For those who are curious about this reference in classes--here is tons of info mostly at the bottom...Pretty interesting stuff.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
The beauty of balance
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one” ~ Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi
Our practice can serve as a fertile learning ground to explore the depth of opposites within us. Rather than seeking the right way of being we can expand into the fullness of our BEING by touching the possibility of every movement, breath, feeling, experience and find the balance within the full range of expression.
So often we can get stuck in patterns and habits and beliefs of right and wrong as well as judgements about pleasure and pain that we don't open fully to what is, yet alone what could be. It's like we are being held prisoner from potentialities and worlds within us that have yet to be discovered all because we afraid to touch the hidden places within us.
If we let ourselves touch both end of the poles of sensation, feeling, thoughts, everything--then we KNOW what it is we are. We open to expansion--we open up to flight. Notice this week when you get turned from one "feeling" to the next if you resist and can you open to the path and let both your wings be born from experience so that your flight and your journey this week is one rich with depth, integrity, and fullness.
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