Rose Heart of Humanity
When we identify ourselves primarily by our externals, we begin to loose contact with our soul voice and experience, and ultimately to the spiritual realities that exist behind all and everything.
There is no one group of human beings as defined by race or skin color, sexuality or gender, class or social status, who are purely evil. I find it an incredible turn of events that this kind of reality is being proliferated more and more widely, and that to say such a thing might at all be controversial. But in the world that we now live within, where up is down and down is up, this is controversial.
The one who seeks truth and beauty, and to know the living wisdom within our own sacred biology, understands this. It is the human spirit which forms and animates matter, it is the soul that speaks through our flesh and blood and bone, it is the human spirit who is beyond name and form and identification, an illuminated thread of a great divine tapestry where all life has a place at the table.
There are soul woundings and trauma that may be passed down through generations, but for the one who seeks true selfhood and realization, it is our own movement into free will and the indomitable human spirit which define the breadth of our experience. It is our journey into fuller sovereignty which creates the matrix within which we exist, and within which we emanate.
It is the attachment to our woundings that serve to enslave the human spirit, it is our refusal to assimilate the shadow nature which bind us to the smallest versions of ourselves, and it is the inability to recast the mythologies of our life story that serve to structure the prisons within which we continue to exist. These realities move far beyond the superficial identities which the modern American person now seeks to embody.
We have all, as human beings, known great suffering. This is part of the very nature of what it is to be alive. This suffering shapes and forms us, for better, or for ill. This suffering creates great adepts and heroes, and great ignorance and evil. How it is that we come to relate to our own personal suffering is that which actually defines us.
Do we allow this suffering to harden the edges of the human form, creating an impenetrable body of darkness, or do we allow it to move to soften us into the pure rose heart of illumination, where we come to know our greater existence and purpose as a part of a divine unfolding in the mystery that we are?
This is our great human choice.