Musings
Reflections on spiritual cultivation
Reflections on cultivation
I continuously return to the remembrance of the teachings in the classics:
Dao
Yin and Yang
Keep a calendar
These 3 simple steps.
In preparing to give a talk titled “You are the Medicine.” I was challenged by a dear friend as to what is medicine.
And why do we need healing. Are we not already whole?
For him medicine meant a substance to ingest. And it essential to his practices that these medicines are sacred.
What I mean by I am the medicine- is informed by Daoist thought. By what Sabine Wilms translates of Sun Si Miao to be called virtue power.
That is to say that my personal spiritual cultivation, the way I lived my life, purify body speech mind, accumulate merit and dedicate it to ehe benefit of all- the vibration that I carry living in unconditional love- this love, energy qi- I am using these terms fairly interchangeably here- this is the medicine.
Everything that is needed is within. To shine that light of truth bak to one another is good medicine.
To hold space with non judgement, with unconditional love, grace and ease. With boundaries as love.
Authentic, spontaneous, showing up in each moment as best I can, flowing with the circumstances of what arises. Ziran.
By alchemizing emotions- transmuting anger into forgiveness, grief into acceptance, worry into trust, benevolent, property, humility, compassion… who I am, my character, my essence, my virtue power expands. I am more resilient, patient, strong, kind. This is what I think of when I say I am the medicine.
Resting into heart-cohernece- my PNS at ease and regulated- sending out a frequency of love. This can sync us with another- through he electro-magnetic field of our hearts. Literally. We can co regulate. My serenity, equanimity has an effect on you.
My cultivation of love-light can bathe my beingness. And yours. W can remind each other, remember together that which we forgot from the stories of childhood, the traumas of adolescence, that said we were not enough. We are perfect exactly as we are- simply because w exist; because we are here now.
Yin-Yang
Stillness-Movement
A time and season for everything
A gorgeous slide deck with beautiful images highlighting ancient wisdom guiding the viewer through the Earth element as seen from the perspective of Chinese Medicine.