Creating the Work You Love: Manifesting in Times of Meltdown
Omega Institute June 26-28
“When the world is in the way, the sage succeeds;
when the world is not in the way, the sage survives.”
Attributed to the Chinese Daoist sage Zhuangzi (Chuang-tzu) this about sums up our situation. The media frenzy around “swine-flu” like the frenzy around the economy baldly appeals to peoples’ fear-base, smallness, and greed. As Dr. Mercola points out, three thousand people a day die from malaria. But because there is no pharmaceutical company manufacturing a malaria vaccine, there is no media attention. People are paying other people to create and sell panic and because the vast panoramic beauty of everyday life has become all but invisible to so many. This is the real tragedy and this is the real illness!
This is your life. It is precious and sacred. And you have a choice to either really learn about your body and how to work with and heal it, or to give your power away to corporate medicine. Likewise you can put your energy into creating truly sustainable work – not an ego-based dream fantasy of “me,” but an open exchange with the forces of life that allows you be where you are meant to be, or you can continue to be a wage slave.
This is not about fruitless corporate bashing or the like. You can complain about the economy, the health care system, and the rest as loud and as long as you want to, but these are ultimately all reflections of our selves, of consensus mass-consciousness. To step off the tread mill, to free your mind from limited fear-based thinking and reactive action, to be courageously who you are, and to make whatever concrete contribution you can to your community, this is what “manifestation and life-alignment” work is all about. To Create the Work You Love is to relate to the world, and to the world of work in particular, with genuine intelligence and wisdom. It is not about ego-based self-indulgence, but is rather about the realty of abundance that appears as we step out of our petty visions of separation and risk becoming who and what we are meant to be. Then in an instant, we realize that Life supports us dramatically, that Life has always supported us, and that our challenges, losses, and frustrations are the gifts that urge us to release our resentments, our habitual darkness, our blaming, and our lethargy.
Let the dead bury the dead; go out and demonstrate the reality of Spirit with everything you do. This power is real, and its alignment can be cultivated. No matter what way the world is in, you are faced with the task of living a life that you can be proud of. There is no time but now. Leap out of your insulated circle and break on through. You will be glad you did.
