A Vision This Morning

While in meditation this morning, I received a vision.

In that vision, I was walking peacefully on a wet white sand beach, and very happy. Time didn't seem to have meaning.

On that beach was a small black caldron.

Because it was my turn, I became human and waded into the caldron's hot churning water, for the world existed in the caldron.

Soon everything seemed starkly real - wars, poverty, hunger, ignorance, violence, disease and hopelessness were there. And some people were loud and belligerent.

In addition I felt the pressure to earn a living and to take on roles others defined for me.

Most people were fearful and stressed and there were always problems, many of which I felt compelled to respond to.

The problems were karmic, meant for my growth, which was my purpose in being there, or they were problems others had thrust upon each other, also for karmic purposes.

But unless I created balance in my life, by learning to laugh, by forgiving, and through the clarity of meditation, it could become overwhelming.

Then this human life ended and I found myself on the other side of the caldron, walking peacefully once again on the wet white sand beach, and I was happy.

As I walked, I realized most of the problems in that caldron exist only in the caldron.

Reality is vastly bigger than the tiny caldron, and it awaits us as we return to the spiritual, the real world from which we came, as wiser, more enlightened beings from all the caldron caused us to endure.

Dick
In the vision, I saw the beach and the caldron, and the rest was an intuitive understanding of what I was seeing.