OCTOBER 2022 BLOG – REFLECTIONS YARO
Dear Reader,
At the end of this month of October, I will be
reaching the age where most men are considered “wise”. Yet, wisdom is not an acquired
skill but a gift from the Universe. Many men in the past historical times were described
as the wise men such as the three wise kings during the birth of Jesus, Buddha
and I particularly like Yaroslav the wise - prince of Kyiv, Ukraine (1019 –
1054).
In 1987, on my arrival to Australia, I took the
name of YARO which is short for Yaroslav. However, this blog is not about names
but the story of TIME. Perhaps most people have an instinctive awareness that
time is a mystery. The whole idea of time is that is “marching on” and we feel
that “time is running out” and thus time becomes a commodity to either run with
it or save time for important things in life. We are in great hurry to “race
against time” and, as we become more deeply aware, we discover that time is
nothing to be kept or discard as we wish, but we really get to the truth: TIME
IS AN ETERNITY!
Modern people are tied to the wristwatch and
are oblivious of the fact that time is like a river – it just flows and flows.
It something we cannot measure on a clock. Science has been able to design the ‘atomic
clock’. An atomic clock is a clock that measures time by monitoring the
resonant frequency of atoms. It is based on atoms having different energy
levels. Electron states in an atom are associated with different energy levels,
and in transitions between such states they interact with a very specific
frequency of electromagnetic radiation. This phenomenon serves as the basis for
the International System of Units' (SI) definition of a second (Wikipedia).
So, instead of looking at the watch or
measuring seconds on the atomic clock, as everyday life requires, sometimes
just take a walk at night, and look at the starry night sky and feel the Nature
all around you in an eternal flow of the immeasurable time. This flow of time
is felt in the changing of seasons all over this planet and try to marvel at the
blooming of flowers in springtime.
The ancients described time origins as stemming from
the eternal darkness when a sudden light emerged and thus creating the Universe.
This event separated the light from darkness and established the flow of time that
is cyclical and eternal. We can picture the alteration of time flow as the
waves of the ocean constantly moving and flowing like an eternal dance.
I am now looking at the nearest galaxy called ANDROMEDA
(see picture). This galaxy is circling at the rete of 2.5 million light years
and has a radius of 110,000 light years. Here is the idea of TIME as the great
circle of life that leads to an inevitable end or death. This death leads to
new life again. It is always circling in the dance of Eternity. By placing time
on a linear (digital) measure, we lost the connection with Eternity. This loss
is at the cost of security in the measuring time. Daily saving time by turning back
the clock one hour is useful but it does not connect us with the eternal time. Before
the clock time, there was a local phenomenon. Where people would feel the movement
of the seasons that gave them notice of what to plant and when to gather. Time and space were experienced as an essential
element of life ever changing.
One of the ways the Wise men suggest in becoming
aware of the eternal time is through storytelling,
rituals of ancient times (like the aboriginals in Australia) and celebrations
of the ‘day of the dead’ in Mexico. The Halloween day is also a symbolic event
celebrating the day where children dress in costumes and do the “trick or treat”
game to get a reward of candies.
By understanding that time is a flow of energy that
emerges from darkness into light and the returns to darkness again, we will be
less afraid of death as an eternal emptiness but also a potential to regenerate
and be reborn or transformed. So, turn your imagination to the passing of
seasons ever year and celebrate with rituals every season as a passing of time. From
darkness to light, from winter to summer and that is the way of becoming part
of the Eternal - Cosmic time. Connecting us to the origins of Creation.
Coming back to my reflections about time, as a
way I experience Time as an external flow, I am noting how the taking the name
of YARO has given me a going back in time to the ancient city state of Kyiv,
Ukraine, where I feel a link to that ancient Slavic people so riding the waves
of time, to my own birth in Ukraine, the leaving my country due to the
communist invasion, living in Venezuela and then in Canada and finally in Australia.
My connection to life as eternity is a fascinating reflection of my experience
about the time I lived this life. I encourage you to take some photos of your
baby times, your toddler times, your teen times, and your adult time and
examine your flow of life as you are growing and changing and how Eternity is
being reflected in each photo. Take the courage of experiencing your own
eternity!!
