All hierarchies are man-made. What they cause is there for all to see: environmental destruction, global warming, never-ending wars and so forth; the list is heartbreaking and endless. Look at the environment with a loving heart, and the world once again turns into a miraculous space that feeds on love.
Of course, this guideline is also meant to be understood internally, within oneself. Friendliness to all beings must include yourself. In fact you should be the platform from which to start your loving journey. Sages throughout the ages have been known to "worship" their own bodies to the bewilderment of the people around. Yet seen in this light, it doesn't seem strange at all.
From the book Reiki Fire - Frank Arjava Petter
Picture - "Love and thanks" water crystal - Masaru Emoto
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THE VICTOR
Man is spirit - this is all man needs to know; and spirit is triumphant over matter.
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1. What do you do in your free time?
Go on Gaia, write poetry, go walking and take pictures, garden, meditate, drum, do reiki, meet friends
2. What music helps you relax?
New age, Enya, Enigma, recently Josh Groban!
3. What movie did you enjoy recently?
Nanny McPhee
4. Who makes you laugh?
lots of people!
5. Where do you go/do to recharge?
Walking in the "green areas" near my home. Drum, take photos, meditate, do reiki
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According to the metaphysical systems that frame the physiological-sexual and psychological nature of woman is receptivity. The quality of receptivity, 'an enveloping openness' is evident in tantric symbols of the goddess: the lake, the well, the empty vase and the yoni.
Receptivity is a condition of awareness of empty form. Practically, in the yogin's meditation upon Emptiness, receptive relaxation is imperative; in total mental relaxation, consciousness perched at the doors of the senses achieves perfect insight into the forms of perception (vispasyana meditation).....
In the same way that the female's receptivity invites the male's creative activity, the Dakini's mental receptivity facilitates her perfect insight into the Guru's dynamic forms, and the resulting union is of Emptiness and form, perfect insight and skilful
Every woman is the Dakini. Her third initiation is the empowering recognition of that fact, and her post-initiation practice is the sadhana (spiritual practice) of maintaining and substantiating the Dakini's Awareness....
A yogin can evaluate the maturity of his practice by judging the constancy and depth of his vision of woman as the Dakini. That is not to say that he should see every woman as Tara, the goddess of devoted service (although he should be able to discern that syndrome in every woman to some degree), for there are innumerable types of Dakini, even as many as there are psychological types of women....
The constant in the adept's vision of them all is their empty dance of awareness, whereas the mutable forms of their dances, and their functions, are like make-up and ornaments.....
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