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10/19/2024

The Pulse – Oct 13 to 19 – The 32nd Gene Key moves from the Shadow of Failure to the Siddhi of Veneration and it is the Way of Preservation

‘To create something of value, or to preserve something of value for future generations is the most wonderful way of spending one’s life. Maybe we take a piece of land and nurture and beautify it, like this wonderful story by Jean Giono, ‘The Man Who Planted Trees’. The hero is a simple peasant living in an arid area of France where nothing grows and people are poor and wretched. He goes out each day of his life and he plants trees in ever-increasing circles around his home. People come, people go, and still he goes on planting trees. A lot of the trees die, but he just goes on planting regardless. The years go by, the war comes, and still our man continues planting trees. The war ends, the new government arrives, and they realise there’s this big forest. They claim it and begin logging there, cutting down the trees. The peasant ignores it all and just continues planting trees. He’s miles away from his original home now since the forest has continued to expand and grow far beyond the place where he started. The government falls, and once again the trees are left alone. Now he’s an old man, but still he continues. Now there’s a vast forest grown up, a whole rich eco-system where people are making all kinds of new livings, and more people are moving to the area all the time. The soil has improved for miles around, the trees have brought life with them, birds, wildlife, water, and all manner of plant life. Villages spring up, new communities which flourish as the land flourishes. The old man goes on planting, until he’s just too old anymore.
He dies peacefully, with the sounds of the forest and its life in his ears. No one knows who he is. No one knows what he’s done. But he knows.’ The 64 Ways

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06/15/2024

HONESTY

is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, with the world, or with our self.

The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties: all of us are afraid of loss, in all its forms, all of us, at times, are haunted or overwhelmed by the possibility of a disappearance, and all of us therefore, are one short step away from dishonesty. Every human being dwells intimately close to a door of revelation they are afraid to pass through. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

The ability to speak the truth is as much the ability to describe what it is like to stand in trepidation at this door, as it is to actually go through it and become that beautifully honest spiritual warrior, equal to all circumstances, we would like to become. Honesty is not the revealing of some foundational truth that gives us power over life or another or even the self, but a robust incarnation into the unknown unfolding vulnerability of existence, where we acknowledge how powerless we feel, how little we actually know, how afraid we are of not knowing and how astonished we are by the generous measure of loss that is conferred upon even the most average life.

Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story, we do not know where we are in the story; we do not know who is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. Honesty is not a weapon to keep loss and heartbreak at bay, honesty is the outer diagnostic of our ability to come to ground in reality, the hardest attainable ground of all, the place where we actually dwell, the living, breathing frontier where there is no realistic choice between gain or loss.

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HONESTY

From CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
Revised Edition : David Whyte and Many Rivers Press 2020
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