Question – - empty yourself and you will be filled…

[Guest guest]

Hi chrism – you recently posted to the effect that, as part of the

awakening process you needed to empty yourself so that you could be

filled (I cannot find the specific post but the words keep coming back

to me). Part of me understands what you were saying in terms of the

surrender of the ego, old beliefs and material possessions, but

another part of me asks how do you effectively achieve that within a

westernized environment?

 

Responsibilities in daily life require certain norms that are based on

that formal learning, credibility based on proven achievements, some

trappings that accompany a given status in society. I fully

appreciate that in the spiritual context or on the ascension path

these are of no value whatsoever, and hence the emptying process to

free oneself of any prior concepts or limitations so as to allow full

receptivity for the `new' in every respect. How though does one best

go about effectively achieving the total emptying process while also

fulfilling those daily responsibilities in the family / society context?

 

In the same vein and in the context of the physical body, we have

collectively created the illusion within which we live in the physical

expression, whilst also existing in the other expressions. Within

that physical expression we have numerous needs – survival, belonging

etc that determine, to some extent, the way in which we behave in this

expression. How best do we `marry' the needs of the physical with the

other expressions within that illusion? How can we best `bridge' the

gap between expressions, or how can we change or recreate the illusion

in such a way that does away with the ugliness and evil that has been

created by man on this plane?

 

You have indicated that you have one foot on earth and the other in

heaven – do you see all the planes, all the expressions? If so is

there really a need for the physical expression? While the physical

represents a plane where we exercise choice and learn while proceeding

along that path of ascension, it also appears to be a particularly

limiting factor in going forward. Our higher selves already have that

knowledge that we are grappling to instill in the physical now – that

duplicity feels, on occasion, like we are trying to reinvent the wheel

so to speak – that emptying of oneself in order to receive the divine

aspect of our being with which are already one!

 

I have a feeling that you will say (quite correctly) that the answer

is within and, while I feel that I am, in fact, transforming from the

changes that have and continue to occur within, I have yet to find the

complete answer in my meditation and in my daily life. In a lighter

(and I guess physically limited) vein, being able to see and clearly

know the end objective would certainly make for easier planning in

going forward – rather like the little boy being able to quantify just

how much he must work and save to buy that toy of desire. Of course

once he has achieved that, and probably answering my questions, a new

need arises so as to make the process ongoing. lol – back to that

emptying process! Blessings - Jonathan

[Guest guest]

Hello Jonathan,

Yes it would be an easy response to merely state to

you " Look within and thou shalt know " . Yet even with that there are

many questions so let us begin at the basic paradigm.

 

The body is a necessary vessel. It is even as an egg is for the

development of an expression of life. Because we are tied to the

flesh for our initial expressive modalities does not reflect an

unchanging or un evolving method and methods of expressing inside of

this reality.

 

We grow and we change in order to grow for further change. We

continue along those paths until something of a different nature

causes us to grow in a different way. Kundalini is of a class of

experiences that cause a radical shift from our normal pathways of

learning.

 

" Naked into the Kundalini " - this article is about some of the

guiding principles and pre requisites of emergence into this radical

shift and transformation of our natures.

 

The Christ said " Come as a child " . And that does have a similar

meaning to what I am expressing. Come as a person of curiosity and

innocence and a zeal for learning is another way to put it and even

then this may not be as linear as we may require in our busy western

lifestyles.

 

I understand your question very clearly Jonathan. For I as well

struggled with these concepts though my teachers knew that my hold

on the western lifestyle was and is tenuous at best. So in that way

my surrender was easier.

 

You are being asked to " empty the vessel " this means to reclaim your

innocence. To empty out the burdens and responsibilities of life as

you have lived it. To cleanse yourself of the denials of life and

the anguish of decision. To release from your self the soil and pre-

conceptive arguments that make up a world devoid of authentic

experience and without a greed motivated understanding of a true

physical and spiritual threshold.

 

And still drive a car.

 

This is where I break from 99% of the Yogi's and Holy Kundalini

awakened individuals of the present time and the past ten thousand

years or so. They would go off into the forest and forsake the life

they had lived as successful business or professional people. They

would try to leave as much money as was required for the family to

live and off they go into the forest living for the search if the

Kundalini. This is an outer to inner approach that I feel is best

reversed.

 

That is what is given here.

 

I would have you drive that car in an Awakened Kundalini format.

 

Yes I have one foot on the earth and the other hand in heaven. This

merely describes the breadth of interaction not a limiting of

interaction. We are in the body (earth) and are of the spirit

(heaven). So let us live fully from it and as Kundalini is natural

to the body and the body was indeed designed to carry it and be

transformed by it let us rejoice in that transformation. Rejoice in

the unlimited qualities of the expanded expression.

 

We do this by shedding the clothing of our lifelong programming of

expectation and of our intellectual presumptions of what is real.

 

How can one run the business without these preconceptions you ask?

