March Hare “Suppose it should be raving mad, after all! I almost wish I’d gone to see the Hatter instead!”

Are you letting fear take the lead? Are you letting fear boss you around and influence how you respond to your life? Alice has a similar experience with the March Hare. Let's see what wisdom it holds for us . . .

Alice, after consulting with the Cheshire Cat about which direction she should take through the forest, decides to avoid the Mad Hatter, and go towards the home of the March Hare, “. . . perhaps . . . it won’t be raving mad,”only to discover that both the Hatter and the Hare are at the tea party, and both are, in fact,  completely mad.  Alice has a dreadful time making any sense of what is being said and done after she crashes the party.

This little dilemma Alice finds herself in calls to mind a joke I heard once that I liked:  A man is in the market place in Jaipur, and sees the face of death, the Grim Reaper, who glances at him, and does an astonished double take.  The man, equally astonished and completely terrified of confronting Death, gets on his camel and races across the desert to escape.  He doesn’t stop for food or water for himself or his camel, he is so frightened, and finally his camel can take no more and dies.  The man takes off running on foot until, having pushed himself too much, also starts to perishes in the desert, and just before he goes he sees Death approach.  Facing his certain demise, he asks Death why he had such an expression of shock on his face when he’d seen him in the market place, and Death replies: “I was surprised to see you in the Jaipur market this morning because I knew I had an appointment with you all the way out here in the desert this evening.”  

Basically, the March Hare is here as a reminder that you can walk, saunter, gallop, run, or even jump through the looking glass, but you can’t hide from certain experiences along the pathways of Wonderland.  Making decisions based on avoiding something we are afraid of, may be the very thing that leads us straight into that which we are running from (which usually isn’t as bad as we would first assume anyway).  Reacting to fears and those who frighten us gives them rein over the chess game.  We will never be able to catch up if they are always one step ahead, making the moves, and we follow in our reactions to them.  It is important to take a moment to stop, drop the fear (even if just for one moment), and roll into what our true path should be, regardless of how frightened we may be of certain circumstances in our lives.  Give yourself just a moment to let go of fear, and move in your own true direction.

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Little Bill:“Why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn’t be in Bill’s place for a good deal!”

As Alice finds herself, once again, an inconvenient size (this time too big to escape the home of the White Rabbit where she was sent to fetch some white gloves), a controversy ensues.  The White Rabbit wants her out, or to be let in, but there is no option.  Alice is simply too large to leave or allow room for entry.  In an urgent and not so thoughtful attempt at meeting the problem head-on, a small lizard by the name of Little Bill is dropped into the home via the chimney which only leads to a brief launch into space for Bill, and the further agitation of the crowd that has gathered outside the over-occupied abode. “Why Bill?” you may ask.  It isn’t his house, and except for the fact that he’s been coerced into the matter, it isn’t even his problem.  Little Bill is being played as a pawn.  He apparently doesn’t have any strength of will to protest, and will pay the consequences for allowing others to push him into taking on a problem that isn’t his and is much too big for such a little lizard.

Little Bill has fallen into your reading, perhaps, as a sign that you are being asked to do something completely ridiculous and much beyond your means, just as Little Bill was asked to go in and retrieve the oversized Alice from the White Rabbit’s home.  This is either going to take a great deal of courage and creative efforts (verging on the magical), or maybe it is important for you to avoid an almost certain painful and abrupt ejection by saying “no.”  Little Bill goes along with the commands of the White Rabbit without stopping to protest or consider the likelihood of failure, pain and suffering on his part . . . and all for the retrieval of a pair of kid gloves!  It hardly seems worth all of the drama!  Do you find you are unable to stand up for yourself?  Do you find yourself ambling down other people’s metaphorical chimneys, knowing the dreadful consequences that await, yet unable to voice your wants, needs and limits?  It is time to start the empowering practice of  “just say no.”  I know it may not be as easy as it sounds if you are used to pleasing others and feel a sense of being small when confronted by friends, bosses, co-workers, or lovers to do things you aren’t comfortable with.  So, now is the time to start working on strengthening this skill.

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The Elusive Path to the Garden: “But how curiously it twists! It’s more like a corkscrew than a path!”

Have you ever found yourself trying to get away from a challenge only to find yourself faced with it again and again despite your best efforts? If so, you may have unwittingly passed into the land of the Looking Glass. Don't fret. Alice's adventure to the Elusive Garden will help you unravel the mystery to finding your way to refuge . . .

Alice wants to make it to a beautiful garden on the hill just outside the Looking Glass house.  Despite continuous attempts at leaving, she repeatedly finds herself back at the house again: “ . . . wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, do what she would.”

Because Alice is in the reverse-land of the Looking Glass, things don't stick to the same rules as those on the other side of the mirror. 

Sometimes, when we find ourselves unable to move beyond a certain unpleasant situation or apparent obstacle, it is important to consciously turn back and move towards it before we can proceed past it.  Fears, pain, old injuries, they can stick around, dragging us down and throwing off our sense of direction and self if we don’t take the time to do an about-face, understand, heal and attend to any necessary amelioration before heading off into new directions.  With these old experiences on our backs, we tend to re-experience similar circumstances over and over again, just as Alice continually runs into the house she is so purposefully walking away from.  This isn’t a punishment, it’s an opportunity to actually come to a completion and letting go of old and worn out wounding; without our personal care and attention, we are doomed to continue to run into the same old scenarios.  Alice does recognize that she could cross back into the ordinary realm she left behind as a way of escaping this crazy path, but chooses, instead to pursue her goal, for, as she so adeptly puts it, “. . . there’d be an end of all my adventures!” which she surely doesn’t want yet.  And if we want to continue to adventure and experience new joys and new opportunities on the chess board of life, we have to truly complete the old experiences we want to leave behind.

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The White Rabbit: “Oh, my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!”

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Has time been getting the best of you? Have you been rushing around like a chicken who'd paid a visit to the Queen of Hearts? (With its head cut off, that is). The White Rabbit has scurried through to give you a few insights about rushing through time as if it were running out.

While the White Rabbit is constantly running around, frantically trying to get to the Queen of Hearts’ croquet party, Alice has all sorts of adventures, and she still makes it to the party without any trouble.  The White Rabbit doesn’t stop for one moment, and he doesn’t seem to be enjoying himself very much either. For all of the hurrying he’s doing, he doesn’t seem to be accomplishing much.

How is it that time is infinite, and yet so limited for us?  Perhaps it is because we experience time, on this side of the looking glass, linearly.  We seem to have to move through it as if it had a beginning and an end, one moment in front of another, in front of another.  Maybe, too, this is why we rush through time so quickly.  We are trying to use up as much of it as possible, since it seems there is a shortage of it in our linear thinking.  It makes sense, then, if we treat time as though it is linear, with a beginning and an end, that rushing through it, will bring us, more quickly, to the end of our time.  That seems a bit counter-productive, wouldn’t you say? 

This attempt at trying to use up as much time as possible, curiously, is the same thing that makes it feel as though there is never enough of it.  Instead of trying to skip ahead in the time line to have enough of it, the key to finding the endless nature of time, just maybe, is to be as still as possible, experiencing time, not linearly, but as a vast, expansive and limitless moment without end. 

If you consciously invite time into your experience, and spend some time getting to know it, you might be able to have your way with it.  The act of meditation itself, especially at first, is an exercise in transmuting our experience of time.  How long 3 minutes can seem when all there is to do is breathe and sit, and let our thoughts go!  That is one purpose of meditation, to be able to experience the vastness of time.  If we had limitless time, we could achieve anything, and it is in the precious, undiluted moments of complete stillness that time stops and we become limitless.

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