Thank-you, M'am!

jax wrote:

> For instance, for some strange reason many practitioners of Buddhism,
> etc. that I have known have had some major emotional traumas in their
> past and often in early childhood, like sexual abuse or violent physical
> and emotional abuse. These scars run deep and can effect a person's
> entire world/self view for life. Just my opinion, but I think more than
> "preliminary practices" are required in these cases.

R:
I think 'betrayal and abandonment' issues, for starters, are very
widespread. But if we had to wait to 'clean the windows of the soul'
before light can enter -- well, go figure. I think things are set up much
more openly, and we are allowed an easy end run to Just So, or whatever-
you-want-to-call it -- the End of Seeking.

What I've noticed is that it's in the area of one's deepest wounds that
one's unique insights -- and abilities -- blossom. Makes me believe that I
picked this exact incarnation for the particular lessons it has taught me.
Despite some early war trauma and loss as a 2-yr-old (my mother to a
fascist assassination squad in Spain), I'm truly grateful for the 'bumps
in the road.'

My American guardian (foster mother) once told me that as children they
called the dips in the road 'Thank-you M'ams.' Why? Because when the car
hit the dip, it made their heads bob forward in the approved polite 'curtsy'
to grown-ups that they had been taught.

I practice Wavy Gravy's mantra: "Thank you very much. I have no
complaints whatsoever." If he can keep saying this with all the serious
back surgeries he's had, so can I say to She Who Manifest First from the
Unmanifest, "Thank you M'am! Thank you for allowing me the time, the
leisure, the good health and general lack of worries that have allowed
me to purr my way to You in my heart!"

P.S. If you want an overview of just how grim childhood has been over the
aeons, go to:
http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/05_history.html