A very small insight: This week I’m practising the short contemplation in “listening to the cries of the world” a way of opening up to compassion with a pure, kind heart: acknowledging that we can all hear the hurt in the hearts of all human beings. You sit quietly and let the cries in.
“Humanity’s heart is broken – I like the way Lynne McTaggart says it: we’re suffering from unrequited humanity . . . in her book The Bond . My own insight today is that humanity has also given itself a big headache, but then that’s been building for centuries.”—SuZen
Powerfully focusing our life-force or shakti energy
“She who hears the cries of the world” is believed to appear to all, but according to their individual need. In her myth, she comes from the “inexhaustible mind of source” or divine source . . . so she manifests as teacher if that is what is needed for healing, or Isis/Devi—or indeed Mother Goddess of the Universe if that’s the need to bring hope. This is what I call the YinZen of manifesting hope for humanity. WE manifest in the here and now, because of our transformation, wherever the Humanity Being needs help—we channel Infinite Thought to follow this Bliss . . . and at the bottom of our hearts we know the urgency and importance of our devotion to our daily practice for humanity, to keep our divine channels open and clear.
This is one of our guiding concepts that powerfully focus our life-force or shakti energy. We manifest whatever is needed to bring hope and healing for humanity.
The concept, myth or story—the humanity heartache
“There is a hurt at the bottom of the human heart”—we can call it unrequited humanity—and in the Tao concept it is the “cry”. I call it the humanity heartache, or better to say “heartbreak”.
In the Tao practice, there is an ancient Taoist story of the separation of the Yin and Yang, which seems to be an origin for the Tao version of the Avolokiteshvara myth, The Regarder of the Cries of the World, and it’s about the origin of The Cry: tens of thousands of years ago just as humankind was beginning to be able to think, we were also beginning our separation from the One, in order to evolve and develop as humanity.
The Yin/Yang Separation
The Yin and the Yang separated and the pain of separation was expressed in the deep cry of the heart of mankind—a hunger and a yearning, many of us now call this “the screaming of the Great Humanity Soul”. In the story, our cries are always heard and our yearning to return to the whole is watched over with great compassion by Mother of the Universe. And in order to return to the whole, we must learn to surrender our thinking-mind back to the One Reality: Consciousness . . . and I call this surrendering The Return to Innocence.
A practice: Listening to the cries of the world
This practice comes from the zen concept that “the Regarder of the Cries of the World” is always present and listening. In the journey of Zen from India to Japan, by the time Zen reached Korea, via China, the mythical Indian Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara had changed gender. By now the god had become a “she”, Kwan Yin the Goddess of Compassion.
As usual, Zen changed with the culture and the culture changed with Zen. It is still changing in its own unique way, as the West continues the great awakening to Goddess.—SuZen
So, as I said this is a small insight, and it may seem like a small, simple thing to do for humanity . . . but, just as when you’re happy you don’t realise what a big thing it is, when you have compassion and listen, and manifest in whatever way help is needed this is beyond vast, it is unlimited as it comes from Infinite Thought.
And this is why we have such a radical devotion to our daily practice as the new Humanity Being.
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