| I Salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not, but there is much that, while I cannot give, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow: behind it yet within our reach is joy. Take Joy! And so, at this Christmas time, I greet you, with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away. Fra Giovanni "Become a student of change: It is the only thing that will remain constant." Anthony D"Angelo |
As I write this I am hoping that all who read have had a summer of good experiences and growth – rain does make things grow!! I was able to keep only a minimum of my schedule since June as I experienced a back injury coupled with some bursitis. So the new schedule is now on site. New items will be posted as I “hear” what is to be offered and what is requested. I have been deep into “A Call to Compassion” – a series of workshops. It was exactly what I needed to do research on and teach as I grew in my own experience of inner healing thru the summer months. I shall be offering this series of five workshops again fairly soon for those whom may be interested. As I prepare my next workshop on “The impact of emotions on DNA” , I have been brought back to teachings of Gregg Braden, Deepak Chopra and others. I would like to quote from Gregg Braden’s book “Awakening to Zero Point”: “ As we allow life to show us ourselves in new ways so that we may know ourselves in those ways and we reconcile within ourselves that which life has shown us, then we become Compassion. It is within the very reconciliation, the coming to terms with whatever we have invited as life, that we become Compassion. Deceptively simple, the understanding of life’s mysteries has been the subject of controversy and debate for centuries. In what extremes have we taken ourselves to know of the darkest of the dark and the lightest of the light? Clearly, the ancients remind us of two things: *That the events of life serve us by allowing the opportunity of feeling and emotions through a broad range of experiences all of the “good” and all of the “bad”. *Further, there is a pattern to the order within which we will recognize the experience. There is a sequence and a progression to the experiences.” “The keys to compassion, then, lie in our ability to embrace all experiences as part of the One without judgment. To live solely in the “light”, shunning, ignoring, working against and judging anything other than light is to defeat the very purpose of your life in a world of polarity!” “There can be no battle without judgment.” “Compassion may be discovered in redefining the experiences of life for what they are, rather than what our judgment and bias will make of them.” So, that is, in a “nutshell” the “ work” I have been doing in the past two months. Dr. Usui admonishes us to be diligent about “the work”. I could not have had the insights to these teachings without the experiential work. I wish all a wonderful autumn time and trust that the usual vibrant colors of fall nourish your hearts and souls before the white of winter. It is a pleasure to be of service to any and all who come to my door. For the past few years I have had to be careful regarding my spine and driving and will have to be even more careful from now on. I had been judging myself about “aging, and the ramifications (and not running around in my car as I did in my 50’s and 60’s!) but recently realized that saints such as Si Baba and Deli Lama change bodies often, so why not the soul who I am? Maybe their aging, dying and rebirthing is a message to us all as we become older – to just relax into it and take it day by day, with no judging – as Gregg Braden suggests? I honor the Creator within each , Trudi PS: Ah, yes, I hear your thoughts as you read above! Teachers such as Gregg Braden (and even the Ancient Essenes) are saying we do not have to die – and I believe that that could be possible, but very much up to how we do our “work”? So, here is a quote from his book “Awakening to Zero Point”: “Through the life and Resurrection, Christ’s experience was a metaphor for our lives. Through his execution, he modeled for all humanity a process that each will go through individually, as well as collectively. In the closing years of this cycle, every life form existing upon the Earth will have the opportunity to experience the dimensional translation as Earth’s shift from a third to a fourth density experience; a Zero Point awareness and the choice of Resurrection over death.” All I can say is this: let us each do our work of having love and compassion for all sentient beings on the planet, including ourselves, and see what happens!!! If we all made it our “goal”, Earth would certainly be a wonderful planet! Love you, Trudi |