There is a Chinese
proverb that says although you may amass a million gold coins, when you depart
this world you cannot take with you even one copper penny. Oh how we belabor over
life struggling to gain and control forgetting that the only thing we can
control is our perceptions and attitudes.
We use the phrase this
too shall pass to mean that difficulty and suffering will in time pass. We
also call death a passing to symbolize an end. It also means great things you
are experiencing will eventually fade away and be forgotten. When we lose
something, especially a loved one, for a while we grieve and then we move on.
That is what humans do.
This too shall pass seem to have originated with Rumi the medieval
Persian poet? This thought which is so truly universal to the plight of human
affairs reminds us of the perpetual movement of life from good to evil and back
again.
In another telling of
this phrase it was said that Solomon the Hebrew King wanted a phrase that would
hold true in both good times and bad. He asked of the wise religious leaders
how he could find balance between the two extremes of life. The wise leader
called upon a jeweler to create a gold ring and upon it was inscribed the
Hebrew letters gimel, zayin, yud,
which began the words “Gam zeh ya'avor”
— “This too shall pass.”
When given the ring Solomon realized
that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting
things, for one day he too would pass and would be nothing but dust.
Karma yoga reminds us that all of life is constantly
changing, what might be important today might be meaningless a moment from now.
Nothing in life is permanent except for change. It is the only constant in
life. And the saying goes, “You never
step into the same river twice.”
As we all try to hold onto our sanity in this
time of pandemonium, remember that everything in life comes and goes; it moves up
and down and constantly changes. This too shall pass and when it does
remember to find the balance between extremes and in this you will discover the
true meaning of life; nothing last forever.
Doctor Lynn's Nectars for Vim Vigor Vitality
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