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24.01.2022 In speaking recently with a friend, I was reminded of the great bias in our culture toward the light and away from the darkness. When we meet with someone who i...s down, feeling hopeless, empty, or otherwise not beaming and joyful, we can become quickly convinced that something is wrong, that they are broken, and that we must act urgently to fix them. We scramble to put them back together, to remind them of all the gifts in their life, impart spiritual techniques and philosophies to them, suggesting that they just focus on the positive, letting them know that everything will be better soon, and that it will all turn out okay. It is so natural to want to help another and to lessen their suffering and pain. There is nothing wrong with this intention and with employing whatever skillful means we have to help, to bring relief. But we might also see the subtle aggression in this, this insistence that they come out of their immediate experience and into the one we believe they should be having instead. We can start to see how much of this fixing activity arises out of the disconnection with that which remains unmetabolized within us. It is possible the kindest thing we can offer our suffering friend is to sit in the darkness with them holding their hand and staying so close removing the burden that they change, transform, feel better, or heal in order for us to stay near. As we turn to embrace our own unmet sadness, grief, and despair, we remove the projection of our unlived lives from them. We lift the weight that they take care of our unresolved anxiety for us. As we learn to trust and to rest in the wisdom-field of our present, embodied experience, we see that love is a movement of the totality. It is whole, never partial, and is raging and alive even in the darkness. In the core of the fire, the sadness, the grief, and the despair is something very real, breaking through the dream of partiality. But what this is may never support our cultural and spiritual fantasies of a life of invulnerability. Here, you are being shown that the wild, untamed, creative movement of love will never conform to your hopes and fears, and that things are unlikely to ever turn out the way you thought they would. This is not evidence that something has gone wrong, but of how alive and unprecedented you are. From the perspective of this radical sort of wholeness, every experience is beheld as utterly valid, totally workable, and an expression of the path itself. Here there is no obstacle. From the center of your being, it is seen that life is not only the joy and the sweetness, but at times will arrive raging as the darkness, in order to reorder your world and to remind you or something you have lost contact with. In this surging of your inner family, the true nature of your experience will be revealed, and the portals to presence will be shown as they are... as infinite. May you stay close to your suffering and the suffering of others, careful not to cut it too quickly, curious and available to the wisdom as it unfolds in unexpected ways. Open your heart to the golden, full-spectrum nature of love and the jewels hidden in the dark before you discard them, and finally see what it is that they have to say.
23.01.2022 Tuesday 10th December will be the last meditation class for the decade - I’m finishing before the silly season this year.
20.01.2022 Twa Meva! Namaste Full Moon July 5th.
19.01.2022 Happy New Year to everyone who shared meditation space with me during 2019. Love and Peace to you all. Namaste, Charlene
13.01.2022 Brilliant idea!
07.01.2022 Lest we forget. Il Silenzio on Native American Flute.
06.01.2022 Happy Holy-days, everyone! Someone just sent us this hilarious poem by Matt Kahn. Enjoy! ... A (Spiritual) Night Before Christmas 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the home All chakras were spinning and adorned with an OM All stockings were hung on the chimney with care As intentions went out with heartfelt prayer When out on the lawn arose such a clatter And so I perceived, an illusion of matter When what to my wondering eyes should appear Archangels and Mastersascension is near In timeless presence, through my windowpane It was Michael, Buddha, and St. Germaine They asked for forgiveness for causing me fright And held space for my process as I merged into light We honored all the corners and took time just to be Then gave me a mantra to repeat after me I unwrapped a CDit was Deva Premal I’ve been so loving, are you sure that’s all? They honored my presence and proclaimed me the best And as for more gifts, please empath the rest What a cruel joke, my ego appealed As I loved all the feelings that came to be healed I’m not one to blame, but please tell me Lord Where did my gifts go that you can afford As the masters dissolved and left in a flash Leaving nothing behind, not even some cash Then in front of my face, I saw so clear It was Santa, his sleigh, and eight reindeer They didn’t even stop, just continued their flight Merry Christmas inner child, it just wasn’t your night. Many blessings of laughter. Happy Holy-days!! photo by Pavel Tokarev (St Petersburg).
