The sunrise is almost done. Everything seems very still. With the spectacular colourful show, slowly evolving from pinks with candy floss clouds above, all puffy and beautiful, to sharp oranges closer to the horizon.
Over the water, the glory is the moment, with a platinum light rippling across the ocean directly to me. These sunrays traveling 150 million kilometers, in about eight minutes at the speed of light, to get to me, to my eyes, into my brain, to be felt by my heart. The sun is low to the horizon, the rays have traveled this far for me, and at this time of the day, I’m not going to stop them getting into my eyes, my brain, and my heart.
The sun is our light. The sun creates life on this planet. The sun is the heart of our solar system.
The sun maybe spinning around from the centre of the galaxy at about 250 kilometers a second. But it holds our solar system in a slow nurturing intimate dance that can be seen in a slow sunrise. It maintains this loosely perfect chaotic relationship with everything orbiting around it, certainly allows us to sigh and breathe.
Most of the energy sent to this planet is still here. Physically we see the immediate results through the trees, and they result in providing oxygen and food for the insects and animals.
And then that life is destroyed and what remains can be burnt to reflect and imitate its original source, through the element of fire. Our planet, our only planet, holds most of the energy that has been admitted onto it.
The different spheres, only a couple of hundred kilometers in the sky, protect us and they don’t let too much escape. Only stupid billionaires trying to explore (at best) are what is leaving. It is ironic, smart men doing stupid things, looking at what is out there, when they have no real idea of what is in here. Here in the body, the mind and the planet.
The great explorers of history have never physically left this planet. Although from all reports interstellar travel is available and that is done by connecting to the heart, connecting to the mind, the breath and body. The deep mind, the still breath through the bridge of the heart centre.
Beyond the chaos, there is stillness in the heart centre.
