Ever Changing Creation

These pictures were taken within a 12 hour span (March 8 and 9). The first one was captured about 5 minutes before sunset, the second about 5 minutes after, and the last ones a couple of hours before sunrise.

Just as our perspective of the moon, (in relation to its shape, degree of brightness and its position in the celestial spheres), is never the same, I too am an ongoing shifting process of I-ness.

There is no fixed form, perspective, position, and expression, here. This transformative process is very subtle, gradual and almost imperceptible. But it's always there.

Amidst this ongoing flow of give and take, there is an aspect of self that goes on seeking to establish a sense of orientation (where and who am I?) and direction (what is 'my purpose'? and how far am I from it?).

This aspect of self is set by default to rely on external feedback to orient itself and to measure its progress.

This aspect of self sets its default course based on a static vision of an external ideal, early on in life, usually based on the religio-socio-politico- economic conditions in which one was brought up.

Based on this default setting in relation to the question, 'how does the external world perceive me?’ this aspect of self goes on adjusting its behavior/approach, as it goes.

While in the course of a lifetime, the physical body changes, interests, beliefs, attitudes go on changing, the default setting by which this aspect of ‘self’ navigates stays locked in place, often just because it hasn't been re-checked by one's conscious and inquisitive awareness.

Usually, this is the case, because this default setting lies beneath our externally oriented conscious levels of awareness.

Active consciousness colored by the filter of this setting is what we could call the 'ego'.

Such concepts as 'killing the ego', or 'taming the ego', stem out of this very setting, and are usually as ineffective as the 'war on drugs' has been since its apparition in the political lexicon during the Reagan era.

If all is ongoing change, while our visions and ideas about what happiness is meant to look, feel and be like, do not change as much, then there is a bit of misalignment between what is and our aspirations.

When I think about it, we're a very interesting species, especially in regards to our relation with time. On the one hand we tend to base our future goals, and present actions on what has happened in the past. One the hand our perception of the past is very subjective, and quite selective. And if don't believe me ask any two people to give you an account of an experience they've had and you will most likely get two different stories. Human memory is simply not reliable to capture unbiased facts.

I mean look at history, just in my time amongst the living, which isn't that long really, it seems that human history is being re-written, on a weekly basis as we go, and the changes are always coincidently good for the agendas of those who reshape the legacy of human kind.

What does all of this have to do with the moon... well, nothing and everything.

If current astronomical findings provide us with any useful hints in regards to this matter, I'd say it is that the whole universe is moving and changing around us, as it always has and always will, albeit most of the change is going unnoticed, from within our 'bubble of a planet'.

Some rhythms such as the motion of galaxies, our solar system, our binary planet/moon arrangement, last quite a long time in comparison with a human lifespan, this doesn't mean that they will go on eternally.

We are here today, who knows about tomorrow. So, one could ask, 'Why worry?' 'Why fret?' 'Why not simply let go and rejoice?'

I know one could reply that it's just human nature. But, maybe, just maybe it is an obsolete one.

One we can let go of, or shed, or outgrow, or evolve away from.

May we all evolve away from ignorance and faulty beliefs.

We are all One.