Musing…
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
The power of pure energy is incomprehensible. Metaphors can perhaps help us grasp the immensity of creative energy – its essence is pure energy. We see this life energy in all forms in our world, and we experience this life energy in our own being. We hold and are this essence – it is like lightning in a bottle – we are like a wave in the ocean.
Kate’s Turn:
Every morning in the shower, I sing a song that my friend composed about the river of life – how it carries us and we also carry it, that essence, that pure energy I wrote about earlier, referring to it as heartlight. Thousands of miracles in each moment, expressed in the brilliance and reliability and precision of nature – creating beauty, giving freely – it is inexhaustible – this is how I understand the river of life. It flows around me and through me. So my song, each breath, is an expression of my connection to it. We share this nature and all forms are varied in its expression. We began as a tiny seed, and are generated out of the nature of our own being: light, expanding without end. Our nature is expressed in the intelligence of our body to grow, heal, and expand - endless giving when you think about it. All of us are expressing our nature and are a part of the web of life. Our form is the expression of this essence, which also happens to be our true nature. Mind-boggling, miraculous and natural simultaneously!
Every morning in the shower, I sing a song that my friend composed about the river of life – how it carries us and we also carry it, that essence, that pure energy I wrote about earlier, referring to it as heartlight. Thousands of miracles in each moment, expressed in the brilliance and reliability and precision of nature – creating beauty, giving freely – it is inexhaustible – this is how I understand the river of life. It flows around me and through me. So my song, each breath, is an expression of my connection to it. We share this nature and all forms are varied in its expression. We began as a tiny seed, and are generated out of the nature of our own being: light, expanding without end. Our nature is expressed in the intelligence of our body to grow, heal, and expand - endless giving when you think about it. All of us are expressing our nature and are a part of the web of life. Our form is the expression of this essence, which also happens to be our true nature. Mind-boggling, miraculous and natural simultaneously!
An image I use to connect with this essence is a drop of water in the ocean. When it takes form in a wave, it is both the form and also part of the whole. And eventually the form will return to essence. It is both a wave and water. My morning practice of Ocean Wave Qigong reminds me of this wonder: I am the essence of pure energy, creativity – and I express pure energy, creativity in Kate-form.
Get Fired Up:
How can you connect to this pure energy that is both
something greater than you and your
nature? What metaphor helps you both
be and express this essence of
creativity? A grain of sand in a
desert? A breath of air in the
trade winds? A sunbeam?
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