By allowing a higher truth to replace it. By " trusting " the inner

guidance to help with the tasking and the inner organization of what

is and isn't in appreciation of the decisions one makes within a

company. To allow the qualities of the safeties to begin to

influence the act of business. Being honest for instance. Having

integrity. Being tolerant. Being forgiving. Having patience etc.

 

Here is another pseudo biblical analogy:

The body is a vessel of water.

The water is our consciousness and our western lifestyle expression.

The water is thick with fear and doubts and impurities

The water is dirty

The vessel is therefore dirty

We must cleanse the water before we can bring the Kundalini into it.

We cleanse the vessel and we cleanse the water

We are then ready for the transformation into the wine by the

Kundalini.

 

Sometimes when we cleanse the vessel it must be emptied. Sometimes

the grime is so thick and so stuck to the sides that we must empty

the vessel and do a radical cleansing. This is what I am suggesting

Jonathan.

 

All of our facts and beliefs need to be dumped. All of our knowledge

and experience and understandings need to be put into the washer.

Not all at once! Give yourself some time. But do it. Clean it up!

While the washer is going we need to attend to the outer aspect of

the vessel. If the shape needs a new balance then that must be

taken. Programs must be received in order for that vessel to be

changed. Same with the strength and the ability to hold water i.e.

are there cracks in the glass? Patch them up.

 

We need to realign our vessel into a vessel that is open to a strong

transformation. So we do this while the washer is washing and

extricating the soils of our western existence BUT leaving those

qualities that are needed to survive albeit with some changes to

those as well.

 

Survival is needed. But there are many ways to survive even in the

western societies. It's in the " how " that we survive that can allow

us to learn about what is inside of our morality and what isn't.

This gives us a measuring device.

 

Because we empty the vessel doesn't mean that everything in it was

wrong or impure. Purity and impurity exist side by side in our

reality. A crystal can be found in the dirt. So the pure aspects

come back into the vessel as the wash cycle is completed. Remember

don't use any " Downey " . lol

 

What happens when we practice and I mean really practice, in real

time, the safeties is that we are washing the inner expressions.

When we do the Tibetans and the inner conditionings we are also

cleansing and re shaping the inner and outer expressions. We are

rebalancing and coming into a purity that is needed for the

Kundalini to infuse.

 

When we release ourselves of the burdens of only being able to

accept the scientific reality we are able to open to the stronger

spiritually energetic reality that provides the basis for scientific

measurements and existence.

 

When we let go of constrictive belief systems that put us into a

competition for truth with other people we begin to understand the

multiplicity of creation.

 

One can do these things and still drive the car. Or run the business

or ride the bus or eat in a restaurant. An organic free range

restaurant of course! -lol

 

One can do this and dress and feed the children and drive them to

school.

 

One can do these activities inside of the western environment.

 

The linear " how too " is what holds many people up with this

question. How do I do this? Start with the safeties and incorporate

them gradually into every aspect of your life. In the environment

that you find yourself in do your best to see an overlay of another

layer of reality that isn't the same as the first one.

The " safeties " reality. See where the similarities are and see where

they are different.

 

As you practice the safeties you can begin to develop the discerning

principles of connecting the dots between the two realities and

seeing a third one begin to form. Look at:

 

How do you use your knowledge? As a weapon of advancement? As a tool

of competition? As a vector of happiness? How do you use what you

know?

 

How do you show care and friendship? What qualities of love do you

hold dear and why?

 

What can you change right now that will allow you to stay in the

western environment and yet satisfy the qualities of the safeties?

 

What do you consider " impossible " and why do you have limits on

creation?

 

Ask yourself some of these questions and honestly answer them. Use

this as a way of recapitulation.

 

You will begin to see that it is how we treat each other that allows

the vessel to be cleared. You may see that it is the respect and

love we show for our fellow mortals and environment and all of

creation that allows us to come into balance. You may understand

that in order to change we must be willing to change and that when

change comes nothing is the same and yet the world is still

understandable. Consciousness shifts with change and is changed as

everything else changes.

 

Hopefully this is helpful to you Jonathan and anyone who reads it.

Let me know of any questions you may have as it pertains to your

individual journeys and I will do my best to assist you. -blessings

all! - chrism

 

 

 

, " jonrow_2914 "

<jrowland wrote:

>

> Hi chrism – you recently posted to the effect that, as part of the

> awakening process you needed to empty yourself so that you could be

> filled (I cannot find the specific post but the words keep coming

back

> to me).

[Guest guest]

Hi chrism - many thanks for your reply - it did provide the clarity I

was looking for and I enjoyed the washing machine analogy!

Undoubtedly, in part, I find that the more I change the more I yearn

to change and some times the answers don't come fast enough! blessings

- Jonathan

 

, " chrism "

<> wrote:

>

> Hello Jonathan,

> Yes it would be an easy response to merely state to

> you " Look within and thou shalt know " . Yet even with that there are

> many questions so let us begin at the basic paradigm.

>