Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Jelly"fish"

For the past few days I have been thinking a lot about jellyfish.
These jelly "fish" have NO blood, NO brain, NO heart!!!
Now, think about this for a second..... they do not have any of these vital organs for us humans, yet they have been around 600 million years! They do not have a brain.... therefore they don't have memories, they don't think, they don't compete, they don't complain,they don't have a sense of "I" like humans do.
They don't even have lungs or nose! they get their oxygen through diffusion.
Jellyfish can taste, know the difference between light and darkness, keep themselves balanced and sense up and down.
Its funny how us humans can barely do that. We have to try very hard to keep our lives balanced and know right from wrong...

They live in the present, don't really care about the past, and don't worry about the future. Yet, they are good predators, and can be very harmful to humans. They just eat, sleep, reproduce, die.

Jellyfish are graceful underwater, they just.... FLOAT. They do not go against the current, but if they need to move out quickly they can propel themselves.


If jellyfish have no heart... does that mean they have no feelings?
Do jellyfish have soul? maybe they have survived this long, and maybe there are so many species because they don't have greed, arrogance, guilt, grudges, memories, temptations...
Maybe having no heart is very good, that way you don't have any attachments, nothing holding you down, nothing blurring your vision of reality.

Maybe we humans need to learn from them:
Live in the present, and just float gracefully in this sea of life. Enjoy the ride. don't fight against the current.
I like to believe that jellyfish do have a soul...and that their soul can be seen on the outside... pure, and transparent. No lies, no attachments, no pain. Just living a pure, authentic, genuine, natural, clear life.

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