Some Thanksgiving Wisdom.

[ExploringReality]

Tying in Leo's recent episode on exploring the nature of conformity, and looking at conformity through my own direct experience I realize that most of how people treat and experience Thanksgiving is pure conformity! Thanksgiving in of itself has a core to it that we can say is the essence of why Thanksgiving was created, the kernel of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is relative to any given culture, many subcultures celebrate it differently, different foods, different ways of celebrating it, but outside the tradition and norms within a family household, the point of Thanksgiving is to experience Love. Not just absolute Love, the Love of God, but to share ones personal love with another, albeit an ethnocentric form or maybe even a stage green form of love that extends beyond familiar people onto strangers or giving back to those not well off, sharing and giving are the main themes. Thanks-Giving! People take!!! It's for Absolute Love to bust through the ego and petty human survival at least once a year someone out of the billions on this planet, might let actual Truth and Love to shine through. It's not about the food, it's about Being Love. Being grateful of existence and sharing that love with another even if they can't see that, this is Thanksgiving. At least for me lol.

Being in love, seeing through the social conformity machine and still washing dishes, serving food, sharing moments and giving to those that are moving in the machine is my state of consciousness at the moment. No superiority, no moral judgment, no guilt for not eating to make others feel comfortable, no looking down on those that are operating from conformity. Free from the craving and bad food heaviness after endulging. No craving for the foods I once splurged on. No Internal resistance.

Sitting at the table with family is what is meaningful while paradoxically seeing it has no meaning is a beautiful thing, like an impossible shape. Knowing their are those that don't have a family, food. I give and extend my love to them and even further to the animals and further into all beings in the universe and finally further to God as my self. Self love.

Edited 3 hours ago by ExploringReality

[Inliytened1]

Very nicely said.