FINDING HAPPINESS IN DARK TIMES #8
“The soul has no rainbow if the eyes have no tears.”
Native American saying
"Golden verses of Pythagoras speak of storms coming and going. The wise person like the good sailor knows how to rid them. Know your weaknesses and inclinations that you can temper them with your strength." Anonymous
Things in the past may have been even worse than they are now.
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So how do we turn darkness into light.
Some wisdoms from the ancients and thoughts:
Your teaching is in the shadow of your experience.
The Ancestors
"The cave you fear to entry holds the treasure you seek."
Joseph Campbell
Take our suffering and make something useful out of it. Allow the Phoenix to raise out of the ashes around us.
Its not what happens to us but what we do with ...
Grief and Sorrow
There is enough suffering we do not need to take on more.
Folks with the help of the media and movies are almost impelled into negativity because that is what attracts our attention the most. We need to stay with light, love and laughter as much as possible.
We should treat ourselves with compassion and forgiveness, and others as well. Self-recrimination and self-condemnation have no place if we are to maintain balance. Nor should we judge others for their imbalance by projecting our own onto them.
Trust in God and your guides who are the intermediaries between you and the Creator.
We are not just influences but recipients of influences from distant places and distant times. (Past life loved ones and guides.)
The Ancestors
"When I lose my way, God will come along the road & reach me. When I grope in the land of forgetfulness, God will remember me. When I no longer know who I am, God will call me by my name. When darkness is my only companion, memories & old prayers will be stars & in time or beyond it, someone will be sent, bringing a lamp."
Christine Fleming Heffner
But there is a caveat ...
It will be given to us according to the measure of our humility,
the measure of our love,
and the measure of our faith.
The power of prayer is greater that the power of prophesy (or the prognosis of the situation.) The Ancestors
Grief and sorrow give us the impetus to focus on the impermanence of all things, good and bad and that this too will pass.
Death might seem a strange subject to bring up when talking about remedies for darkness but it goes to the core of our fears.
"Death does not extinguish the light. It puts out the lamp because the dawn has come." R. Tagore
When we think of impermanence we should also meditate on death - our last and final journey.
Death should be a blissful experience if we are prepared and there has never been a better time to prepare. For those that are sick and ailing death is also a pleasant release from their suffering.
“When you were born, you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you are the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Buddhist teach that of all the meditations the one on death is the most powerful, yet most of us try not to think of it. For many, it is at best subconsciously, the ultimate fear.
The first noble truth of suffering of Buddhism is the truth of: Uncontrolled birth, sickness, aging and death.
The Zohar says we are living in only a 1% world - there is another 99% on the other side of the veil.
Everything that happens to us is a test of our spiritual metal. We should join the spiritual "special forces" and weather the storms of life so as to perfect our karma with humility, love and faith. In this way we have some control over how we pass over, which vibration we inherit and also our next incarnation and rebirth. We may also be able to approach sickness and aging as a test of our spiritual practice.
The question is are we ready and what does the karmic table we have prepared for ourselves look like?
Only the enlightened know how to live this life so they do not have to die again by karmically having to inherit another one. The Self-realized Buddhist will go to the Pure Land, others the Causal, the Kabbalist the Garden of Eden. We are all capable of reaching this vibration which will partly depend on how we have handled grief and sorrow. Everything we do is a test of our karma - how we handle the good and the bad, the sacred and the profane.
When we leave the planet we are only moving house, going out of one portal and through another. The key thing is that we cannot take anything with us. If we are "attached" it may change our vibrational passage and we could land up in the wrong place. Worst of all we could become earth bound, lost between the worlds, maybe not even knowing we are dead, thus sabotaging the next cycle of death and rebirth. A traumatic, confused death is another cause of getting stuck between the worlds. There has never been a better time to attend to our needs rather than our wants, to do a house cleaning and clear the decks of redundancy.
Before we reincarnate we come up before a spiritual tribunal who lovingly show us the errors of our ways. Our karma will determine which next life time we inherit. If we attend to our vibration with an ongoing spiritual practice we will cross the veil between the worlds happily, skillfully and smoothly, usually into the Astral realm - some into the Causal. There are countless levels of vibrational attainment.
"If you do not want to see the shadow turn your face into the sun.
No matter how long the night, the dawn is sure to come."
Indigenous wisdom
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