Felt to share an experience i had today. One of many miracles that i ask daily to yield our hearts towards compassion and recognition. In London Town. Journeying to be held by Marina Abramovic, Journeying to be met in all these feelings, pain and love, life and death ~Totality~ of something raw and real that cannot be denied no more. As i looked up to find my next station, a man sitting next to me reaches out to ask if i need help. I looked back at him with a smile, thank you, i have found my stop.. Where are you from? he asks, I was born in Haifa, Israel. OH HO! He says! Salaam Habibti, he turns his body fully towards me. There is a conversation to be had here i feel. I am Ready. My eyes start welling up and my throat iches and my heart opens to what this moment shall bring. I WILL be present. What are all these bombs your throwing, hundreds every day!!.. I know i said.. so much Pain, so much pain . I feel that in this moment a pain quite deep was raised, A sort of vicious cycle of violence which needs to be addressed. From feelings of a deep conversation to be had, he stopped and grabbed my two shoulders to look into his eyes, I, am an Iraqi Sergeant, In 1991 i sent two bombs to where you were born, i sent two bombs to Haifa.. Please forgive me. Absurd. Con-fused. Everything. and Nothing at all in this moment. Humility. We both Hug a deep hug. A father of children. And a small woman welling tears, i have served the army too. Recognising that what i serve now is to be true. In this moment, with him, wrong or right, the Layers of facts, there is only one truth. I Love you he says.. Please forgive me, i respond.. we start laughing while tears stream down our eyes.. tired of fighting, we found our selves kneeling to each other.. All is left is to live a life of Prayer. Lets pray for peace, a one to be experienced inside so we stop this cycle of violence, we addressed this to each other and my next stop called me forward. Then i thought of all those towards who we are going, who are troubled by childish preoccupations and fight in ignorance and egoism for petty rivalries of interest, and ardently, in a great aspiration, i asked for them the full light of Peace. Then i thought of all those we know, all those we do not know, all the life in the making, all that has changed its form, all that is not yet in form, and for all these, even for all that cannot think about, for all that is present in my memory and for all that i forget, in deep contemplation and mute adoration, Implore Thy Peace!
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:03:23 +0000
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