Life Cycles at InfinitEarth

I awoke this morning to a dream…a small bear had entered my home and the Mama Bear came to the front door to retrieve it.  I quickly slammed the door between us and ran further into the house to get away, finding a strategic place where the bear could not enter.

Now I find that the strength of Bear is the power of introspection.  Bear seeks honey, or the sweetness of truth, within the hollow of an old tree.  In the winter, when the Ice Queen reigns and the face of death is upon the Earth, Bear enters the womb-cave to hibernate, to digest the year’s experience.   To accomplish the goals and dreams that we carry, the art of introspection is necessary.

So why not savour the essence of Winter and be in it rather than struggle with it, use the time to calm the internal chatter entering into the place of silence and enter in the place of dream time and imagination and be reborn in the Spring to turn your goals to concrete realities.

“Slow and deep

Into the heart of the day

With each inhalation

Comes an exhalation twice as long

Slow and deep

Filling the lungs with infinit space

The sun rises and sets

In each single breath

Forget about tomorrow

Now is an eternity and life is a victory

So celebrate the heart of the day”

(author unknown)

To help serve the world out of wisdom and compassion is to participate most effectively in the preservation of the planet.   It is important to recognize that ‘spiritual training’ is essential not solely for monks and nuns but for all people, whatever their faith or way of life.  The nature of spiritual development is intensely practical, active, and effective.  (Sogyal Rimpoche)

What do you do for your ‘personal spiritual training’?  Could be walking everyday, playing a musical instrument, meditating, being aware of your thoughts…

Make it a daily practice.