1. Butterfly and Its Cocoon: Learned Lessons and lessons learning Life is an oscillation between death and birth. There is no other cycle as this in the universe. However, death is a component of all of our body; mind, soul, emotion and spirit are stripped away and dissolve. As the body dies, the senses and subtle elements dissolve, as does the ordinary aspects of our mind. When all aspects of our body die and dissolve or disintegrate. Our conscious is open to the “clear light” – and this dissolves into the all “encompassing space”. Always remember that the nature of all things in the universe is naked, clear and open for embracing with love and compassion. Much like a butterfly in real life, from birth to adolescence to flying away (i.e. leaving the comforts of home) in search of a better life and prosperity, the rest of everything else is like a blank piece of paper constantly being crumpled up and thrown in the trash-bin of society’s “don’t needs.” We produce so people who do nothing but dance the so-called lemonade dance. The lemonade dance discourse simply discusses the waste that society repetitively produces everyday of people, of youths, of resources, and of things. I bemoan this lack of charitable love and compassion that has been subsumed under the term called favouritism. Papua New Guinea has so many lemonade dancers from the Defence Force, to the political class, to the public service machinery to the teaching service commission where all we do 95 per cent of the time is turn out waste. Lemonade dancers are those amongst us who fail to be productive in the productiveness nature of the term ‘productive’. What is does productive mean in a PNG context? Does it mean “exchange” in local Dobu culture? I find it taxing that we in Papua New Guinea should allow the producing of waste; when there are thousands of ways to make a lemonade dancer do the actual hard yards and become more a harmonious dancer in society who doesn’t’ always leave with the mainstream current in any high tide on the open ocean but at times opts to swim in the opposite direction - that is against the current in the open ocean.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 06:19:33 +0000
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