The White Parasol

26 Aug, 2009

Coping with Karma

Posted by: edb In: Modern Spirituality| Mrs. Overall's Things

At some point on our spiritual journey we have to meet and conquer what is sometimes referred to as “the dweller on the threshold”.  It is a reference to the “being” or “entity” that is sum total of all the negative deeds that we have performed during our many lives, and every act of suffering that we may have caused.

All of this is built into this “shadow”. In one of our incarnations, when we feel strong enough or supported enough, we have to face this vision of darkness, which is of our own making. It is perhaps the most courageous, the most awesome, the most barrier-breaking, the most freedom-bringing action that our energy, our being has to do.

It is the ultimate search for our soul, the ultimate purpose or goal for our moving forward, for our growth, for our freedom and to find our truth;  and in the releasing/discarding, to be filled with the love and light of unconditional love.  But each one of us has to do it on our own.  To become aware that the light and the darkness are but two sides of the same coin.  The yin and the yang.

This “darkness” of negativity is particularly fuelled by fear, but love and compassion are key words to its disintegration. Love, unconditional love, is the most profound, the most powerful vibration to conquer all negative frequencies, like fear, hate, anger, guilt, envy, jealousy. . . whatever negatives we cling to. Turning to face our negative dark self, with pure love, is the important preliminary step, the most courageous of steps. We can be assisted, guided, supported, strengthened by others around us, but we have to take the steps alone. Alone.

Conquering this, releases our negativity and allows the love and light to flow through our system, enriching us and, as the light flows from us, enriching others. It is our awakening, our re-birthing, our recognition of our Eternal Self, often referred to as the part of us that has never left the side of God. It is our earth energy and our star energy, it is the completeness, the “whole”, the “holy”.

It is who we are.

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The White Parasol is our (see "about little me and mrs. overall) umbrella where reflections on the confluence of religious,spiritual and modern, everyday life - with all its conflicting issues - can be looked at without and with prejudices. A practical emphasis to provide another way of looking at the bigger picture, in the midst of the ordinary material life, but without theological restriction (which doesn't mean that it is to be disregarded either). The parasol is to protect us from the heat that the issues generate theologically and politically. To propose and discuss,listen to and open up to, other perspectives without fear of getting burnt, in the hope of moving onwards. A belief is not necessarily a reality or a truth, but a programming. The overriding approach: "Faith is about searching for the truth without fear, so it doesn't matter if we lose all of our beliefs.." (from a compilation of ancient wisdoms spanning all religions in Anthony De Mello's "Song of the Bird). But can we question,without fear,issues which shape families, towns, nations and what wars are made of? Well if all the political diplomacy we have had since time immemorial can deliver only a war-torn earth, even in contemporary and "more enlightened" times two thousand years after Christ came to bring peace, perhaps we should dare to.