Stand And Deliver

Spring is bursting into bloom, selfies are exposing lots of shiny teeth, tech-speed expands exponentially, and ‘excellence’ is more fabulous than ever. You want some of this?  Then dig deep, for a balancing polarity is necessary.  You want to fly higher, brighter, and lighter? You want to be the bud in full bloom?  Then strong, dark roots are the balance. With the velocity of not only technology, but of internal shifts, we need ways and means for feedback to hold a steady course. To this end, you may find yourself at the feet of a Zen Master.

Zen Masters are those beings, or events, that appear as hot spots of what we have rejected within ourselves, confronting us in the world.  Zen Masters are the catalysts for our garbage that’s been invisible. They are a broom sweeping up old trash for examination.  The Zen moment is when we face off with the most impossible, angry, ego-driven, driveling, feeble, oblique, unconscious person in the world; when our devil-self appears, formed from issues we’ve ignored.

Thank heaven for Zen Masters. They force us into rehearsal.  As Sandor McNab said, “Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.”  God knows we all wish to ignore our darkness, we hope to be accepted as bright and best as we may be, but in striving to shine, we think we can out-run our beasts. It may not be a bad thing if you’re 16. And it is a wonderful thing if shadow brings you home to inner self, to solitary reflection and facing fears. But if we are 40, and have turned away from our predators year after year~ those giant hooded cobras coiled within, then we retaliate, because we have not practiced. We have no idea we have choice, and we sound like whiny children because we do not yet see ourselves ripe for a ‘Zen moment.’ One of the gifts in dealing with our Zen Masters is we get to rehearse, we do the slow-hard work of holding up the mirror to see our fear and loathing in action.

Zen Masters wake us from our shadow, our stuff.  The more subtle and fascinating practice is recognizing when loved ones carry our shadow, and they always do.  The greater the need for trust, and acceptance, the more we have to lose if we don’t dance with the cobra within.  If we love, we have to stand and deliver.  We have to figure out ‘what’s mine,’ what’s theirs, and what do we create between us as a third body?  All too often, the catalyzing behavior belongs to us.  They are just being themselves.  This spring, let us bloom, let us set deep roots into dark earth, and show up for rehearsal.

To celebrate Wesak and the light of spirit spreading here on earth, on May 15 dailybreathjournal.com returns, re-ignited, re-formatted, re-invigorated.  A beautiful transformation by DMYStudio; Denise Young.    AND   Krishna’s Danc,e A new video, will premier on shaktidances.com.