blue sky

This morning I awoke to a blue sky. There was not a cloud in sight. I was sleeping on my back looking upwards and all I could see was blue. This clear blue sky symbolises freedom, spaciousness. And our essence, the very core of our being, has this feeling too, of unboundedness – a space within which anything can happen, without constraint. It is an unregulated space. When we are living in our essence, we are soaring like an albatross. We can travel thousands of miles effortlessly. There’s total freedom to move in any direction. This is the blue sky, empty – empty and full of potential – empty, yet at the same time alive.

So the blue sky can help us find that space within ourself where the rules and regulations drop away, where the expectations of society lose their power over us, where we can fly as well, like a bird, where we are free. This is the freedom that the sages speak of, the freedom to be oneself, a freedom to move untethered. And it is only our own mind, succumbing perhaps to some external pressures from other people, but it is only our own mind which tethers us, which constrains us, which holds us on the ground in a cage. So spread your wings and take off into that great blue yonder where nothing is known and everything is possible.