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~Fix All
of
Your Attention upon the One True Source of Being~
All Else
is Entanglement
~ Hindu teaching
"That which you seek, is not outside of
you!
'Healing' means 'wholeness.'
'Wholeness' means 'holiness.'
(see Webster's Dictionary, root meanings.)
To heal is to find one's wholeness.
To find one's wholeness, is to find one's holiness."
~ Zacciah Blackburn
As
Buddha said: “What you are is what you have been, what you will be is
what you do now.”
Padmasambhava went further: “If you want to know your
past life, look into your present condition;
if you want to know your
future life, look at your present actions.”
--SOGYAL RINPOCHE
As
long as there is an ego, there are demons.
When
there is no more ego, There are no more demons either!
--Machig Labdrön (Tibetan Nun)
Whatever
you do, don’t shut off your pain; accept your pain and remain
vulnerable. However desperate you become,
accept your pain as it is,
because it is in fact trying to hand you a priceless gift:
the chance
of discovering, through spiritual practice, what lies behind sorrow.
“Grief,”
Rumi wrote, “can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart
open through everything,
your pain can become your greatest ally in
your life’s search for love and wisdom.”
SOGYAL RINPOCHE
"We can look at the destitution
around us and chastise others or live in hopelessness,
or we can fix
our attention upon the one true source of being,
and realize only we
can bring about the change we seek, by embodying it, ourselves."
~ Zacciah
The
path to becoming a healer, is the path to our own healing.
--Zacciah
As long as we imagine negativity in the world, there shall be....
--Zacciah
The
teachings tell us what it is we need to realize, but we also have to go
on our own journey, in order to come to a personal realization.
That
journey may take us through suffering, difficulties, and doubts of all
kinds, but they will become our greatest teachers.
Through them we will
learn the humility to recognize our limitations, and through them we
will discover the inner strength and fearlessness
we need to emerge
from our old habits and set patterns, and surrender into the vaster
vision of real freedom offered by the spiritual teachings.
SOGYAL RINPOCHE
Although
your external circumstances may vary, your practice of exchanging
yourself for others should not be dependent on that.
It is very
simple: if your situation is right, breathe that out to the world; if
your situation is wrong, breathe that in, taking it on yourself.
CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE
"Growth is not when
you don't mess up again. It's when you mess up at a higher level."
-- Marianne Williamson
When
we realize the unending natural mind is the very nature of the Lama,
Then there is no need for attached, grasping, or weeping prayers or
artificial complaints,
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
We obtain the blessing of aimless self-liberation of whatever arises.
--DUDJOM
RINPOCHE
Lifetimes
of ignorance have brought us to identify the whole of our being with
ego.
Its greatest triumph is to inveigle us into believing its best
interests are our best interests, and even into identifying our very
survival with its own.
This is a savage irony, considering that ego and
its grasping are at the root of all our suffering.
Yet,
ego is so terribly convincing, and we have been its dupe for so long,
that the thought that we might ever become egoless terrifies us.
To be
egoless, ego whispers to us, is to lose all the rich romance of being
human, to be reduced to a colorless robot or a brain-dead vegetable.
-- SOGYAL RINPOCHE
As long as there is an ego, there are demons.
When
there is no more ego, There are no more demons either! --Machig
Labdrön
Die to the
Living Consciousness.
-- Hat'or, via Zacciah's inner guides
establishing guidance upon the path to full awakening
You
just don't get it. You could have all the power in the world.
All
you have to do is die.
-- Jesus, in
Jesus Christ Superstar
speaking to his disciples
(not an exact quote, but this is the gist of it!)
Taking
impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of
grasping,
from our flawed and destructive view of permanence, from the
false passion for security on which we have built everything.
Slowly it
dawns on us that all the heartache we have been through from grasping
at the ungraspable was, in the deepest sense, unnecessary...
It
may take a long time for the extent of our foolishness to sink in, but
the more we reflect, the more we develop the view of letting go.
It is
then that a complete shift takes place in our way of looking at
everything.
-- SOGYAL RINPOCHE
From the
Dhammapada (Buddha's sacred teachings)
One is not an Elder because one's head is gray. Many are ripe in
years, but called elder for nothing.
The one embodying truth and Dharma,
harmlessness, restraint, and commitment, who is steadfast and
undefiled, this one is called an Elder.
Though someone's face is handsome,
and his words flow easily, do not consider him a man of distinction if
he is jealous, mean, and brutish.
Those whom have destroyed these
traits, uprooted them and thrown them out--they are the faultless and
wise. These are the ones of distinction.
A monk is called a man of peace, "One
Who Cultivates Virtue," because he quiets all wrong-doing, both gross
and subtle.
Whoever has gone beyond good and
evil, but acts with perfect purity while passing through the world,
such a one is called a monk.
--Endowed with the Dharma, the Dhammapada
The gifts of the Four
Directions
Many of us feel the
need
for such healing at this time within ourselves, within each other,
within
the Planet. Healing requires our intentional participation and
commitment
to the path of Healing.
We have found in our
work,
these gifts, which create in the archetypal realm, four elements of
Healing,
composing a never ending circle/spiral of healing, within us, for each
other, within the Planet:
Forgiveness creates Healing
Healing creates Gratitude
Gratitude creates
Compassion
Compassion creates
Forgiveness
-- Zacciah
Whatever
thoughts and emotions arise in meditation, allow them to rise and
settle, like the waves in the ocean.
Whatever you find yourself
thinking, let that thought rise and settle, without any constraint.
Don’t grasp at it, feed it, or indulge it, don’t cling to it, and don’t
try to solidify it. Neither follow thoughts nor invite them;
be like
the ocean looking at its own waves, or the sky gazing down on the
clouds that pass across it.
You
will soon find that thoughts are like the wind; they come and go.
The
secret is not to “think” about the thoughts but to allow them to flow
through your mind,
while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.
-- SOGYAL RINPOCHE
There is another Road
As our nation, and the
world,
contemplate recent events, let us contemplate, and hold close to us,
the
essence of compassion, reverence for, and the value of human
life.
While others may not act with these values, let us assure we do not
step
into the same loss of value in our own actions.
--Zacciah
I am loved, I am love
Hold this mantra in your
heart for several minutes a day, or have a friend repeat it "You are
loved,
you are love," for several minutes, moving about you, while you are
seated
comfortably, whispering it in your ear.
Or, whispering these four
phrases in random order, and with
random movements about you:
" '__your
name__'
is love,
" " is loved,
" " are love,
" " are loved."
( ------ exercise, courtesy of Tom Kenyon)
We beseech
you to step into your roles as spiritual masters.
A wondrous
world of new possibilities awaits you ~ the
Hathors (via Tom
Kenyon)
Sacred Spirit holds you
as
a most precious and dear soul, essential to the evolution of this Earth.
Stay in the Heart
Hold Gratitude
Holding a coherent state of reverence,
appreciation, gratitude, in the heart center, can move us beyond the
many
challenges and conflicts we may be faced with in life.
Thoughts
of the Solstice season:
Remember
the reflective nature of the season,
the
return of Light to the New Year. How can you help to restore
balance
and authenticity to the world this year?
We
wish our blessings upon you and those close to you.
Zacciah
Prayer of St.
Theresa
