossing. Tweede-helfte-van-die-lewe mense oorweeg ( en beleef soms) die werklikheid van transendering van hierdie fisiese bestaan. In hierdie fase van hulle lewe, sê Röhr, “Mystics (like Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Baal Shem Tov, John of the Cross ect. ) will speak to you perhaps more than people from your own tradition.”
Ken Wilber sê: “Wisdom happely lives with mystery, doubt, and “unknowing” and in such living, ironically resolves that very mystery to some degree. … it takes a lot of learning to finally “learn ignorance”. And to live it, kan mens byvoeg, want “To move beyond family-of-origin stuff. Local church stuff, cultural stuff, flag-and-country stuff is a path few of us follow positively and with integrity.” sê Röhr. Om uiteindelik met integriteit te lewe, inklusief te dink, om deernis te hê met,en respek te betoon aan jou medemens al is hy ´n ander kleur as jy, al behoort hy aan ´n ander kerk as jy, of selfs aan ´n ander geloof. Al is hy van ´n ander kultuur, praat hy ´n ander taal moet hy steeds menswaardig behandel word.
Moet nie verwag dat die eerste-helfte-van-lewe mense jou sal ondersteun in jou val na bo nie. Vir hulle lyk dit na ´n val na benede, na die Hel. Hulle sal jou probeer “optrek” na hulle vlak, en as jy nie wil luister nie sal hulle jou bespot en belaglik maak.
“At this age , I no langer have to prove that I or my group is the best, that my ethnisity is superior, that my religion is the only one God loves, or that my role and place in society deserve superior treatment.” As jy tot hier toe “geval” het, het jy wasdom bereik, en dan sê Röhr; “Finally, at last, one has lived long enough to see that “everything belongs,” even the sad, absurd and futile parts.”
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