All feelings are beautiful. Enjoy everything including the pain...
Michael A. Singer
As you know by now if you have read any of my entries before this one...the release of Samskara is' my thing' as a yogi and as a human being. I want nothing more in my life than to be free of all these blockages. I see that as the ultimate healing...the ultimate freedom. I truly know in some part of me that I do not quite understand that I have blocked the flow of something magnificent when I created this neurotic psyche I call "me". To protect this "me", I have stored and stuffed a lifetime of stuff within me that I did not want to experience. I also stored and clung to all that stuff whose nature I demanded would be all I experienced in this Life. All the while this Life goes on doing what it is doing and it does not even recognize this "me" and what it 'prefers', only who I really am. So man is there ever a lot of the unpreferred showing up, a lot of triggering of the stuff I stored inside, a lot of disturbance. Sigh!
So...my journey these days involves freeing the flow of energy inside me. Not so much because I want to feel the ultimate bliss of Sat Chit Ananda, but because I want to stop drowning in this eddy of swirling energy on the otherside of my blockages. It isn't fun smashing up against those rocks again and again and again. It isn't fun swallowing so much water and going down into the dark depths of this trapped energy again and again. I would just like to be floating serenely on the top of a gently flowing river, enjoying the sunshine on my face and teh feel of the breeze on my skin as I listen to he magic of bird song all around me. That is what I long for in my Life. .. to be able to enjoy it all , even the pain, without being pulled down by it.
What about you?
The Eddy
In the middle of the magnificent
river
flowing forward
on its predetermined journey,
back to the infinite Source
from which it came,
the Eddy forms.
It swirls and twirls, riveting
in
energetic, tormented circles
around and around,
its waves smashing up against
the boulders of
Samskara
that impede the mighty River's
flow.
All the while the rush of these
Holy Waters,
the trough and crests of these
mighty waves,
are being pulled by the Oceans’
powerful
but unseen force, forward.
This Force is strong and unrelenting,
stirring up the waters
collecting behind the impediment of
samskara.
When the stuffed and stored
debris of human preferring,
the boulders of human
resistance,
form the current of human selecting,
the water has no choice but to
spin
in a whirlpool of human
suffering.
Tangled up in all the other
floating things
the Eddy pulls toward it;
torn from its original trajectory,
splashing about in a desperate
attempt
to find something solid to hang
on to,
the drowning soul
swallows the waves of misguided
attempts
and sinks.
‘I’, the swimmer, gets pulled
down
by this vortex of trapped
energy,
down into the mirky depths
that build up and break down
behind the boulder of samskara,
while this Eddy claims all that
it can
to make it stronger.
Still, that force which moves the
river forward
is determined.
Beyond this Eddy…this tiny
disturbance
in the flow of universal Life,
exists the free- flowing Shakti.
Moving, in glorious sparkling persistence,
back to the Source from where it came,
the undisturbed River
flows with a message for all who
will listen:
Remove the debris, the boulders
of samskara,
and the Eddy will be no more.
The river and its swimmer will be
set free
and will, before long, be united with the Source
of everlasting peace.
© Dale-Lyn. July, 2024
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( July 14, 2024) Understanding Consciousness and Your Energy Flow. https://tou.org/talks/
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