these are just thoughts that got written down as they came. Pretty much one sentence at a time as i worked with this Cloth through the day. Thoughts about Mercy
Mercy …not directly connected to anything…but naturally occuring, like "air".
the two words, Mercy and Grace are associated with Acts/Actions/Responses in human terms, but this is not how i am thinking.
Maybe Gravity might be the greatest Mercy for this planet. That it IS, first, and that it Continues.
Mercy might be the spontaneous occuring of Everything. Of Everything we know to "be".
Mercy is larger than Everything but also OF Everything. Mercy is unknowable.
Mercy is indifferent, just Occurs. And this reminds me of Trungpa talking about Basic Goodness, but in this case, not even "goodness"…just a basic What Is. "It is not for or against, in the same way that sunlight is not for or against".
It might be good to look for examples as they arise. The first of which might be that storm last Friday. That simply manifested out of a combined set of specific atmospheric conditions. Maybe the storm was in itself a Kind of Mercy that allowed discharge of wild atmospheric phenomenon and still let Life live?
I'd like to let my sense of a "Self" as an entity separate, become a part OF. No separation. The Micro Burst, us here, just parts of the One movement in time.
thinking about Grace and Mercy….to me….Grace is a benevolence. Mercy tho is of nothing, is Wildness, having no "relationship" to/with….but incompassing All, or CONSISTING OF ALL. All known and All unknown.
I watch the Sam Baker video. Mercy, in that it all "works". Over and Over and Over…continuing, or in our words here in Jude's Cloth world, just going. Maybe it's the Goingness. Maybe Mercy is just Life its self.
All the above, just Wonderings. I still haven't gotten to the "core" of the Wonder.
small changes that took all day
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