Mystic Rose - Mystic Heart

Rose Nebula

The Mystic Rose is the Heart of the lover, the seeker, the finder of the Beloved;
The Mystic Rose opens and unfolds by the touch of Spirit;
Breath is the touch of spirit on the body.
To open the heart is to open the door way to subtle perceptions of the One Reality - this is awakening, Awakening never ends.


Within the Mystic Heart exists 3 subtle centers (Latifa): 
1. Qalbia, the soul - Left side of chest around the Physical Heart;
2. Ruhia, the spirit - Right side of chest behind the right breast area;
3. Sirria, the secret of the heart - Center of chest between the other two.

Activate these subtle centers by gently breathing in and out through each until you feel it come alive and open with the touch of your breath-spirit.

The Mystic Rose is the symbol of the heart of Rasul, the unbroken light of Prophetic consciousness. 

In the stillness after this practice, you may feel that presence, and if you do, you may wish to affirm: Rasul-Maqbul.  Pir Zia Inayat Khan has said of this: With Rasul we attune to spirit of guidance, the awakened human; and Maqbul, which signifies the accepted one, we accept the messenger (rasul) and open ourself to be an expression of that message.

 

“The very presence of the prophet may make a person see things differently, and yet he may not know that it was because of the prophet. He may only think that that which was not clear to him, or for a moment seemed different to him, is now right and clear. For the prophet is a living light, a light which is greater in power than the sun. The light of the sun can only make things clear to the eyes, but the light that the prophet brings to the world makes the heart see all that the eyes are not capable of seeing."

 - Hazrat Inayat Khan from the Social and Religious Gathekas

The Spirit of Christ-Mass

The birth of Jesus the Christ was, as with all Prophets, a great light and blessing for the consciousness and spiritual evolution of humanity. 
 
What was set in motion by the physical presence of each Prophet is ever evolving.
 
The holiday of Christ-Mass, the celebration of Jesus Christ, offers a special energy for opening our hearts to attune to the spirit of this great being. It is not actually the birth date of Jesus but never-the-less, the time of the Winter Solstice does hold much of what Christ gave to humanity: Renewal, Rebirth, the return of the Son!

The ever-living Christ spirit also brings to us incorruptible Faith, Strength, Certainty and Knowing of the One Reality (Abba, Father). Most remarkably, through Fana-fi-Rasul, Christ gave to humanity a new stage of spiritual evolution - 'to be one with the Father as I am one with the Father'. 

A Prophet's consciousness and life is one with the consciousness of humanity past, present and future. Through Christ's life, the veil of seperation from the Father was progressively exposed and shattered; this great fana (dissolution) dissolved the inner veil and through his baqa (rebirth or resurrection), opened the door to a new realization of the truth of our being. So now in our lives we are lead ever onward toward liberation, illumination, freedom, and eternal life. 

To help us with this transformative process Christ gives to us his Faith and his Knowing, which is Ya Maumin. 

If you wish to renew this faith repeat Ya Maumin; if you need to strengthen this faith, repreat Ya Azim-Maumin; if you need to find this faith, say Ya Wajid-Maumin.

Yeshua said, “I AM THE LIVING GOD, The Way and The Truth and The Life; no man comes to my Father but by me alone.”

Jesus said, "I am going there to prepare a place for you. After I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back. Then I will take you with me, so that you can be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going."

End of the Mayan Calendar

Not the end of the world... but the end of something significant.

Think about it, our calendar governs so much of our lives, what if it ended?
It is not the end of that part of our world governed by the calendar?

Would it bring freedom - maybe, would it bring chaos - maybe.  It would definitely be an ending of an old world view and all the frames of consciousness which that entails, and it is definitely a force for a new beginning.

It is not an accident that it occurred on the Winter Solstice of 2012, not an accident at all, for at this time there is a tremendously powerful impulse and flow of light and energy coming into the collective consciousness of humanity.  The impetus of this is to take away the limitations of the past and enable a new world of possibilities for the future.

So, from a certain point of view, the end of the Mayan Calendar is the end of  "a" world - but with every ending comes a new beginning!

Cheers!



 

First Day of a Very Special New Year

Day 1, Post Winter Solstice 2012; Day 1, Post Yule; Day 1 Post End of the Mayan Calendar.

Happy New Year to you, Happy Birthday to the new year - for this is the true solar beginning of the new year in our hemisphere of life on the planet.

There is a very strong energy occurring right now, ushered in with the Solstice!  It is absolutely sheeting away limitations and karmic entanglements from our consciousness, the limitations of the past both individually and collectively.

You can actually feel this if you just sit, relax and become still - the energy will help you become still.  What you will feel is a tremendous flow of energy - let go and let it flow, flow, flow.

Some of us, for awhile, may feel a lot of emotions, memories, and thoughts arising like a phantasmagoria of our past.  You may watch these go by but try not to grasp on to them, let them flow - they are flowing to a higher level of integration within your being. The intention of the energy right now is to give you freedom and open the way to new possibilities in life. So allow everything to flow like a stream, and in that flow all will be replenished and given back anew. And just think, you don't have to do anything!

The divine quality that can help us with this is found in the wazifa Ya Wahabo, it means the divine flow and also the divine bestower.

Prayer for New Year  

O Thou who abidest in our hearts,   
most Merciful and Compassionate God,   
Lord of Heaven and Earth,   
we forgive others their trespasses and ask Thy forgiveness of our shortcomings.   
We begin the New Year with pure heart and clear conscience, with courage and hope.   
Help us to fulfil the purpose of our lives under Thy divine guidance.

Amen

Hazrat Inayat Khan 

The Life of the Seasons

Oh, how they enrapture and enfold us in their unique rhythms and dynamic harmonies; how they incite deep personal memories and yet also an archetypal nostalgia akin to the very flow of creation itself.  They are the rhythmic breathing of the solar system which is part of a greater cosmic breath. The dance of life! 

Each season itself breaths - they arrive announcing themselves, manifesting via a Jelali Exhalation and they depart quietly in the fullness of a Jemali Inhalation.  Each season enters with a purpose and departs in a fulfillment of purpose!  The fullness of their departure is an inhalation into a seed state, an Akashic state, that is imprinted with new evolutionary information that becomes the seed which is nurtured and grows into the next season.  The seed of the previous season is grown by the next season, it is the same seed, yet different, evolving and evolving!

This evolutionary imprint however does not just imprint the next season with its boon of existence, it feeds the whole of existence, the the divine consciousness itself. How marvelous, how mystical the flow of the seasons of creation and so to our lives! We as Humans, as Atman, embody all the seasons, for the consciousness of the human is the consciousness of the One Reality itself.  Breath is the flow of consciousness bring about creation - one creation, one consciousness breathing in many glorious forms.

Contemplate if you will that at this time of year (December 1st) we are feeling what was the fullness of an evolutionary cycle of creation embodied by Autumn, now in its final stages of transformation into the Akashic State; Imprinting the akashic seed with new wisdom and evolutionary tendencies to be incubated within the stillness of Winter and reborn anew in Spring. Consider also that the Winter Solstice is the beginning of a new evolutionary cycle of our lives - the true New Year!

Enjoy this:
Without effort, simply become aware of your breathing. Let your breathing relax and become completely natural. Now feel that your breathing is part of the breathing of the solar system, of the seasons, and then as part of the breathing of the whole creation. Surrender your breathing so that it feels like you are "being breathed" without effort by the whole cosmos, gently cradled in the loving, rhythmic breathing of creation.