quote from Martha Beck

[Guest guest]

Thanks Dharam for the quote from Martha Beck. It is powerful.

 

It brings lots of thoughts in my mind.

 

 

 

For instance the issue of raising the Kundalini energy.

 

 

 

What Martha talks about is the best way to raise the Kundalini energy. That

quote from Audre Lorde: "When I

dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then

it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

 

What an insight! Something to be ponder on and lived by every moment of

one's life!

 

Also what comes to mind is the book Power vs Force by David R. Hawkins,

M.D., Ph.D. where he discusses how our societies work from a point of view

of solving problems using force instead of power and how we have a choice.

That very same power Audre Lorde refers to in that quote I just mentioned.

One useful aspect of David Hawkins' book is that he places our spiritual

evolution on a log scale from 0 to 1000 with descriptive words associated

with various levels on the scale, words we can relate to --- from the lower

end of the scale to the higher --- shame (20), guilt (30), apathy (50),

grief (75), fear (100), desire (125), anger (150), pride (175), courage

(200), neutrality (250), willingness (310), acceptance (350), reason

(related to wisdom) (400), love (unconditional) (500), joy (540), peace

(600) and enlightenment (700-1000).

 

I am going in this kind of detail to show the work ahead. Raising our

Kundalini energy includes moving from the lower end of this scale to the

higher. It takes time. It is important not to skip steps as they are each as

important as the next. There is no shame in being at the lower end! We have

things to learn intimately and integrate thoroughly before we can operate

from them at will. No step is benign!

Can anyone imagine skipping learning about shame, guilt, apathy etc and

going straight to love, joy and peace? Then someone comes along our way who

is struck with shame and guilt. Then what do I do with that person if I

don't know from experience about his/her experience? What can I do with my

love or my joy and/or my peace? "Here," I could only say "just feel the

love! It's available in the light, in the fragrance of the flowers, in the

giggles of a child, in the." I would be interrupted with something like:

"You don't understand me!" And they would be right. They'd be total

strangers!

 

So I encourage everyone, to refrain from feeling bad for your experiences

and instead remember that it is just a learning experience! It is just a

learning experience so we can help each other out!

 

All the discussions we have had about addictions. addictions fit somewhere

on this scale. sex for instance. it really is a call to move to your heart.

transform it into love. we apparently can't escape the lust. but we have a

choice to indulge in sex or to transform it into love. it just starts with

the awareness of the goal we choose to gift ourselves with. When I choose

love over lust, I don't ignore lust and beat myself up over it. What an

opportunity! I remember love and use the lustful energy to feed my love.

There's a choice to say goodbye to the attractive feelings of lust (perhaps

sadness and tears comes with that) and gratefulness for recognizing that I

choose love. It takes as long as it takes. Yoga helps! For sometime we might

even believe that as we indulge in sex we are really sharing the love, we

are really in the love. but that's not possible. We can only go in the love

first (leaving lust behind) and then re-experience sex from a totally new

perspective!

 

Blessings on everyone's journeys!

Awtar Singh

Rochester, NY