Nu Zulun has voted folks!
It has been a vote for change. Of course change is that great ponderous fact of life – the only great constant. What was it that the Buddha said? Transitory, transitory are all things. Strange thing is, change is the one thing we humans tend to steadfastly resist.
Elections are a stark reminder of what Joseph Campbell called the organised inadequacies of this world. Oh yes, they grant that brief illusion of control – that somehow, maybe our destinies lie in our hands. The Tao Te Ching, however puts it plainly: “the world is forever out of control”.
We sang a great old hymn in school: “Time like an ever-rolling stream bears all its sons away. They fly forgotten as a dream dies at the opening day.” Helen has quit. Michael has quit. Winnie has disappeared from the political earth. An old familiar restaurant closes. A new one opens.
The Tao Te Ching speaks of the wise person:
“Things arise and she lets them come;
things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever”.
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