Love Flowing
When I left the Sedona Film Festival function last night, the car parked next to me had a license plate that said lvtolove. When I got in the car and turned on the radio the song that was playing was Goodbye Girl by David Gates the lead singer of Bread. Richard Dreyfuss is going to be at the film festival this week here in Sedona. When I got home last night I noticed I had written my blog but somehow not posted it. I opened my computer to Facebook and on the left of the page was a post from Marsha Mason, Dreyfuss’ co-star in the movie Goodbye Girl. Don’t you love it? While at the function last night I was remarking to another person that when I am in the flow of following my inner guidance I have so many more serendipitous events. When I get in a fear space and focus on money to pay the bills, I have less. Just sayin…….
We went to a Vegan celebration last night to eat desserts and listen to Will Tuttle perform. He is a healthy, enthusiastic, and profoundly happy vegan since 1980, and Dharma Master in the Zen Buddhist tradition, and sees his mission as one of bringing the message of radical inclusion to our wounded and fragmented culture. He plays the piano in an improvisational style. His compositions are vibrant and melodious. It was exciting to watch he and his wonderful flutist wife share their music and passion with us.
Will is also the author of The World Peace Diet. Here is the message of his book: My message is that veganism is a philosophy and practice of radical inclusion, and that going vegan is the most positive, uplifting, and trans-formative action any human being can make in our culture today. I see it as a profound and effective questioning of the core violence of our culture. I believe that veganism is a loving response that makes us part of the solution to the crises that beset us, rather than being part of the problem.
Loving is about a lot of things. Mostly, it is seeing everything and everyone as one and honoring that. Let us all do as much as we can to create a more gentle, inclusive, loving world. From my mostly loving heart to yours, Thomas