Sunday from the Heart(h)
SEED the Change.
In the One Living System book, I write a piece about change.
Not change as a slogan.
Not change as something we ask of others.
Not change as something we wait for the world to deliver.
But change as something we become responsible for through the way we live, participate, return, and reveal ourselves within Life.
I write:
The inspiring alternative we each seek to live as, is amongst the Living System of life herself. It is a return to the womb of our beginnings, to be birthed into that which we are ‘one with’ again. Where we are going is to a beginning, a point in time where we mark our day of turning and we each recognise the misgivings till now, and the potential to come. This moment simply says, I will do whatever it takes through my own action and being, to be the change I want for this world. This action is within our own becoming, returning and revealing and it is essential. For if we all begin right now to reclaim our place within the Living System of life, we change all futures to come.
The deep unravelling of our own self is paramount to our beginnings. Our willingness to traverse this time and time again is essential in order to cross the bridge that allows us to unfold and begin anew. To harness the ritualised way of being amongst the Living System, that comes together to remember the sacred knowledge of life, to actualise it (activate/live as) in order to live an inspiring alternative for our self and for all of life is our path. This actualisation means a radical switch from urgency to agency.
Whilst we all understand the urgent nature of our action; we are called daily to act now, yet we cannot simply act with haste, for it is an unfolding and must be done in awareness. In our urgency we cannot be pushed to find a solution, when the solution lays within us all and we cannot be rushed, when what we seek to find is the solution that is a part of us all.
That which we each seek to find within is our part, our expression, our gift, our message as the missing pieces to the solution together. Rather than urgency we now seek agency, our own action to intervene and allow our oneness and collectiveness to lead us.
And I explore this further:
Life now - this moment - represents the story of who we once were, what we once believed, all that we once allowed. If we have truly grown past this way of (old) living, now is the time to action a whole new inspiring alternative as one with the Living System. This means as we shed every layer of character we have portrayed, through reclaiming space to stretch into our own being, we allow ourselves to walk into the ways of the Living System of life. To understand the values, ethics, philosophies of how life creates, exists, continues, cycles, shares, communes. We have both the opportunity and the possibility of raising our consciousness into Life. To meet her there.
As we shed, we deprogram, we dissolve, we dismantle ourselves to begin again as one with life. If we can dare ourselves to do the hard work of inner awakening, allowing our self the grace to become more and more aware of our truth, in that moment of realisation we seek to be the change we can seed into this world as a part of the One Living System.
And this is the part I want to sit beside this weekend.
Because many of us know the beloved invitation attributed to Gandhi:
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
And there is deep truth in this.
But within One Living System, this invitation asks to be carried further.
Which I then make note of here:
That as we move through this awareness and cross the bridge we discover an ecocentric perspective for life, a wholeness, a oneness that is congruent with the one living system. That where we once used the term from the beloved Gandhi ‘ be the change you wish to see in this world’ we realise the importance of SEEDING and that those words now become, ‘be the change you wish to SEED into this world’. That to know self is to ‘see’ the change, to actualise self is to seed it into the world. In this we ask the question continuously - how does life do this?
How Does Life do This?
Not only see the change.
Not only to become the change.
But to seed the change.
Because to know the self is to see the change.
To actualise the self is to seed it into the world.
And this matters.
Seeing is awareness.
Seeding is participation.
Seeing can awaken us.
Seeding begins to grow something through us.
To seed change means we do not only hold an idea of a better world within ourselves.
We begin to let that world take form through our actions, our relationships, our choices, our conversations, our homes, our work, our care, our refusal, our repair, our courage, and our daily participation.
It means we ask, again and again:
How does Life do this?
How does Life restore relationship?
How does Life circulate care?
How does Life compost what has ended?
How does Life make room for what is ready to emerge?
How does Life move from urgency into agency?
How does Life grow futures?
This is not passive.
It is not sentimental.
It is not simply positive thinking.
It is the deeper work of becoming aligned enough that what moves through us can begin to take root beyond us.
Because the world does not only change through what we oppose.
It changes through what we seed.
And what we seed is not only our opinion.
It is our pattern.
Our way of being.
Our way of relating.
Our way of responding.
Our way of remembering.
Our way of returning.
Our way of participating.
Each of us carries something that belongs to the whole.
A part.
An expression.
A gift.
A message.
A missing piece.
And when we do the work of inner awakening, when we allow ourselves to shed, deprogram, dissolve, dismantle, and begin again as one with Life, we begin to discover that our own becoming was never only personal.
It was participatory.
It was relational.
It was part of the future asking to be formed.
This is why agency matters.
Urgency can make us frantic.
Agency makes us faithful.
Urgency can push us toward reaction.
Agency returns us to right action.
Urgency can make us believe the solution must be found somewhere outside ourselves.
Agency reminds us that the solution is seeded through each of us, together, as we reclaim our place within the Living System of Life.
So this Sunday from the Hearth is not asking us only to look at the world and name what must change.
It is asking us to go deeper.
To take this further.
To ask what we are actually seeding.
In our families.
In our communities.
In our work.
In our speech.
In our silence.
In our daily patterns.
In the way we meet the moment in front of us.
Because to seed the change is to allow aligned awareness to become action.
And aligned action becomes pattern.
And pattern becomes culture.
And culture becomes future.
So perhaps the question for this weekend is simple.
Not only:
What change do I wish to see?
But:
What change am I willing to seed?
What part of Life is asking to become real through me?
And what future begins if I dare to live that way now?
Because as we seed, we participate.
As we participate, we remember.
As we remember, we return.
And as we return, we begin to grow the futures that Life has been waiting to form through us.