I feel like I am really tapped into Source right now. Those of you who are less esoteric in nature will probably read this and roll your eyes, thinking, 'Oh here we go again, another hippie ranting about the collective consciousness,' but I have to say it, I don't care what the non-believers will think of me.
I have recently tapped into this amazing group of people in my community. This group is made up of people who all feel this vibrational energy that is rising up, right now, with an alarming speed. I have been slowly cruising toward this thing, this goal, dream/wish/creation that my mind has come up with (or perhaps it was dreamed up outside of my own mind and put there by some other, greater consciousness, some Oneness, who can know? If you don't know, can you really say it isn't possible?)
I may have written about it here that I had a vision after returning from Saguaro Man. This vision was of me in the future, creating a space with other people. This space was a place for community to come together and practice yoga and experience body work and to create together; there was a community garden in this place, with chickens in the backyard, a nice room for massage therapists and energy workers to rent out space to practice their art, perhaps a place for people to create physical art (paintings/metal work/drawing/etc.) a place for a café where we served food which we grew in our garden.
This place, in my vision, was mine. I thought that I was going to be the proprietress of this place, along with Jerrod as my side-kick/co-conspirator (and maybe that vision still exists in my heart somewhere.) I thought that he had to go to yoga teacher training and complete some part of his own journey before we could start making this vision come to fruition...
But in fact this place is already in existence. It is happening now and there is an amazing woman who is currently creating a space with this very vision in mind...It's called Your Sacred Space.
And there are other body workers in this community with similar visions, and it's all rolling into place.
It’s kind of amazing, really. That we all feel this pull at the same time, to create our work together, to help people by sharing our gifts, to allow people to learn more deeply about themselves, to heal, to tap into their Zen.
I saw a quote that resonated with me last night when I was reading the Tao Te Ching. I happened to pick the book up off our bookshelf (I didn’t even know we owned it) after I missed my yoga class due to some unforeseen circumstances that were created by my own carelessness (locked my keys in the car.)
This passage says that in the Tao, there is this concept called “doing-non-doing,” in which people learn to get back to their source, the source of all things, and who we truly are. This practice is the essence of one of the types of Zen Buddhist meditation (Vipassana, or Insight Meditation.)
“Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.
He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire,
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
The Master gives herself up
To whatever the moment brings…
[She has] no illusions in her mind,
No resistance in her body.
She doesn’t think about her actions;
They flow from the core of her being.
She holds nothing back from life…”
But perhaps my favorite quote is this:
“In the pursuit of knowledge,
every day something is added.
In the practice of the Tao,
every day something is dropped.
Less and less do you need to force things,
Until finally you arrive at non-action.
When nothing is done, nothing can be left undone.
True mastery can be gained
By letting things go their own way.
It can’t be gained by interfering.
Open yourself to the Tao,
Then trust your natural responses;
And everything will fall into place.”
Everything is falling into place, I trust it.
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