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Youth Elders and Community
Personal notes inspired by Monday’s Community Meeting, at the Cancer full moon (home, heart and community). There are perhaps four stages a person can go through. Mixing multiple metaphors and sources we can have:
- Athlete, physical body, me
- Warrior and competitor, or homemaker, us
- Co-operator, doing, group soul, purpose, all of us
- Elder, being, non-dual, enlightened, all one.
Youth may need different types of support as they develop through No 1. And at No 2 some may leave and may or may not come back. That is OK.
The Foundation Community is partly about supporting the transition from No 2 to No 3, largely through doing (work is love in action), 24 by 7. We are good at it, and we the collective need No 3 to survive and get things done. That is OK.
And, each stage comes with its shadow. At No 3 what sometimes manifests is lack consciousness: the belief that there is never enough time, money, staff… Actually, this is a heresy, as is the unspoken belief in separation. And as No 4 comes to the fore in the life of a person there is nothing to do, no one to do it and nothing to be afraid of. That is OK too.
Or so I have heard.
And which Buddhist Monastery had a policy of never commenting on external matters? Very profound.
So maybe the calling I or we or some of us face is the transformation from No 3 to No 4?
Note that these stages represent growth through time, and cannot be tied to specific ages such as an arbitrary retirement age.
The esoteric keynote for Cancer is “I build a lighted house and therein dwell”
John Wragg, Johnwr@johnwr.co.uk
