Today is Palm Sunday, a very holy
time. This is the day that marks the beginning of Holy Week when Jesus
fulfilled the prophecy and was received as the Master that he was. When he
entered the city of Jerusalem,
the people rejoiced and took palm fronds from the trees to lay a path for Him.
As a spiritual community, we are observant right now of Christ consciousness.
Christ consciousness comes to us on this day and during this Holy Week when
Jesus was celebrated, forsaken and crucified, and then resurrected on Easter
Sunday.
We hold the consciousness of Christ,
not according to any particular dogma or religion, but in the consciousness of
His consciousness. Christ allowed himself to die, physically and in all other
respects, in order to be reborn in the consciousness of God, in the
consciousness of the pure light. We reflect on this Master consciousness within
ourselves in order to become peaceful and beautiful. We strive to lay down all
conflict and let it go so we may realize unity, love, beauty and peace. This
week, keep your inner fire going: the fire of the desire to be peaceful and
beautiful. This desire is what generates
the willingness to pray, to meditate, to learn and to self-reflect. This desire
gives birth to the soft, permeable willingness within.
Do not judge the challenging places
that arise and create discomfort and suffering in you. These places are the
fuel for the spiritual fire for transformation. During this time, because
Christ consciousness affected the collective and all of humanity, reflect upon
the mirrors you create in your life because what you see outside of you is a
reflection of what is inside of you. When you have a reaction to someone or
something that is challenging or difficult, it is not about the external
circumstance that you may think it is; it is about you.
When we are in reaction, it feels
very real. It feels like the other person or the outside circumstance is the
cause of your suffering. Use the spiritual fire and inner willingness to meet
the wall of the self—your own inner hardness—to melt and soften what separates
you from the other. Allow your inner willingness to own your reaction. Put it
in the fire of the desire to be harmless. As soon as you own your reaction,
inner transformation is happening. This inner fire is light. It is the very
essence of consciousness. As Christ teaches, the kingdom of heaven is within.
I’m
struggling with a situation with my neighbor who shares a house with me; it
really got blown up last night. She’s doing crazy things.
The real issue is: How do I meet
this challenge? All of the events and pieces that are making up the drama, are
just the pieces that are making up the drama. As soon as you want to make
someone wrong and yourself right, you are not doing the practice. I do not care
what the situation is. That is not to
say that there is not a right action for you to find through your guidance.
What I am saying is, it is exactly at
such times that we feel most justified in our righteousness. It is exactly this
kind of thing that makes us want to tear our hair out because we wonder, “Why
is this happening to me?” That person is crazy, right? She’s off her rocker.
Throw it into the light of the fire
of the desire to be peaceful and beautiful. Understand that this is not a
mistake; it is for you to find a way through this to come out being peaceful
and beautiful. Whatever it is that arises in you, is what is coming up for
healing, and that is what you put into the fire.
I
don’t trust her; I don’t feel safe.
I am not saying I know what you will
decide to do ultimately; you might decide not to live there, for instance.
However, if you make that decision, make it with being peaceful and beautiful.
Make it with the understanding that you take full responsibility for the
circumstances you find yourself in.
Be vigilant this week and do not get
lost in the story details whenever you talk to anyone about this. During this
Holy Week, try not to find somebody to talk to so that you can go into
complaining and breaking it down piece by piece to show how crazy or how
unbalanced she is. Try to hold it in the sacred consciousness of putting it in
the fire of the desire to be peaceful and beautiful. You could certainly say to someone, “Yes, I’m
having a challenge right now,” but then really, really put it into the fire. If you don’t put it into the fire,
what will you do? You will be putting out your violence everywhere. And what
will you get back? The same thing.
I’m
hoping to talk to her directly today.
Do not have an expectation that she
is going to somehow be transformed by your transformation. We do not have any
power to change anyone. Your power is what you do with it inside, how you take
it, how you look at it, how you work with it, and ultimately, in letting it go.
The release of karma is the outcome
of the burning in the fire. Your position and your opinion stop. You meet the
challenge fully, with full acceptance. That is the only way karma gets
transformed. If you do not do that, you will have a whole series of re-created
events in life that will happen with different people in different places, but
in the big picture and in the long run, it will all feel the same.
So
what can I do to prepare myself?
Do not fight her fear. Let her fully
express what she needs to express, and when she is done, then respond. In
having her full expression, she will not be coming up against anything to push
harder against in order to feel safe or heard.
Your shared house is a
responsibility. Step up to respond because you said you would. Be fully present
with this person. Meet this situation. If you get into a relationship of any
kind, be responsible and conscious.
I love knowing I
have the power to hold the light to be a peaceful and beautiful person. I
dearly love it, I cherish it, I honor and respect it, and I have a deep desire
to share it. It is such an opportunity for you to be, and to create yourself to
be, peaceful and beautiful. I cannot think of anything more important for this
world and this dimension than this. I really cannot. We are reflecting on
consciousness, love, self-responsibility, and empowerment, all of the things
that allow us to feel fully alive and fully inspired to be who we are as we go
through life. It is such a full, deep, and abiding place that each person can
grow—you can grow it! Do not expect to arrive at an absolute place. The
willingness to return and return again is all you need to feed the fire of the
desire to be peaceful and beautiful.
When I say “peaceful and beautiful,”
do not assume that to be peaceful and beautiful means that you never experience
fire and never raise your voice in life. You do! But it means that you know the
difference between being an angry person, perpetrating energies on others that
are violent, versus being in a fiery, inspired moment of clarity. There is a
difference, and we must be honest with that. One can be excited and happy and
still be peaceful. One can be sad and compassionate and still be peaceful.
Today, on this day that marks the
beginning of Holy Week, each of you will be given a palm frond to take home and
keep on your altar all week in remembrance of Holiness. Do not get caught up in
Christianity versus this or that; just let it be a symbol of Holiness, a symbol
of spiritual community, and a symbol of spiritual path work. Feed your fire by
your desire to be peaceful and beautiful.
(April 2007)
Maresha's next blog will be published April 22, 2014.
Messages of Light is published by the Sanctuary of Universal Light on Snow Dragon Mountain in Meredith, New Hampshire. www.snowdragonsanctuary.com.
