From the Editors

   Enza Vita                        Leo Drioli

Adelaide issue 9 & Sydney issue 2

Every moment speaks to us clearly and directly. If we are willing to look and listen with open eyes and willing hearts, every day is a bountiful treasure of opportunity for deeper awakening.

Today’s message from Marianne Williamson on the desk calendar reads:

“It’s not up to us what we learn, but only whether we learn through joy or through pain. We learn to love one another, but whether we learn it painfully or peacefully is entirely up to us.”

Such beautiful freedom each day holds. So, what is it we are actually doing with this freedom?

The following illustration out of Tibet is a timely reminder:  When we die and enter the Bardo, we are taken before a judge to review our life’s work.
“What have you done with your freedom?” the judge asks.

Immediately we are shown that before we came down into incarnation we were given a mission:
There is a vast forest with a thousand trees. We are handed enough time, energy and pure gold to paint every single tree in the forest with this gold.

When we finally end our life and face the judge, we are shown our life’s work, and usually find that we we’ve only painted two or maybe three branches, if we are lucky.

Not every life needs to be lived this way. We actually do have the freedom to make this one count.

There’s a Sufi teaching that states that in every day we have 150 opportunities of awakening. When I first heard this I was deeply moved, wondering how this might translate into moments in time. Just for the fun of it we grabbed a calculator and took the 16 hours that we are awake and divided it by 150 and got an answer that both challenged and inspired:
Every 6 minutes!

In every 6 minutes there’s a spiritual opportunity to see what’s really happening down here, the freedom to see it consciously.
“It’s not up to us what we learn, but only whether we learn through joy or through pain. We learn to love one another, but whether we learn it painfully or peacefully is entirely up to us.”

Every 6 minutes…what a gift!
This freedom is the freedom we all are seeking yet already possess, the freedom to be awake with what’s before us, the freedom to learn and live in joy instead of pain.

So what happens in those other 8 hours that we sleep? Here, often even greater work is taking place. The other morning I woke up to the following affirmation whispering through my thinking, it flowed into me from my night’s journeying, offering a simple strategy for the coming day’s learning: “Unity…in peace…with joy.”

Remember, every 6 minutes!

Make the most of each moment,
with love,

Leo & Enza

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