Meditation Cafe: Finding Steadiness In An Exploding World

When the world is exploding around us, how do we remain steady amongst the onslaught of worries and fears that inevitably arise in such times of difficult truths emerging, skeletons being revealed in previously locked closets and wars raging.

One thing’s for sure, what is happening in the wider world (macrocosm) is also happening inside us (microcosm). How we meet both inner and outer determines whether or not our experience is steady or chaotic. It is likely to be at times, both.

Fear and Love both have the potential to create wild fires. Both carry the forces of destruction and creation, yet fear is a door to Love if you know how to turn the key. Love brings our deepest fears to the surface, the two exist in an inseparable dance of polarity. In linear thought, one is more desirable than the other. In holistic thought they are both serving to bring us into a state of wholeness, a Universal Love that beholds it all.

Without conscious awareness, fear becomes a fire that destroys hope. It ignites panic; blinds us and binds us in a fiery hell of our own making. It leaves us feeling helpless.

We are in the Chinese year of the fire horse. To ride this horse to liberation you are going to have to meet your fears, learn to temper your fire, to burn up that which is false, to release identities that hold you in a shape that is not of your true Nature. Love is the field in which the fire horse runs free.

Love destroys fear, though it’s more a process of deconstruction, a de-conditioning or in Shamanic terms, dis-creation. Love dissolves the “con”, the lies we tell ourselves and the lies others tell us. Love ignites the potential for transmutation as fear becomes the tinder Love uses to light up the path towards liberation.

When we fully understand this as a lived experience, it becomes easier to meet our fears with Love. It is in this space of meeting ourselves with compassion that we find our steadiness.

Rumi’s poem “The Guest House” describes this perfectly:

This being human is a guest house. 
Every morning a new arrival
A joy, a depression, a meanness 
Some momentary awareness 
Comes as an unexpected visitor
Welcome and entertain them all! 

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows
Who violently sweep your house 
E mpty of its furniture
Still treat each guest honourably
 He may be clearing you out 
For some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice
Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes
Because each has been sent 
As a guide from beyond.

RUMI

Meditation Cafe

Join me Sundays 8pm for Meditation Cafe. Tonight we find steadiness through Heart Words Meditation practice. Into the Heart we go to practice meeting ourselves (and our guests invited or otherwise!), in whatever way we land on our Meditation seat.

We may not have had a reliable and consistent foundation of unconditional love mirrored to us as a child, yet in the Silence we can access a Source of Love that is unchanging, consistent and stable, that we can learn to rely on, that holds us steady through the trials of life. As a child tempered in the fires of chaos from an early age, I share with you from the Wisdom of lived experience, as one not afraid to step into the fire of uncomfortableness to reveal the Truth. Meet me in the Silence as we tend to our Divine Spark, the Source of Universal Love that is so needed in these tumultuous times. Together we can keep the flame of Love alive.

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