World Healing and Karma . . . for Humanity Empaths

“The karma we’re experiencing right now in our world has a special significance for us – as Humanity Empaths. We’re the Change-makers, Visionaries and Geniuses who are going to take Humanity forward into the light.”—Susan

“What we’re learning now is “the big lesson”

What we’re learning now is “the big lesson”: to let world karma play itself out so we can progress, we need to use our biggest skills … and it’s the hardest thing that we need to do, do it willingly and creatively to align with the energies of change and transformation. In zen we do all of this peacefully …

“We need to meet and neutralise our karma, and then if we meet it again we’ll recognise it and rise above it, dealing from our Power and Soul’s Truth . . . ” precised from Dane Rudhyar in The Astrology of Transformation.

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Freeing Our-self to be Human

Freeing ourselves to be human is a way of opening up to true compassion, and a way of living with a kind, pure heart: a little bit of the Zen of living simply . . . but which adds up to a totality.

This is healing, and the healing comes in the acceptance that the whole world is hurting and crying out.  So we learn to listen to the voiceless voice of the world: the cry from humanity’s heart.

You practice this self-healing by opening yourself to whatever situation you may be in. It’s no use saying that the suffering out there in the world is foreign, that it doesn’t belong to you. You have to take care of it every day, because it has already appeared. Just keep yourself open to it. And in so doing, give yourself some life-freedom.

Zen practice is the practice of doing this, sitting and knowing that we ourselves contain the entire world: this is a powerful Zen practice – Eat Your Shadow.

In Eastern philosophies and cultural ways of being, the light, the energy, the hope has been found in dealing with the Shadow. You know, as the dark Goddess Kali, embodies for us.

As far as I know, this self-growth practice and process pre-dated Hinduism in India – moving from the dark to the light has always been the soul’s path in Yoga, with the soul-power manifesting right at the moment you discern what the choice before you is. As we know this happens at Guru [Agya] Chakra .

So, how do you Eat Your Shadow?

First, Make Friends with the Unacceptable:  Become aware of the qualities you find ugly or unacceptable in others, writing down a list if that helps. Then, realise that these are qualities that also exist within yourself. Make peace with these qualities, both within and without.

The more we repress aspects of ourselves, hiding from them and ignoring them, and project them onto others, the more power these qualities have over us, and the greater likelihood they will appear in our lives as symptoms, bad dreams, or repetitive situations which we feel we have no control over. This has been called the shadow of a human being since ancient times.

Carl Jung did much good work on the way we dump all the unacceptable parts of ourselves into our unconscious, and let it fester there as we hide from it.  We then see these qualities in those people and situations that are around us. [As far as I can tell, Jung became aware of this whole process through his knowledge of Yoga, and practices of working with the Root (Muladhara) Chakra.]

Eat Your Shadow:  In order to be free of this process, we “eat our shadow”.  This means we must reclaim and own these hidden qualities, realise they are part of us, and welcome them into our lives.  The very act of welcoming certain qualities or people takes the steam out of them.  We can then absorb the energy and transform them into something constructive.

Zen practice is the practice of doing this – “eating the shadow”, sitting and knowing that we ourselves contain the entire world.

Freeing ourselves to be human.

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Zen of Inspiration and a Heart-based Way to our Future

We’re all suffering from being terribly practical—that’s what we’re taught to be from an early age. We’re encouraged to be, all the time: open the newspaper and what does it say? Watch TV and what does it tell us? The prevalent message is “…we all ought to be more practical”.

So, of course, when we try to solve our problems we try to find practical solutions to them. We don’t want to enter into the realms of philosophy, which is all about maybe, could be, should be … we want to go into the realms of “…what can I do and what can’t I do?” and “what’s possible and what isn’t possible?”

And yet, maybe that isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. In the same way that money isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. In the same way that we as human beings are more than just physical entities requiring roofs over our heads and food in our stomachs. There are certain basic needs to be met, but does that make us happy? Should we be contented because we’ve got the things that meet basic needs, especially when others in our world don’t? No.

There has to be something else or else life doesn’t have any magic in it, it doesn’t have any meaning in it…we have to have something else: we have to have some inspiration, we have to have some joy, we have to have a sense of fulfillment, a sense of engagement, a sense of excitement and a sense of belonging. And without those things, life really quickly becomes very empty. And when it does contain those things, life become poetic. Life becomes wondrous and fulfilled.

We’re all suffering from being terribly practical

Factors in our lives right now seem to be crying out for a practical solution. Many of us are doing as much as we can to find one. And yet, we don’t seem to be finding solutions! Maybe, that’s because we’re looking in areas that are too practical. Maybe, something a little bit more heartfelt would be more appropriate. Maybe it’s time now to build a solution, to build a plan built on an approach which is based on inspiration, and is based on vision, and is based on hope.

