Melting Moments

So, sometimes things happen and you are taken completely off guard.

Things are unfolding in front of you and you realize you haven't got enough information.

Things are moving too fast and you are aware the opportunity will slip by you - but, you don't even know in what the opportunity really lies: is it the person, is it the situation, is it some mysterious information they have but they themselves could be unaware that it is important to you.

Well this is a good example of the dragonfly metaphor.

In Chinese folklore, dragonflies are symbols of fleeting wonderful moments - like some idyllic few afternoon hours in summertime, when there is a little cool breeze, quiet stillness over the brook, no one around, not much to trouble you on your mind, and a gleaming bright dragonfly flits by and hovers over the water briefly.

For you the moment is fleeting. It came, then it went.

But for the dragonfly, it was ages - because their optic nerves and their brain, operates at super-fast speed and everything to them is as we would see it in slow motion.

...And that is how you should assess every situation in which you think something 'mysterious' is transpiring.

Okay so you missed it this time.

But there will be a next time and a time after that too.

Trouble is, as humans we see things move only seemingly very slowly - there is no instant connection between the unjust act and its resolution in Cosmic Time.

Nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, then too many bad things happen all at once - then the Genie with Three Wishes turns up right at that moment and interposes themselves in the midst of that whole bunch of nonsense that wants to demand our immediate attention, when in the back of our minds, it's the Genie that counts - and we know it.

But then, the Genie is gone.

Layered Turkish Delight Pavlova.
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What is the lesson of the dragonfly?

It is that you must be able to switch on or off, the super high speed 'seeing' and thinking aspects of your mind and of your senses...

...in order to get to the idyllic summertime hazy lazy moments at all.

Your mind must be like Bruce Lee, flowing like the water, fast like the wind.

Oh, Grasshopper. Sorry, Dragonfly.

Everything we do here is enchanting. It's all about enchantment. We are in the business of enchanting the whole entire Universe and bending it to our will. Isn't that so?