Heartfelt Transformations

I receive many touching heart felt emails. I received one today from India and I want to share my answer with a larger audience today. This answer echos a few other posts I recently made.

Here are two common themes within mid life transformation.

First Common Truth:

A person in midlife transformation will feel isolated and alone.

The reason for this feeling of being isolated, alone: is that the mid life transformation is often the first time a person is "truly" and fully connected to themselves. But more importantly it's within a new awareness of what life means in personal terms.

This is a very very overpowering place to be.

Know when feeling in this manner.

You are not alone, many are experiencing the very same process and that countless others are in the same place you are.

Guides who teach from your heart rather than from some outside truth exist. But for each true guide, hundreds of other guides pushing "outside truths" also abound. The trouble when chasing outside truth is that people end up going many different religions or spiritual paths that makes this all the more confusing of a process. Discover that outside truth will not fully answer questions regarding personal truth.

• But it is OK to be "Alone" since this process is all about coming to terms with personal truth.

The Second Common Truth

The people who come to me, also often have a deep desire to reach out , to aid others and help people who are down in their luck. (this is also one of the reasons so many people are trying to help you with their "One" outside truth as I stated earlier)

But here is the secret that must be embraced:

No matter how many other people you are kind to, no matter how many people you might save or help discover "harmony" you will never discover balance, never resolve out your midlife transformation

• Until you balance it out by being kind to yourself in even terms.

So to seekers in Transformation I also make sure they discover this before they go out to help others

A simple truth of:

• Be kind to yourself also.

Namaste

Morning

It's a fresh morning.

Waking up into: blue sky, sun

Waking up into: chores, commitments from the past that linger into the now.

Waking up into: sending out awareness. Feeling my heart.

Waking up into: family, connections , shuffling about to fit together

Waking up into:

questions... what is it that ...
questions, I leave open ended...
questions I dismiss to not matter...
since...

I am Waking up into myself. That can never be a question.


Answers are not that which matter in this mix. I dont want any ideas of what to make this into yet.

I am still yawning, still feeling and taking the time, the relationships that time represents to just be present.

Namaste

Finding Place and Discovering Home

How do you find place? How to find the place which is truly called home?  

It's fun to explore... 

But finding a home, a place that supports your nature, is more than just exploring.  

Discover how to taste potential. Feel out what it would mean to live there. Listen to the tenor of the people, chat to strangers in cafes, gas stations, libraries, main squares. Sit down and poke about the area and parks to get the feeling of the beat of any place you explore.

When imagining what a place is like, you also create a fantasy of what the best it can be. ( and miss the parts that get you in trouble later) Instead feel potentials, compare the potentials to your own life. Examine this relative to how it would be supportive to letting you unfold as a person. Talk to others to get the perspective you miss, reach out and connect to those who live it every day to get the normal day to day aspects of life.

If you can't connect to the people when visiting... then you won't connect if you live there later. Feel your own senses of how you release. If you feel tense in a place then it isn't a place to live, but if you breathe easier.. then follow that and look for the elements that make you breathe easier.

Over time you will find the conditions that match your nature and then when accidentally stumbling across your true home, it will become clear as the potential home it represents

A Taoist in training will wander the world to discover their nature. In this wandering you taste the potential of the world around you, and when you find the place that matches the needs of your own potential...

You discover

Home

Namaste

Prayer Stones

I only have / (Had) one prayer stone. A beautiful Oval Amber / Jasper I found on the beach many years ago. The stone was carved with white whorls that swirled on the surface. It was a nice stone to meditate with and trace out the intricate paths on the surface.

It normally sat on my desk quietly. Today it called out for some reason. I picked it up and it was as if it said to me, today is the day you pass me onward. It had been called to be taken to a different place. I never question whims, so I placed it into my pocket.

We went up to Kapa' au today. Julie was teaching class and we go to the beach for a hour or so before class and take a break from our normal schedule. It was a nice day. Julie had a beautiful class. On the way home to Hilo we needed gas in Waimea. Instead of my normal gas stop I felt the urge that I should go to the other station... So again I know better and just followed that whim as the best path.

As I pull into the gas station, the fellow next to us started to pull out. He noticed my Personal Tao retreat sign on the car, He stopped his truck in mid flow, literally jumped out and excitedly started to talk to me. He began to ask me some questions about the Tao... But then strangely he jumped straight into a question about prayer stones...

I just smiled a big grin and thought to myself.. Oh so you were the one who called to my prayer stone!

I pull out the stone and gave it to him as a gift. He was very surprised. I said it was his stone to use towards his journey now. I explained briefly how to use the stone.

In 45 years I never had a stranger jump out at me and start talking about prayer stones... So as far as signs go, it doesn't get any easier that that to spot when and where to pass on a gift of connection.

He went off and I hope for his dreams the best of luck as he works towards a better life also. These are tough times and I got enough of his story in our quick passing to know he was in the middle of an important juncture of his own life that the gift would make a difference.

The universe is a far larger and more interconnected place than most people give it credit towards. If you want to change the world: just live kindly and listen to the whims of life when they speak up...

• It are often the smallest whims which shift the winds of fate the greatest.

Listen with a open heart, and the connections that need to happen... will happen.

Namaste

Shape Shifting

I am going to be the beach later today. To be one with sand and family.  

Our form isn't just the shape of our body, Our form includes the movement of life and the shape that we create with our movement. 

Today is a good day to practice shifting form in how to live life... As is each day. Yesterday I talked a bit about using awareness to look at one's larger form. Today, the follow on thought is:

Within your actions to live fully to your form!

But again action is more than just Body, it includes actions on many levels to compliment your entire essence.

Namaste

Lilies

Picture of the night lilies out back.  



We so blind ourselves paying attention on how we should appear. As example the lily glares out in the light here. Too bright to even see details

It often over overshadows the reflection of our soul clearly to be seen in the water below (but all too often faintly as this picture illustrates if you look), as our life flows.

It is in this fashion how meditation opens up our awareness to see our full nature. It isn't becuase our nature isn't to be seen, but more to the point in our focus of self.. We lose sight of the larger essence we project out as our nature. Meditation practices let us extend our awareness around us and deeply into ourselves, over just seeing what is at the surface.

Namaste