That would mean practising tolerance, and embracing a whole plethora of big, wide visionary and mind-heart-based ideas that won’t be supported by any amount of logical argument or clever rationale. But, this approach would be supported by some other factor which is often overlooked in issues of seeming practicality.

There’s another force. And it’s the force that can bring us all we need and more, if we trust it. Primal force. Truthforce. And it doesn’t operate on the same level as the force of money and the force of intelligence. It is certainly not the force of argument. It’s the force of the heart. It’s the force of feeling. And it’s the force of a profound powerful emotion: a desire to be something, and to give your heart to something you desire to be. A change-maker? A visionary genius? A vitality agent? In your own way, as your heart desires.

Being an expression of the joy of living and inspiration, and expressing this in your unique way supports all of us. Something that is inside of us that has been suppressed now wants to reach out to something a bit higher, that will bring fulfillment—and then there’s the fear. Something inside of us all now is scared. What if we fall flat on our faces and what we try as change-makers doesn’t “work”? What if what we try turns out to be a great mistake? Are we fools for trying?

“…at least we’re being sincere”

Following our hearts could turn out to be the best possible reason for trying—at least we’re being sincere. Maybe our inspired ways of making change will work, maybe not. But something inside of us collectively and individually will be lifted, and liberated as a resut of trusting the inner feeling: those urges, those sensations we’ve been having that something that’s got to be right has to be worth a try.

That’s why it’s so important at the moment to pay a bit less attention to all the “practicalities” and all the current arguments in favour of “this and that” —whatever the solutions of the day might be. And pay more intention to something inside you that says we shouldn’t care what’s practical and what isn’t, the voice of the heart that says “I know what I want, I know what I want to try for and I know that even if I get there or not at least I tried and gave myself to it.” That’s the way our energy needs to go right now.

This heart-based, sincere approach is the one most likely to take us down the road of making the changes “we” the collective as Humanity needs right now… it’ll get us on the right path.

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Zen of Evolving into Happiness

The world is changing and it’s changing fast, it’s going through a profound process. We can see it happening all around: open a newspaper, talk to someone, talk to anyone and they’ll all tell you things they once found were sure and certain in their lives are no longer such stable factors.

Ideas, beliefs, opinions which were once completely clung to are really becoming irrelevant—partly in the face of changing world conditions, technology and social factors, and partly because we are evolving.

 

 

We’re evolving collectively as a race and individually as well. And it’s with regards to our own unique individual evolution that I’m sharing now, because these are powerful times for you and me and a sense of anticipation is welling up within us from somewhere—and a feeling that anything could become possible soon is definitely starting to present itself. Although maybe it’s only happening in a negative way leading to the expectation that the “anything possible” is going to be bad or undesireable, a sort of miserable “anything”—or depressing, or anything that would equate to a kind of failure of some sort. Because there’s definitely a sense of humanity’s failure wafting around on the winds of change.

Pushing that idea away is possible, leaving inner space for the positive probable: we’re evolving and we’re learning. While we’re in the process of sweeping the negative idea aside in our expectations, this is the time for rising above some of the fears and concerns now being felt. And I’m thinking especially about fears and concerns for people we’re close to in life or share common interest with, and many of whom are going through important dramas of one kind or another. We all have involvements partly due to the fact that we care and partly too because of the great “ven diagram” of existence—obviously there’s a connectivity, an overlap between what’s happening to them and what’s happening to us which is in the web of inter-connectedness. And in the overlap, the connections, is our experience of living in the world.

So you might feel reasonably stable enough with you yourself, but feeling destabilised by what’s happening to somebody else, by the choices they make, the preferences they express and the decisions they reach. What are you supposed to do about any of that—where’s your control? Where’s your power to rebalance something that’s out of line, as our world most definitely is?

 

 

The main thing is, and it’s the most interesting thing I can tell you right now: you have more power and strength, more self-control and more self-reliance than you probably realise. This all comes with the territory of being human. All you need to do to tip the balance the right way, is to be far less concerned about the issues that are arising and avoid any temptation to leap into the quick sand of conflict.

It is so tempting to take sides in an argument: pointing the finger at who’s caused climate change, or air pollution, or lacking the insight to tread lightly in their carbon footprint. Saying you’ll fight a battle on behalf of causes, or being willing to wage a war against that bad thing and stand up for this good thing, does not serve balance. Conflict does not and never will bring harmony.

