Let's take a moment and as always,
As in Tantra,
We always say,
Savor the present moment,
As God is manifesting right here,
Right now,
In the form of you and me and everything that's happening.
It's all one being manifesting and expressing itself in all these different ways,
And one of them is fear and intolerance and hatred.
And we know that it comes from ignorance and bigotry.
It all comes from ignorance and fear.
I think a great energy to connect is with the energy of compassion,
Not in an enabling way,
But in that wherever we respond,
We respond from a place of connectedness with the heart and with the truth.
First of all,
Take a moment and just acknowledge how you feel within the body,
How what brings up as these actions partake and what breaks up inside of you,
Not enough,
Not thinking about it,
But just sensing into your body,
How these actions reverberate in you and your own experience of them.
And compassion with yourself and what do you have to go through in your own life,
The challenges of being you in this world.
Compassion is not self-pity.
It is a recognition of the challenges,
A recognition of the pain,
The ancestral pain,
A recognition of the loss.
If we don't acknowledge pain,
Then pain can become fear and retaliation.
We don't want to do that,
Right?
Breaking the cycle of violence.
As you breathe in and breathe out,
Getting choked with your body,
With your belly,
With your chest,
With your heart,
Your throat,
Your body,
Your body,
Your body,
Your body,
Your body,
With your belly,
With your chest,
With your heart,
Your throat,
Jaw,
Face.
Notice any tightness,
Any sense of contraction.
And bring gentleness to whatever you feel,
Love.
Try to be precise into locating where does the feeling is more tangibly inside your being.
Where in the body do you feel more?
And what exactly are you feeling?
Can you be intimate with yourself?
Can you be intimate with this feeling?
As you locate the feeling,
The sensation,
Does it move,
Does it change,
Does it,
What qualities does it have?
Getting out of our heads and into our bodies is being with the truth of the present moment.
So,
Noticing the reaction that arises within you as you feel,
Which is a part of us that does not want to feel.
It's a part of us that wants to protect itself from its own feelings.
So,
Acknowledge that part too.
And you bring kindness to all the different aspects of your being.
If there's anything you need to forgive yourself,
Sometimes judgment not only goes outside but it goes within.
There's this Buddhist prayer that says,
I understand I am not perfect.
I came here to learn and grow.
Therefore,
I give myself the space to learn and grow.
I forgive myself.
In the same way,
I understand other people are not perfect.
They came here to learn and grow.
And I give space for that and I forgive.
And if I can forgive right now,
May I be able to forgive sometime in the future.
And you'll see how that prayer resonates within you today.
What arises as you forgive yourself and others?
May I be happy.
May I be free from sorrow.
May I be free from the clutches of fear and anger.
May I forgive myself for my own mistakes,
My own shortcomings.
And that same energy,
May others be happy.
May I be free from the clutches of fear and anger.
And that same energy,
May others be happy.
May others be free from pain and sorrow.
May others be free from the clutches of fear and anger.
May others forgive themselves and forgive others.
May there be peace.
Notice how prayers resonate within the body.
Where does the energy of love and blessings take you within?
