Wanderings' Wanderings

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Tibetan names of god

(To be read with a very open mind.)

It was the middle of the night when this particular call came.  I had more or less given up on the concept of meditating everyday at the same time for the same amount of time.  Either I am just not as disciplined as others or I am not programmed that way.  I’ve found that for me personally I am more or less called to the need to meditate.  It can be at any time, night or day, and when it comes, I find time to still myself as soon as possible.

That particular night I had been tossing and turning, trying to still my mind enough to slip into the sweet ecstasy of sleep and letting go of the world around me so I could be refreshed the next morning with no knowledge what-so-ever of the mental events of the night.  That one particular night, sleep simply was not an option.

As I lumbered out of bed still lost in the fog of sleep, “It” suddenly hit me, not the cedar chest at the end of the bed, but the need to go into my own thoughts and my own mind to find what was making me restless.  I was experiencing a call to meditation.

As I began searching for the seed which had suddenly sprouted in my mind, I began seeing a tree, with exposed roots as if it was hanging in mid air, floating in front of me, beckoning me.  As I approached I noticed there was a pool of water several feet beneath the roots of the tree, and above it was another pool of water.  I have come to understand that to me, water is an expression of life as is a tree, so the thought running through my mind was, “hmm… life giving life to life.”

As my meditation was coming to an end, I heard a voice as clear and sound as if someone was standing right next to me.  It stated without pause or hesitation, “I am the creator of all, but I was created by all that has ever been, or will ever be.”  My eyes flew open and the meditation ended.  It was unusual for me to hear a voice during a meditation and was rather unnerving.   I tried to convincing myself I fell asleep and it was all just a dream.  But as I do with most of my discovery meditations I wrote it all down for later processing.

The next day I couldn’t get the thought out of my mind.  I couldn’t stop thinking.  Perhaps I’d been too focused on my work and needed a break, or maybe I was just having an energy-worker crisis and needed to lay off being a practitioner for a while.  No matter what I thought though, that one phrase kept nagging at me, but I just couldn’t get over the paradox of life giving life to life.  In my mind there had to be a beginning and an end.

At one point I came to a sort of understanding of my meditation.  I thought that since it is a paradox, it had to be true, but how can such a thing be true.  I seemed to be fighting the concept that God could be something which was itself created.  “Whoa! Where did that come from?”, I thought. Up until that very moment, I had not equated the quote with the God, but suddenly it was there; the carrot at the end of the stick leading the horse to water.  Everything created that which creates everything.  It’s so simple and so perfect that I just couldn’t get over the fact that it was true.

out of time

This seemingly contradictory thought had a purpose which struck at the very core of my being.  How do we know for a fact God exists?  We can never truly know a thing despite what many “faithful” people claim.  There is simply no way to know, however, we take on faith, or we trust that a supernatural being exists and created everything we know.  What this meditation was doing for me was connecting another dot I hadn’t thought of before.  What if the God concept was the very same thing as the energy concept?  What if there was no difference between the Universal Light Force (Energy) and God?  Scientifically we know energy can neither be created nor destroyed.  We know we are all bound together with everything in our known Universe and that there is a force which permeates everything around us and connects us one to another with our surroundings and all of existence.

Since I am unwilling to give up my belief in the Divine, then it stands to reason, for me anyway, that the very energy I work with day in and day out IS the Divine in which I believe since it has existed, and continues to exist beyond time, and without limit.

When I work with energy through Reiki, Intuitive Energywork, Thought Work, or any of the other myriads of methodologies and modalities, I am in essence working with the Divine: I am touching the Divinity of being within each and every one of my clients.  When seen in that light or from that perspective then each and every interaction with my clients becomes a sacred event where trust and fellowship are shared without exchanging a single word, and where creation and healing are experienced with every breath.

Who is to say whether or not we each experience the Divine presence through our clients?  Perhaps that is the very lesson we are on this earth to learn: to experience the Divinity of individual being through those around us, and to see we are all equal, and as such, equally capable of carrying the Divinity of being within ourselves.

The next time you reach out to your client for Massage, Energywork, or other Bodywork, realize you are communing with a created, and creator being.

May The Light Of All Shine With Each Of You!

K

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