Yin is teaching me new things about life, and about life and love.
I am not a religious person in any sense of that word. Religion is generally used, it seems to me, for others to impose their thoughts on how I need to view things between myself and the Creator.
I am a very spiritual person. I simply feel closer to the Creator without the interference of other people’s thoughts on the subject.
I believe to the core that all naturally occurring things on this planet are interconnected by one basic, fundamental component: they are part of the Creator’s design for the workings of this place.
This interconnectedness strikes me most when I’m outside. Somewhere that’s untouched and existing in the manner in which it was created. Trekking through tall woods. Floating on and in, or diving under, the deep blue sea. Spelunking beside an underground stream. I’ve found that it doesn’t matter where. All that matters is that it be ‘wild’. I would guess that the feeling I have when I’m outside is in some ways similar to what others who are deeply religious feel when they attend the particular form of worship service that corresponds with their beliefs.
I am struck by a profound sense of respect for everything I’m surrounded by in these places. I appreciate what is to be found in these settings just simply for what they are…things which have been created- first and foremost –just simply to exist on this
orb. In that sense, if not others, I see myself as not being above or beneath a tree, a rock or an animal. All these things have been created to be here. Same as me. For the most part, it seems to me, all things created to be here also have some sort of purpose they serve that is dedicated to the existence and
sustenance of everything else which is here.
Take a stream. I like mine with rock bottoms. There is a connection between the stream, a rock in the stream, a small creature in the stream, and me. As you sit by the stream, you can see that the creature both lives in the stream and couldn’t live without the stream. The creature uses the rock in the stream for both cover from predators and shade from the sun. I could use the same rock the creature is using for my own purposes. I could use the creature for sustenance. I could use the stream for drinking water. We are all connected.
In this sense, when I look into the stream I feel like I’m looking directly at a footprint of the Creator. It’s a very moving experience for me. I don’t get the same sort of moving experience from handling a bottle of
Cheez Whiz at Walmart. Or looking at a professionally designed green area of a corporate office park with a plastic lined, pump powered creek.So, you may be fairly asking yourself what any of this has to do with Yin, love, sex and life, or what Yin is teaching me new about these things?It’s simple.
I feel a connection with the Creator when I’m with Yin. It’s a different connection with the Creator than I’ve ever felt before. All my previous connections have been outside in the ‘wild’. Never in church. Never with organized religion.
Never before via another person.
I need more time to put my thoughts together on this to do it justice. I’m done for now.
I love you Yin. You move me.
