The world needs a healing

This will be one of my last sacred rants.  I cannot promise it will be the last because that would probably be a lie.  After this I will begin a telling of the progress of the Sacred Works Project from week to week.  Things are going well by the way and I will share more in the weeks to come. But for now, I rant.

Let’s heal the world not destroy it.  These are the words of a friend of mine from a discussion we had at the out set of the Sacred Works Project.  He had a dream of a tortoise being poisoned by its environment.  The dream went on to a new scene were the tortuous was given medicine for its ailments.  This became an image for me as I worked to create the Sacred Works Project and Mama’s Fire.   The world by the way is the tortoise, bodhicitta the medicine.

The world is a place of fear and suffering.  Everyone is sick and disaster is everywhere.  So fuck it, give up, let it go.  That’s the common theme.  The end of the world is coming. Well here is my two cents.  No it is not coming.  The world is working to heal itself.  The expressions of horror are the traumas it holds asking to be met, nurtured and healed.  If we are to call ourselves bodhisattvas, and I do give myself that title, then I and we must rise to this occasion with everything I and we have in our power.  That is the energy, the mission and the intention; heal the world, don’t destroy it.

Power is the issue.  It is broken down quite simply.  We as human beings have a choice.  We all given power at some level.  It really comes down to how we choose to use it. Do we use it to have power over others or do we use it to protect others.  The first creates the world of horror we live in and the second creates – well just imagine what a world would be like if everyone used their power to protect those around them.  That is the world I want to live in.

To heal the world is simple.  We make this shift.  We use our power not to have power over others (a feeling which comes from trauma – the need to have power over others so that one might get one’s own power back) but instead we use our power to become protectors.  The horror we have all experienced is not a personal attack, it is a gift to make us strong so that we may protect others.  In this way we as a race are no longer victims.  We become empowered protectors of love, kindness and humanity.