When Everything Breaks

I've had a couple days now where I keep breaking things.

First I dropped my PC speakers on the ground so many times they finally stopped working.

Then I washed off a cutting mat and put it in the countertop drying rack, but it fell out and took out my glass french press that was beside it on the counter.

Then today I woke up to find the VOIP phone isn't working. I've been trying to reconfigure it.

I drove over to one of my family's houses to drop off a vegetable and cheese puff pastry I made last night, and drove with incredible attentiveness, realizing I was in a breaking streak and not wanting to be in a car accident.

As Above So Below

I think sometimes we just have unconscious patterns at play affecting how everything goes. Call it astrology, or karma, or hormonal shifts... whatever the reason. But things seem to go in patterns. Right now I'm in a break things pattern. So today I will be doing not much of anything, though I do hope I'll get the VOIP working today.

I wonder if it may be a broader pattern I'm tapping into, not just for my life.

Isn't there a way we could look at much that is happening now as a period in which everything is breaking?

Our economic systems are breaking.

Our political systems are breaking.

Our educational system is breaking.

Our medical system is breaking (at least here in the US).

Our community systems are in some places breaking and in others existing breaks are starting to be repaired.

And that is the point of it, isn't it?

What breaks does so in order to be repaired in a new and better form.

We are growing. We are improving. We are evolving.

Along the way, things have to break.

As a Buddhist teacher wisely instructed me once:

The path of awakening is the path of disillusionment. We must let go of all our illusions, especially our illusions about awakening.

How's your letting go doing today?

Are you fighting it or dancing it?

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