We had been on the move since the Inclusions Acts moved us off
our ancestral homes in Scotland and Ireland. The landowners
needed the extra land to raise more sheep. The Potato famine
just speeded up the process. ( The industrial revolution may
have been a by-product or our migration to the cities.)
We ocassionally hear stories about the Illuminati. We see
pictures of them with powdered wigs, coonskin caps, and even
top hats. Most of us are too busy making car payments to
investigate the matter further.
Some of our ancestors called it the Trail of Tears. That is
what the Inclusion Acts were called over here in North
America.
The Tibetans called it the Communist Revolution, or sometimes
the Cultural Revolution. I saw some Tibetan monks at the mall
the other day. They were painting a mandala with clored sand,
one grain at a time. When I walked up, a young girl had wiped
off six inches of the painting.
The Tibetans just laughed and said "thats life!". I watched
them repair the damaged part of the mandala. The feeling I got
from watching them was a profound heavy, somber emotion. In
the setting of the commercial Mall it seemed unlikely to find
a sacred space, but they were creating one. I got a similar
feeling when I walked in fromt a 1/2 scale replica of the
Vietnam Memorial Wall. It too creates a sacred space.
The Tibetans were selling incense. On the side of the package
I bought is the silhouette of a yak in front of some
mountains. It occurrs to me that for some of the Tibetans who
still try to follow the Old Ways, all they have left of the
yak is an outline on the side of a package.
It may be that everyone on the planet can trace his or her
cultural values back to a time before their ancestors were
forced off the land. A process of adaptation begins that has
no end in sight. We are called upon to continuosly adapt to
the demands of the marketplace, and the latest clothing
styles, etc.
You can think of rush hour traffic as the crescendo of the rat
race (where the rats are on treadmills).
To be continued.
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