It feels like everywhere you turn this year with the Covid crisis, there is an obstacle. Events are cancelled, systems are collapsing, places are closed, expectations are continually dashed. We are being squeezed into tighter and tighter spaces. This discomfort has many of us simply waiting for the storm to pass and sending out anti-2020 memes before enjoying life again. But we can find expansion within the constriction. Not only is it possible, it’s the whole point.
My co-founder at Meditation Without Borders, Isabel told this story she read about this man who had his spiritual awakening when he was shackled to a wall in prison and being tortured. He realized even in that situation he had the power to choose whether to forgive his captors or not. He had to be squeezed into the tightest place possible in order to realize that there was still freedom in that space.
This all ties into the concept of Karma, but really Karma is a natural law that curbs the latitude of movement of those individuals or groups that go against nature’s flow. You can see it at work when people have an unhealthy (i.e. unnatural) lifestyle. First, they may start getting sick more often, then they can’t eat as many foods as they’d like, then they may not be able to move much at all.
Human society has been living in direct opposition of nature for some time, and the…
