Humour and yielding

The myriad creatures are evidence of the humour of the Natural Process. The proliferation of human beings on the planet has precipitated the quickest and most drastic mass extinction of other species the planet has ever seen. This can largely be put down to a lack of humour – the inability to admit a world in which these species exist and flourish together with us. If, as a species, we possessed a better sense of humour then we would, with that humour, create an energetic space that encouraged the creation of more species. Instead we have art and technology. In a large way we have become alien to the planet we inhabit, so much so that we are busy recreating that planet in our own shitty likeness. It makes you wonder where our collective self-centred greedy mind comes from. There seems to be no precedent for it on Earth.

Man doesn't know his place. For the Elizabethans he vacillated between what they considered the gross coarseness of animals and the divine rationality of angels. He is capable of a whole array of behaviours, moods and energetic configurations. What makes him unique is his lostness – his inability to deeply feel where he fits in – which causes him to strive for something beyond that which he is immediately presented with, whether for wealth, fame, self-expression or immortality – all versions of endurance. The striving is simply an expression of a dissociation with his true nature, or what we call essence. As a species he lost touch with this probably thousands of years ago and as a being he begins to lose touch with it almost as soon as he is born. Spiritual discipline teaches you, through meditation and prayer, to reconnect with this essential nature – a process that takes a minimum of twenty years and probably for most of us with limited time and talent at least a lifetime. In Heartwork however we work with energetic exchanges – the light between-energy – and put the exchange – the developing relationship – the Third Heart – first and foremost. In Heartwork not only are the relationships with your colleagues developing, but so are your relationships with the work and the teaching. All self-concerns evaporate, especially in the heat (heart) of the moment. Even notions of self-defence, and even yielding, go out of the window – all concerns are with just how well connected you can become and how fully and intensely you can express that connexion – how deeply can the connexion go and how fully can it affect – transform – all involved. Be careful how you think of yielding. If for you it is means maintaining balance under difficult circumstances then it is still self oriented and self-centred. Yielding is, or should be, whatever you need to do to get closer. To the truth.