Many moons ago I was sitting in my living room with my husband, for ease we will say David (got that??) okay. The house we lived in back then was an adobe mud brick church, people called it the house of healing, it felt like that living there believe me.
David and I back then seemed to attrack people who were questioning their lives, a little befuddled or confused. Young folk, funny thing was though we got frustrated with something they all kept saying, they said it, a statement, because they weren't listening, to themselves or the universe. That little phrase started something, something magical in our lives anyway, just before Davids cancer got to stage three (organs) he painted huge signs up and plastered them all over his studio walls so that neither of us would ever forget.
The phrase they kept saying, the phrase I hear a lot even here is.... get ready for it.........
I DUNNO - I DON'T KNOW... woot? (thanks PBW)
We began to really think about the words and realised in the context of a holistic life they had deep meaning, they were deeply felt words by our own psyche's, they could change the direction of our lives by the choices or lack of them, if we chose to use them in the wrong order. Which brings me to the phillisophy David and I used while he was quite literally dying back in 1997/8. These words in the right order uplifted, gave personal power, lessened the need for immediate solutions, control of things we really didn't understand. They were...
KNOW - DO - YOU
Think about it, KNOW is the mind, our minds have knowledge and wisdom untapped, we know all that we need to, we simply need to ask the right question.
DO is the body, it is the vessel we obviously DO things with, it is our body, we should take hold of it, know it... (get it)
YOU is our spirit, the YOU of YOU that makes YOU who YOU are. The spirit is a very important part of the cycle, the spirit regulates the minds overactivity, the bodies malfunctions, it reckognises the KNOW and the DO and if we listen to the YOU we can calm the other aspects, we can get to know what it is our SPIRIT is trying to scream at us, to maybe ask the right questions, listen and know our bodies and use them for what they were meant, put into them what they need, to feed the mind what it needs to allow the spirit to shine brightly every day, regardless if we are to end up somewhere completely different, at odds with our own ideals of what an outcome could, should ought to be.??
You following me here?
YOU DO KNOW
KNOW YOU DO
DO KNOW YOU
KNOW YOU DO, it doesn't stop, it keeps going, keep jumbling they still make sense.
Essentially what I am saying is that if the answers are not presenting themselves then ask a different question, ask your spirit what it knows, then ask your body how it feels, listen to your mind, not your concious, YOUR MIND.
If you think Bhuddism, then the three most powerful things we can remember to get to enlightenment is to remember these things:
Ask your self where you are right now
Ask your spirit how it feels right now
Listen to you body and know where it is right now
Its about the harmony of life, if we consistently poor indecision and lack of faith in ourselves, our vessells and our spirits then they will fail us when we need them most, when we need to make a decision...
The outcome folks was that David took ownership of his life, he owned his body, wracked with pain and malfunction, he owned his spirit a fallen angel, dark and lack lustre, he owned his mind, negative and indecisive, when he owned himself, the answers came.
Now its not a solution to anyone elses problems, ails or woes but it is something to think about, when you consider that when we get lost in our lives remembering three little words may just jump start the pin ball game again.
Anyway thats my humble little phylosophy (part thereof) take it or leave it, I'm simply writing here for CJ, to maybe allow him a little perspective with his life, maybe someone else, who friggin knows. Comments are welcome of course, and questions.
