As a Spiritual Leader a great many people have been talking with me about the Trayvon Martin case and asking how I feel about it. Many of you know that I monitor what I take in where the news is concerned as it is my goal to live a conscious life. With so many folks talking about the case and the call to arms I have thought these thoughts. I see a great deal of conflict arising over this case and it reminds me a great deal of the Rodney King case in Los Angeles a few years back. It reminds me that when conflict, contrast, and hatred, are concerned it is of the utmost importance that I am most conscious of what I am adding to the mix. When I get up in arms and add more contrast, hatred, conflict am I adding to the resolution or am I adding more of the same making it larger and larger to the point of explosion?
I am reminded of the saying "You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew." - Albert Einstein.
One thing that has been at the top of my consciousness is to send love to all parties in the Trayvon Martin case. I know that in order to bring about resolution, there must be a change in the consciousness that brought it about. It reminds me of the talk last week at Amor Spiritual Center when I spoke of having a clogged sink. If I were to keep adding the same things down the drain that caused to it to be clogged expecting different results, that would only prove to be a true definition of insanity. Yet if I pour love into the situation and keep adding it, I know from experience that it will indeed go into the cracks and crevasses and begin to do its mighty work. There may be times when it looks as if it is not working yet I know the truth about love and how it works. Keep pouring love on it, and watch how it dissolved the very substance that was causing the blockage to begin with.
I also ask myself what am I doing in my own city and community to shift crimes of any kind. Am I involved in my neighborhood doing safety walks? Am I making a difference where I live? Am I walking with the communities in Rainer Beach after the shootings that have happened in our communities here in Seattle? Am I pouring love on violence and gang activity here in my own community? I know that fear is the key in any type of violence, fear of not enough, fear of difference, fear of losing what I have, fear of my neighbor, and I only add to that when I look on it as something outside of myself. I have to look at the areas in my life and ask: where do I look on my neighbors in fear and create separation; yet stating in my beliefs that I believe there to be only one life, one community, one love. Am I living what I teach and am I walking the walk?
I will never be able to know or understand what the Martin family is going through, yet I know that the one thing I can do for them is send them love, peace, and resolution. I know that grieving is a difficult emotion, and I know that when I look outside myself and blame others, I am forever tied to that space and time for the remainder of my existence . I do not wish that for the Martin family. I hold for them a place of peace; the peace that passes all understanding. I hold for them love where they feel surrounded with love and goodness and they know they will make it through this period in their lives and they remember Trayvon for the wonderful man he was and all the joy he brought into the world. That will never be erased no matter what.
This calls me to make a difference in the young men and women's lives in my community and teach love, forgiveness, compassion, and understanding. I want to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the world like Dr. Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, and Gandhi. They understood and taught that in order to change I must be willing to stand somewhere differently from where I am currently standing. I must be willing to give something other than I have been currently giving in order for the situation in my current life to shift. Am I willing to be that change, live that change? The resolution is not out there somewhere; it is right here within me! What do I choose to send out in the world today: faith, hope, love, or more of the same?
And the greatest of these is love.
I bless you Trayvon Martin who you are made a Difference in the world.
Namaste
Rev. Allen Mosley
Spiritual Leader
Amor Spiritual Center.
