Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Reflections on the flow

How does life flow so gracefully and move so effortlessly?
How does grass grow, even through cracks? How do rivers cut across the earth, finding their way through crevices?
How does the heart beat, blood flow through our veins, our body.. how do organs cooperate and work in perfect synch?
Just like nature, let go... ease your struggles and trust.
Intelligence, far more intelligent than this mind guides the universe. In Hinduism, it is said that we are not the "doers".
This is what Jesus meant when he said: “The Father, that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works.” Performing the right action, to the best of one's ability, and then surrendering to the source. This is not giving up, but the ultimate trust that source will deliver what is best for you.

Verse 29 from the TAO TE CHING:

"Some think they can control what goes on.
I don't think anyone can.
The flow is sacred, digests
all volition: observe it
perturb it, try to hold it
lose it.

So sometimes ahead and sometimes behind,
sometimes hot and sometimes cold,
sometimes strong and sometimes weak,
sometimes on top of it, sometimes under.

So don't strain, spend too much, be smug."

Monday, May 4, 2009

Take command of your life.

Take command of your life. Refuse to put yourself on an assembly line, refuse to give away your power. We all have an inner guidance - we just need to activate it.

Often we look outside of ourselves, muting our inner wisdom and intelligence that knows what to do. We look outside for a fix, for cures, when our inner healing system is already inbuilt. We have allowed ourselves for too long to surrender to the world "norms" of what is right or wrong. Sadly, we have given away our internal power, not trusting our inner wisdom. There is a saying: "If we don't go within, we go without."

Trust your intuition and inner wisdom. The old ways of living is changing. There is a gradual but certain shift taking place. Let us regain our independence and trust our inner spiritual power.

The Divine Unstruck Sound - The Syllable: OM ॐ

The Gospel according to St John: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." Almost all religions refer to the "Word" as the beginning of creation. In physics, vibration is the element from which everything manifests. The entire universe is made of pulsating vibrating energy which is represented by Om.

The unstruck sound, Om or Aum represents the creative power of creation, the Logos, the divine Word. It is the primordial energy that forms and sustains the universe, the unmanifest made manifest. In Hinduism, Aum or Om is a sacred symbol and sound, uttered at the beginning and end of any prayer.

Aum Shanti: Om Peace.

Namaste!

Namaste: "The Divine within me recognizes and honors the Divine within you".

Namaste is an ancient Sanskrit understanding that says, "I respect the place in you that is of love, of truth and of Light. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me then we are one."

What a lovely way to greet a person! Acknowledging the divine essence in another as the same divine essence in you. When one greets another in this manner there is instant awareness and mutual respect cultivated for the other. Imagine a world where everyone recognizes the same divine essence within all. There would be more peace and love in the planet.

The Microcosm within the Macrocosm

As Deepak Chopra states:
As is the atom, so is the universe.
As in the microcosm so is the macrocosm.
As above so below.
As is in the human body, so it is in the cosmic body.
As is in the human mind, so it is in the cosmic mind.

And Madame Bavatsky from The Secret Doctrine states:
As above so it is below, as in heaven so on earth;
and man - the microcosm and miniature copy of the macrocosm -
is the living witness to this Universal Law and to the mode of its action".

The outer world is a macrocosm of the inner world - the microcosm. Yet this is infinitely more complex than the physical universe and it vibrates at a higher rate.

Jesus said: "The kingdom of God is within you." The Bible says that we were created “in the image of God” (Genesis 1:27). We were created “like” God. Essentially, what this means is that man is a reflection of God. We are a miniature version of the universe. Within this human body lies the microcosm of the entire universe.

The microcosm (internal) is within the macrocosm (external). We are gods within God.