This does not suggest abandoning principles close to our hearts. Far from it. But, and it’s a big but, where we don’t have to be drawn we choose the power of not being drawn. Where we might suspect we have to be drawn and take much needed action, there’s an art in not being drawn so much as to lose sense of perspective. Because then there’s the danger of forgetting, we didn’t come here to Planet Earth in order to win campaigns or to achieve great victories, we came here to be happy.

Despite all that’s happened and is happening nothing has changed, being happy was the original object of the exercise of living here and now, part of the human race and the great collective of Humanity: a living being, on a living Planet in a living Universe. What we’re experiencing now, only triple emphasises the point: life is about being happy.

Right now, we have an option to evolve into happiness. The more we prioritise that, the more we reach for peace and relaxation and trust within ourselves, the easier everything is going to get.

 

 

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Zen of Reaching the Emotional Maturity to Say : “this is our destiny” …

You know those signs we see in retail shops and supermarkets: “The impossible we can do now, miracles take a little longer …”? Yes, it’s funny but there is an element of truth in the sentiment.

The idea of course being that the impossible does sometimes require a great deal from us but somehow or other we manage to achieve it. And miracles are reachable for as well, if we want them badly enough. And often in life, we have to do what one way or another is difficult – when it’s the only thing we can do, and it’s hard, that’s a sign of destiny calling.

We can’t do everything just because it’s easy—and, obviously I’m saying here that collectively, as Humanity, we’re looking at a proposition of our future that definitely does seem daunting.

 

 

Making radical change to bring about a future that is fairer to all, including animals, plants and Planet, which we can sustain holistically in the face of seeming chaos is going to require a lot of effort. It’s going to take a great deal from us, we’re not going to find it easy, but that doesn’t mean that what some of us have in mind as change-agents and future-makers is not achievable. It is, if only we can put enough into it. This is the maturity of discerning what we put our effort into exactly.

And the only difference we need to be aware of is the difference between something which is going to take a lot out of us, going to prove extremely time consuming and energy absorbing but is possible—and something that no matter how hard we try isn’t going to come right for us. Decisions like these take maturity.

And how are we supposed to know the difference between the two ways we can use our energy now? Well, often in life we find ourselves facing situations which we really wish we could change, factors which we would alter at a stroke only if we could—would the Universe give us a magic wand we’d wave it … But we’re not getting that right now, we can’t, much though we might dream of it, yearn for it, wish for it.

That absolutely does not mean though that we’re entirely powerless in our current situation —or any situation for that matter—because regardless of what we may or may not be able to alter in the external physical world, there is always something we can do something about: and that’s our own attitude, our own set of responses, our own beliefs, our own ways of behaving.

Is it easy to fix your own behaviour pattern? Absolutely not. Is it easy to change your own attitudes? Definitely not, but it is always possible. Whereas, when you’re dealing with the world that extends past your own physicality, when you’re dealing with anything else that involves the outside, we just take our chances sometimes! Sometimes we can fix things and sometimes we can’t.

 

 

Often it seems we are small cogs in big machines. As often as not it really does seems there’s little we can do about certain factors and situations … Now, we see us reaching a point in Humanity’s journey through time living on Planet Earth: a point where we have to recognise what we can change and what we can’t.

Is it possible for us to change something in the way we’re looking at life? Yes, but it’s going to be very hard. Is it worth making that near super-human effort? Absolutely, yes. Not just worth it, but really worth it. And not only that, but it won’t just be the sense of success or the rush of elation as we finally realise we’ve “done it…”—pushing through changes for a radically better version of Humanity’s future—that makes the difference. The journey towards that transformation will be wonderful too.

And all we have to do is recognise, identify, decide, that inside of each individual human being now a part of our own hearts and our own heads is ready to look differently at key issues in our lives. I call this opening up our Spiritual Vision.

The moment we even say to ourself “yep, that’s what I’m going to try and do“, we start managing to do it—and the results won’t just be different in the way we feel they’ll be different in the way other people treat and respond to us and our new maturity. In fact, you my be amazed at how different—I call these our “zen miracles”. We become so much more inspiring, results in our lives become more inspiring.

 

 

Zen Power

Taking a moment here to pause, and hold a thought in our collective minds for a small “zen miracle”: if we think of our “World” as a big body, that needs a big breath, then breathe in positivity and breathe out negativity. Sit with this thought of one body and a big breath: and pause…

And consider the zen power of being good at the things we don’t do… nothing is missing: opportunity for change is on our side, but sometimes it needs to be hunted down…tracked down, so we can make it work for us.

So, our destiny: are we mature enough for it yet? Can we collectively make things right for Humanity and our Planet?

Namaste, SuZen

 

 

 

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