Posts tagged ‘comradeship’

Nov 6

Immortal Bliss

Hello 🙂

How are you?

I must say that I was shocked, devastated and traumatised by the result of the U.S. election today and the beginning of Trump’s new presidency. At first, I simply couldn’t take it in – I was in shock. I even felt like pinching myself several times today, to see if it was real or just a very bad dream from which I would wake sweating and terrified, telling myself, “It’s just a dream, it’s just a dream.” Eventually, I took to the meditation cushion. I sat there talking and crying to Amma. What was revealed (beyond the mind) that it all honestly triggered for me, was deep loneliness and the excruciating pain of that inside. The only thing to do was my spiritual practice, so I got on with it. To my genuine astonishment, doing the 108 Names and the 1000 Names completely shifted things. I do not mean this as a spiritual bypass in any way. Through the tears and pain and including those too, I suddenly saw in a flash a part of the translation of one of the 108 Names : “…Immortal Bliss…” It was like the Divine had ‘planted it’ there, or magnetised my eyes to it. I was captivated… It occurred to me where life is going. Where we are likely to end up sooner or later. It totally redirected my attention and awareness. In a sense it was a remembering and in a sense it was a forgetting. Do you know what I mean?

Perhaps another way of putting it, or something closely related, is in this note from Amma :-

If you are or have been struggling like I was, I strongly suggest you stick to your practices and lean into them even more. This is the time for rituals, for chanting, for meditation, for singing, for all the good stuff. What else is truly going to help us now? Not endless debate and not social media. The only other thing I would suggest for supporting and nourishing yourself at this time is sangha (community). One of you actually sent me a very beautiful quote about that earlier this week :-

“Having thus reflected, Ananda went to see the Buddha, and after saluting him told the Buddha what he thought, namely that spiritual friendship was half of the holy life. The Buddha disagreed. Spiritual friendship, companionship, or comradeship was not half of the holy life, but the whole of it, he told Ananda.”

The next Free Online Group Healing is this Friday 8th November @ 1pm London time. If you feel drawn to do so, please let your friends / fam / etc. know by sharing this link with them.

Please book your place if you can remain on Zoom for the duration (1hr) in a quiet space free from distractions. Thank you 🙏

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This weekend, it is the EarthShift 🙂 If you have taken the Foundational class in Vortex Healing, you are eligible to join and it is free. Please contact me if you need details on how to do this. If you will not be in class, I hope you can rest assured that this is yet more evidence of the Divine action happening in the world and that everyone in the human race will be positively impacted by. It may be that Ric Weinman shifts the intention a little (considering what has happened today), or it may be that we continue with clearing a spot in the genetic group psyche for survival power. Let’s see what the Divine has in store. I am excited 🙂 Especially right now, when this is more needed than ever before. Every person in the world will benefit from this work and so will the Earth itself, Gaia and the universe – all will receive healing. Somehow, I am reminded here of Adyashanti’s words and the place we long for within : the silent abyss beyond all knowing.