Change is Afoot!

Only someone who is very, very strong can be truly, tenderlysensitive.  How do we change the world?  It’s not going to happen over night but it must begin and it starts with the individual.  It begins with me.  This is why I practice; why I am devoted to my practice.  I have experienced its effects in my own life and as I continue to cultivate and stabilize this power, I want with all my heart, for all to heal, for the world to heal and expand.  We can no longer lean back and simply hope.  We must look forward and expand.  To do so, we must first look within to expand individual awareness.    

Profound transformative ordeals are stirring, individually and planet wide.  Some are beautiful and ease-full almost magical; others are quite painful but no less transformative.  This is the what the Śaiva Tantra tradition refers to playfully as the “maha-śakti house-cleaning service” at work removing the debris, the garbage of life.  It sounds good natured, and indeed is benevolent in intent, but without understanding can be torturous.  The daily practice of mediation is what supports and carries us through when we are making those big leaps in life.  Whether we like it or not, want it or not, change happens.  We are changing, the world is changing.  Participate.

What we need is the proper instruction and knowledge that supports not only practice, but the living of life  This is the crux of what is missing for so many, the theory that supports practice.  The recognition of what is occurring deep within, not just interesting in some philosophical manner, but the very creative impulse that feeds what shows up on the surface of life.

Poverty consciousness is not speaking of just the bank account.  There is a wealth of knowledge found within but we have forgotten its existence.  This is the wealth that supports the attainment of every sort.  Once this is recovered, we may entertain on a deep profound level how we apply and share our wealth of knowledge, wisdom, insight; our power and yes our material wealth too.  Skillfully life is fully lived.

Meditate, say the wise sages, a treasure is within.  Cultivate the wealth of consciousness from which all wealth arises. ​