Randy Andy

[iamom]

This Andrew Cohen quote of the week frustrates me a bit. The last couple sentences just don't hold water for me. They're not concrete enough, or something. They don't make any sense to me. Lacking in substance, like some of what I read from the Dalai Lama.

Where we're headed, I don't know. I hope we survive our own death wish, our own selfishness, because there's so much that we're capable of. We have such profound and miraculous potential and it's taken fifteen billion years for us to get to this point. It would be a cosmically tragic waste for us to destroy ourselves so that the evolutionary process wouldn't be able to continue. We can't even imagine what's possible, but what becomes obvious is that our duty as awakened beings is to give everything to that process. At least from my point of view, we could say that we hadn't reached a liberated state until we've come to that point in our own evolution when we are truly giving all of ourselves to that process, because that's what we're here for. And in that doing and that giving we find our freedom, and we are one with the life process itself, and everything begins to line up. Suddenly there's this extraordinary discovery that being exactly who one is, even as a personal entity with a personal history, begins to make perfect sense in the cosmic stream of things, and then we're free to participate, which is what we're all here for.

I guess he feels that he's on some sort of a mission. I think people connect with him though, which is good. I wonder if he could direct his movement to meaningful political action of some sort. I learned from an interview that his original path in life was to be a jazz drummer. That always struck me as interesting, but possibly only because I also play jazz.