In any one day, the number of cognitive encounters the mind engages in seem to be increasing at an amazingly quick pace. Need less to say, it is difficult to keep up with the planetary, climate, people, animal, community, internet and cellular changes, links and transits that splash on my veranda. Furthermore, with it being so difficult to keep up, it becomes more pertinent to decipher the valuable content—deleting the spam and walking away from the things that are not relative to our physical well-being, mental focus and spiritual evolution.

As the planet Pluto slowly digs deeper into our sense of caution, caution that first jolts with Uranus fervor our complacency of ignorance and delusion of reality, but also brings birth to the need to stay put, meditate, and learn from the point of emptiness how to survive. Not only individual survival but for all living beings on planet earth as well as earth itself. This brings birth to the ideal essence of our present purpose…

In an article called Awakening To Total Revolution, which first appeared in What Is Enlightenment Magazine, Issue 19 called “Can Enlightenment Save the World”, from the book: Spirituality and Social Action: A Holistic Approach, published in 1984, 26 years later Vimala Thaker echos my heart and soul.

In the first paragraph of Part 1 she says:

“In a time when the survival of the human race is in question, to continue with the status quo is to cooperate with insanity, to contribute to chaos. When darkness engulfs the spirit of the people, it is urgent for concerned people to awaken, to rise to revolution.”

That is a scary word, revolution. When people hear it they usually hope you muttered something else, like evolution, or resolution. Funny, that both these words are encompassed in the word revolution.

But revolution can be seen differently than the word war invokes. Revolution can be the fire of the divine coming down to burst the bubble of unrelated cognitive clutter that works hard at confusing our sanity. Revolution can be the guiding light we long for to blind our fears and brighten our courage. Revolution can be the coming together of a billion voices singing out the time has come. Revolution can be the energy forces that invincibly command our spirit to act.

Acting with a spirit of revolution is seen throughout history, where 1000s of people gather together to voice their concerns for peace, environmental laws, human rights, religious freedom and economic and class justice.

In Stephanie Austin’s July 2010 Astrology Full Moon Newletter, she provides a link to one of the most powerful collective human protests of recorded history. Here is the trailer to the video Singing Revolution, the story of how the people of Estonia freed themselves from Soviet occupation… “A single nation, a million voices, the fall of an empire”

http://www.singingrevolution.com/

http://www.singingrevolution.com/cgi-local/content.cgi?pg=1

I would like to be comfortable with the word revolution but I realize first that I have to be totally bathed in the committment to non-violence, love-metta, kindness-garuna, compassion/empathy-mutita, equanimity-ubeka. These virtuous Buddhist precepts for all relationships lay the foundation for revolution.

I feel better about being a revolutionary when I have the help of Buddha Dharma at my side. I feel better about revolution when I can sing my heart out in prayer for peace, environmental safety, sustainable economics, wisdom and enlightenment for all humans. Singing is the way to Total Revolution. It the way to survive.

Revolution, total revolution is spiritual revolution. It is revolution for the whole planet. The concept may be new, different, remote and imposible for some people. But with the present ingress of Saturn into Libra of organizing the natural drive toward our collective harmony, singing may be the way to the impossible dream, the dream we need to wake up to: our survival.