It's the End of the World! • I Have the Moody Weather! (CW003)
Sun keeps on shining. Sea rushes to shore. But it's the end of the world! What's up there! Well you see — it's just the little world you've crafted that is ending. You didn't get what you wanted. A little collapse — and then into inner rebirth again. Sun keeps on shining. Weather is your associate. Happy cycles in your seasons.
♪ Why does the sun keep on shining? ♪ Why does the sea rush to shore? ♪ Don't they know it's the end of the world! — Because I'm not having it the way I want it!
So look darling, your moods there are as off-key from the beats and melodies of the universe as my singing in the opening. The sun keeps on shining, because it's doing its thing, right? And the birds keep on singing and the sea keeps on rushing to the shore, as it happens. Don't need to read anything into it.
So I mentioned the other day about how the weather isn't moody. It's just you who gets moody when you don't like the weather. And then I posted a video where it's raining cats and dogs and I'm borderline soaking. What's with that?
So yeah, there is definitely a certain emotional resonance in different types of weather. As out there — so in here. Different tunings, different configurations, different tensions — that happens. It's natural and it's beautiful.
The only problem is when you don't like that. That makes you sad. That generates suffering. That's the only bad mood. Soaking wet, hurting like hell, that's not bad mood. That's not suffering. That's just what is, it's an experience. Sweet heart taking a hike, a beloved pet creature dying. That's also not bad, bad. And it's not bad mood fundamentally. It just is what is.
Yeah, you have certain emotions. As the weather rises and falls — but it's not bad, bad. Maybe it's not the feeling that you prefer. But you see, right there is the problem. You so prefer. We prefer particular mental states and unprefer, avoid, reject other mental states. Battle with them. That leads to unnecessary tension and suffering. That's avoidable.
So the birds keep on singing in their nests. Minding their own business. Not yours. The sea keeps on rushing to the shore. The tides keep on turning. The glaciers at mountain tops keep on happily melting and dripping away.
And yes, sometimes it is the end of your world. A particular world you created for yourself. And then it's time to be reborn into a new world, a new frame of reference. Decluttering, clearing away that which led to your decay, your demise. Holding on to the essence that was pristine, that was clear.
In there too, the sun keeps on shining, the moon keeps on reflecting, and the stars keep on glowing above. Be mindful of how you weave that new world of yours. Too many strings attached, and you trip into your own trip-wires all over again.
When the mountains are leveled and the oceans are raised, when everything absolute flatlines, that's the actual end of the world. Other than that, we are simply regenerating, over and over and over. Happy cycles.
Casually watching those cycles. Witnessing the weather rising and falling. That's what we do. Casual Watcher out.
