The Heart of Compassion: A conversation with the Goddess of Compassion
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My beloved Goddess of Compassion when I look at the world around me- when I see all the suffering and pain that my sisters are experiencing all over the world I feel anger towards those who are perpetrate the wounding. I find myself in a deep query- how can I love those who are causing such torturous harm?
Goddess of Compassion: My dear beloved YOU. My heart swells with your question- my heart softens and opens as you are willing to breathe in the suffering of your sisters, that you are willing to feel the anger course through you. Your courageous heart, your loving heart- your compassionate heart- we are all held in the love of your heart.
The lotus of my heart brims full of violet fire- the fire of fierce compassion - I ask you to bring you anger to the brazier of the violet flame- and as you sit I ask you to consider, Who is hurting? Who is suffering? - Sit with your heart and truly ask - for it is not simply those who are victims to terrible abuse that suffer- your wise heart knows this. Those who suffer are those who inflict the pain- they suffer. We are all the faces of the
divine- everyone of us...
I know this- I know this wisdom and yet my anger at times feels like it will burn my being- when I feel this anger - it feels so justified, it feels so legitimate- to wish ill on those who are causing such destruction...
Goddess of Compassion: Dearest one- your wisdom abounds- Now feel this anger fully, stand in the shoes of this anger, this justification- fully embrace it- and know that those who perpetrate feel exactly the same way- they feel justified in all that they do- they feel that they have the right- they feel the same level of rage in their blood. So let me ask you this beloved- to take a practice:
1. Breathe into a place of deep gratitude in your heart - open your heart to something or someone you love . Feel your heart swell- feel your heart open petal by petal.
2. Now on the next in breath- breath in the color black- feel just heaviness- darkness.
3. Now on the out breath- breath out white- feel lightness in your being.
4. Now imagine a situation that is hard for you- a situation of suffering- where you feel the suffering of one of those sisters. Breathe in the Suffering- be willing to feel it in all of its despair.
5. And on the out breath- Breathe out LOVE, unconditional love to her, and to all those who suffer- including those who have harmed her.Whenever you feel that anger, that justification in your being allow the deep wisdom of you alchemical heart to transmute this suffering into love- that is the deepest service you can do - for yourself and all beings. I LOVE YOU -
May all beings be free of suffering
May all beings be FREE
May all beings know love
May all beings feel forgiveness
May all beings be happy
Om Ta Tutare Ture Swaha
(info is taken from the Sanctuary of the Open Heart Newsletter - www.sanctuaryoftheopenheart.org)
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