Power

The most difficult task on earth is to somehow tackle and eradicate the fear and ignorance that block our ancestors from thrusting up into us and impelling us to become what we are destined to be. To connect properly and effortlessly with others first requires us to connect with our own life – to deeply feel (know) its significance and context – within the stream of life that went before and will go on after. Abandonment, if it is anything other than a foolhardy letting go, is a relinquishing of self sufficient for this responsibility. To live such a life requires energy but first and foremost it requires power. Power comes from connexion – connexion to sources of power. It expresses through us if we are so connected but is never really ours – we just have the key. The two principle sources are the teaching and the ancestors. Without letting these two into your life I'm not sure it is possible to make a correct (natural) connexion with the earth or the heavens or the other. Everything has an ancestry – a weight of tradition – a power source – so if when we connect with other entities we connect with that, which requires us to yield – to lay our ancestry alongside its, then we tap power, a power which may even be unavailable to that entity. This is what the teacher does all the time. He/she feels and connects with the mass of positive influence that has fed into our lives, especially from before we were born. This is the teacher's compassion at work. It is like a nosiness – a constantly ferreting interest (intrusion almost) that need not express itself verbally but will certainly express itself energetically. It requires, from the teacher, softness and constant yielding – a constant entering and drawing in. By tapping into your latent power the teacher unlocks it for you, if only for an instant. The student's usual reaction is to recoil in horror at the immensity of firstly the power itself, and secondly the task of coming to terms with it, harnessing it, and putting it to real positive use. Little by little the student resigns him or herself to the task and makes a start. Then all that is required is the courage to continue.

From the rain you come
to stand here in silence
and find it all out.

Joseph Massey