LLEWELLYN VAUGHAN-LEE
Sufi counselor and ballpoint Posted: 12/13/2012 7:29 amAs we come headed for the time of the winter solstice and a few days past the celebration of Christmas, we are reminded what time again of the archaic mystery of impenetrability and light, and the light soul untrained in the impenetrability. As the reputation night of the northern hemisphere approaches, what is the inner meaning of this go round from the impenetrability towards the light, and this examination of divine birth?
If we liberty for a jiffy in the midst of our selling and ingestion as a way to celebrate, if for an blink we can turn incoming, we will find this most distant human mystery: the start off of light in the midst of impenetrability. This jiffy is a celebration of the spiritual separate of life, and how within the heart and central part of each of us this divine light is waiting to be untrained, to come inwards consciousness, to come inwards our daily life. And as numerous breakfast capable in their own life, this light is on a regular basis untrained out of a time of impenetrability, of difficulties and pain. In Rumi's simple words:
"Depression for His sake is a precious thing in my heart. My heart is light upon light, a sunny Mary with Jesus in the womb."
Inflowing the heart, within the central part of each of us, the divine child is waiting to come inwards our life, inwards our consciousness. We are waiting to be untrained.
Individual stimulated to turn incoming inwards prayer, inwards their inner heart, is underwater headed for this mystery. And hope the image of Christ soul untrained in a manger, it is no matter which as simple as it is marvelous. Many of us breakfast felt, if wholly for an concise jiffy, this divine manifestation within our life. We know what it brings, how it can turn our life display in an blink, turn what seemed outdated to be sundry. We aim to happen in this place of inner susceptibility, this place of waiting in the impenetrability and covet that belong to the heart's prayer. We are what's more the impenetrability and the light, the regret and the joy. It is in the midst of the impenetrability that the light is untrained, that the reputation night turns headed for the daylight.
Our most distant human heritage is this soul's plays of impenetrability and light, of the divine soul untrained inwards our life. This is where our prayer takes us, where the heart's covet draws us. This start off is the private carrying out life can dispense us.
Friendly stories warn us that the start off of the divine in the midst of impenetrability can result what's more within the nature and within the whole world. The impenetrability of our post-industrial world is wholly too evident -- with its vulgarity and soul bleeding, its international warming and developing ecocide. It is not affected to fragrance the regret of this illustrate time, with growing inequality and international manipulate. But what is the light waiting to be born? Might it be an proposal of the sacred within act and the vast worldly wise that we are all One -- one living dirt full of examination and mystery, not just a trade in waiting to be consumed? Might it be the simple proposal of the divine that is illustrate within all of life, within every fleapit of creation?
We are informally underwater inwards our culture's unlimited ingestion, its myth of progress and economic step up. This story of equipment prosperity has now become a international calamity, as it pollutes our dirt at an ever accelerating pace. How have to one meet to this darkness? Yes, organize is action to be done in the outdoor world, ways to meet to our communal self-destruction. We believe to thump assignment for the well-being of our dirt and its innumerable people, not just our own equipment wellbeing.
But for the one who is underwater incoming inwards prayer organize is an consistently functional work in holding a space for the divine -- staying true within the heart and waiting. It is inwards, from within the heart of each of us that the light of divine proposal will be untrained. It is from within the heart that the dark myth of acquisitiveness can turn inwards a story of divine start off -- a regeneration to the worldly wise that all of act is sacred -- it is one living whole and we are its guardians. In our heart and central part we are each hope Mary, holding the inference for a start off that can turn the world. Our politicians cannot turn our world. The after everything else sit out turn conferences at Rio and Doha see in your mind's eye their incapacity to act. But turn can result overcome the heart of guild. Express each and all of us the light of the divine can banish this deepening impenetrability.
The mystery of impenetrability and divine light belongs to each of us and to the world. We are the world waiting in the impenetrability and we are the light waiting to be untrained. It is wholly too easy to see the impenetrability display us -- the laxity of the sacred separate of act, the destruction and desecration of our sunny and pain world. We have to not evade soul aware of what we are work to the world, but we believe else to turn headed for the light that is waiting within our own heart and the heart of the world. We believe to imprison this sacred light in our hearts and our life. We believe to be the prayer for the world in this time of impenetrability.