As a spiritual community, we’re developing a Culture of Bliss . . . as “Messengers of Balance through Wisdom”. So let me say more than I have previously about my teaching of Goddess, Virtue and importantly Shakti energy as the powerful life force: essentially the power of the sacred state in which we choose to live in daily life: and we have a saying “the sacred state is always where you are . . .”
Getting to Virtue
Here are a few ways I explain these forces and powers to you: I call it “Getting to Virtue”. Remember in your introduction to SoMa daily practice, I explained that our way of practice is with small steps unfolding us spiritually and taking us to the “Raincloud of Virtue”? Our “Raincloud of Virtue” is a state of meditation which we aspire to: Samadhi, Nirvana or Heaven which of course is within you.
So, symbolically, your virtue “rains down” on all around you with blessings from Heaven—and in its purest and most forceful state the highest form of virtue that we can create is hope. “Getting to Virtue” is actually a natural state of being for us when we’re living as the true beings we came here to be.
“Livingness” rises or moves through us, and I mean through our total body-being-nature—pure essence of generative or creative life force naturally available in each of us. Essence is purer than energy and potentially unlimited, and in its essence this force is undifferentiated . . . and it moves through our central channel for divine energy, moving upwards through the Chakras.
This is what I mean . . . we say Shakti is undifferentiated because there is no “good/bad”, “happy/sad” or “right/wrong” for example in the spirituality of essence: differentiation is a human thing—it makes us fragile. Which is why we need our understanding of Goddess energy and its many, many different expressions which are usually passed down to us in myth and storytelling. Goddess Kali in the Indian expression, for example, as the Dark and Terrible Mother who teaches us the importance of overcoming our egos . . . . and Gaia in the Greek mythology, made to take her own children back into her womb by their father/brother so she couldn’t bear any more, teaching us that there can come a day when “she will take it back”—meaning the abundance of her blessings as Mother Earth.
So, as undifferentiated essence, purer than energy and without any pre-determined quality, it’s up to us as humans how we use our Shakti life force: as myth and storytellng show us, the choices we make on our life journey determine our growth. We “get to the raincloud of virtue” when we make life choices with discrimination and good judgement—as we experience energetic qualities at each Chakra level, it’s up to us to choose the highest spiritual vibration and so “raising our kundalini”.
An example would be, at base or root chakra level whenever we’re under pressure choosing to live at a higher vibration than merely survival . . . and using meditation to get more grounded, rising above fear to feel a belonging to our world. At guru, forehead or third eye chakra our aim is to attain maturity and self-mastery, making our choices with discrimination and good judgement . . . focusing our life-force at this chakra means raising our spiritual vibrations and accelerating our Spiritual Vision.
You’ll know this probably as the process of “Kundalini Rising” . . . and this is how I teach it: When we talk about Kundalini Rising, Shakti power of life force or as I call it, Livingness Rising, what I am teaching you is a path of self-mastery through our inner spiritual guidance to our own Virtue or state of Heaven, our Bliss, that becomes a blessing on all around us. With practice the spiritual guidance becomes self-guidance as you atune to your natural spiritual state of being: it’s innate, it came with you when you were born into this existence, and it is this that gradually unfolds with the way I’m teaching you in our practices.
Goddess Within
It’s “Goddess Within”: Goddess we know of as a “cluster of virtues” . . . for us that cluster is abundance, prosperity, potential and hope. So, instead of the confusion of “crappy” ideas, thoughts, beliefs, traditions and culture crowding up your mind-space, we say that Goddess Within becomes awakened and alive. Your mind becomes a living mind, and your natural state of being becomes one of always being guided by your inner spiritual guidance to make life choices and to live daily with virtue . . . building your own “cluster of virtues”: in essence your Spiritual Vision awakens, activates and accelerates—and you start blossoming in your Bliss.
“Your Sacred State is then wherever you are . . . Goddess is awakened within and you have reverence for Virtue . . .”—SuZen
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