Meeting

Today between 4 and 5 p.m. I was at a point in my life where all paths came together in one moment. Vertical. Words weren't really necessary in that one hour. Sometimes you don't have to say anything anymore and there is a kind of immediate understanding. Equals. And then they part ways again. You have no choice and yet you have a choice. It's the effort that kills you. Enlightenment is giving up everything. Enlightenment is everything chained to freedom. Enlightenment is allowing everything as it is. Enlightenment is just letting everything happen as it happens.

I want to thank that person here on this blog of my thoughts. Grateful that he came into my life and showed me a different path. You could call it The Red Road, although I have been walking it since I was born. Strange how you always live NOW. Yesterday and tomorrow are only concepts you can think about NOW. It is your thoughts that make the time. It is your thoughts that create the space. Your thoughts create a world. And all the thoughts of all the people create the world. And then again, it is impossible to know the world. It's too complex to see. Everyone only gets to see small fragments of the world. And doors that didn't open before now suddenly open.

Like today between 4 and 5 p.m. Then a door opened. I sometimes wonder why I wasn't there 20 years ago. Life. Things just happen and yet there is something more. Prayer. Love. TheSpirit. Wakan Tanka. Even if you have no choice, you still have a choice. Even though everything is certain, nothing is certain. Even though there is nothing, there is still something. The world is 1000 times more complicated and complex than we can even imagine.

I am the breath of all my ancestors, through thousands and thousands of years, thousands and thousands of generations, layer upon layer upon layer upon layer and I honor them by only following paths with a heart. I honor them by being the best possible version of myself that I can be. I honor them by recognizing them in the paths they have taken before me. I honor them by recognizing them in all the sorrow and all the joy they have known. They all live on in me.

My parents, two.
My grandparents, four.
My great-grandparents, eight.
My great-great-grandparents, sixteen.
My great-grandparents, thirty-two.
My great-grandparents, sixty-four.
My great-great-grandparents, 128
My great-great-grandparents, 256
My ancestors, 512
My ancestral grandparents, 1024
My ancestral great-grandparents, 2048
My ancestral great-great-grandparents, 4096
My great-grandparents, 8192
My great-grandparents, 16384
My ancestral great-great-grandparents, 32,768
My ancestral great-great-grandparents, 65,536
My noble parents, 131,072
My noble grandparents, 262,144
My great-great-grandparents, 524,288
My great-great-great-grandparents, 1,048,576
My noble great-grandparents, 2,097,152
My great great grandparents, 4,194,304
My great-great-grandparents, 8,388,608
My great-great-great-grandparents, 16,777,216
My noble ancestors, 33,554,432
My noble ancestors, 67,108,864
My noble great-grandparents, 134,217,728
My noble great-great-grandparents, 268,435,556
My noble ancestors, 536,871,112
My noble great-grandparents, 1,073,742,224
My noble great-grandparents, 2,147,483,648
My noble great-great-grandparents, 4,294,967,296
My ancestors, 8,589,934,592
My great-grandparents, 17,179,869,184
My great-great-grandparents, 34,359,737,368**
My great-great-grandparents, 68,719,476,736

** = this is approximately the number of ancestors at the time of Charlemagne, when the world population was estimated at about 200 million

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-more-closely-related-than-we-commonly-think/

Para mí solo recorrer los caminos que tenen corazón, cualquier camino que tenga corazón. If you go back to school, you will be able to use it as soon as possible. Y por ahí yo recorro mirando, mirando, sin aliento.