The third element of the Prime Directive is to nurture life and struggle against death for the welfare of the planet and the coexistence of all living things. For decades there has been much talk involving the key (buzz) word sustainability. The Prime Directive puts this talk to the test and so can you. Can you have infinite growth in a finite or limited system? The answer is clearly, No! Ask yourself what proportion of our national and global resources go into projects that nurture life (education of children, sustainable use of energy resources, protection of our fresh and salt water resources, etc.) and how much of our national and global resources go into projects that undermine life and facilitate death (poor industrial waste management, counterproductive food production and contamination management systems, research and development of chemical, biological, nuclear, and electronic tools of war, etc.). In the Handbook the Mysterious Dr. M. states that peace does not descend down from governments and powerful organizations and corporations. Peaceful Space, the kind of Peace that emanates from your heart and emerges from a new perspective on life, that peace comes about through your and my individual choices.
How did you nurture life this week? Planting a flower is nice but how about the life of the many people with whom you had contact this week? Were you conscious of nurturing the life force within them? And what about how you treated yourself this week? Were you kind to yourself, self-encouraging? Did you treat your body well? Did you feed your spirit? How can you call Peaceful Space into the world if you can't make it emerge within yourself? We all die over time! A little bit at a time! Sometimes the death is so subtle that those around you miss the signs. And sometimes they miss the signs because they simply aren't paying attention. And sometimes, even you can miss the signs of your gradual and piecemeal death. Can you relate?
The Prime Directive is about mindfulness - about being present in each of the moments when your choices can be of profound affect. This world is a place of struggle. Life and death enter this world together and it is up to you to orchestrate the battle that takes place between them on all three planes, mental, physical, and spiritual. How are you doing with that struggle? How wonderful it would be if you and your family and friends decided to adopt the Prime Directive as a guide for your choices in 2010, and if each of your chose to Create Peaceful Space.
May you be in Peaceful Space in the New Year and Decade!
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In harmony with the statement that Peaceful Space, ‘comes about through your and my individual choices”, President Obama, at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (2009), desires young people to be “makers of things [environmentally speaking], not just consumers of things.” He gives an example of Bill Anders, one of the astronauts aboard Apollo 8, who takes a photo showing the Earth coming up over the moon’s horizon. It was the first ever photo shot from that vantage point. Anders states that this moment forever changes him due to seeing the earth as a “pale blue sphere, without borders, without divisions, tranquil, beautiful and alone”.
In harmony with Dr. M. statements that peace emanates from our heart and perspective on life, I see myself as a "peaceful warrior" in a path of courage between life and death. The courage to do what is right even when it's not easy. The courage to trust my own inner voice above input from others. The courage to pursue my passion and dreams even when the obstacles seem overwhelming. As a "peaceful warrior" I also follow a path of love and compassion, of awareness and of deepening spiritual consciousness, of living in the here and now and being fully present to not only myself but to everything around me in the moment.
References:
Obama, Barack, (2009). Obama’s Call to Create, Not Just Consume. Retrieved on January 1st, 2010 from http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/obamas-call-to-create-not-just-consume
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