The Heart of Compassion
I am the heart of compassion as are you. When I find resonance with heart space, shakti energy, I drop into the divine feminine. I experience the world through the lens of all life and I resonate all life as I am the creator of all life. When I drop into shiva energy, the destroyer of all things, embrace my nothingness, I resonate into the masculine. And when I act from a place of balance of these energies, I am God.
I spoke on the street with a dear friend of mine the other night after yoga class. He was in his reactive mindbody about how his name was being drug through the mud in his community and doors were being closed to him as a result of this. The energy that was shutting these doors was that a past, possibly scorned lover who is in good standing in the community was spreading the rumor that he was angry....agressive....violent!
As we connected heart to heart I saw the disturbance this had created in him. As a man in this society he, like me, has tried to manifest as the antithesis of the prevalent macho, stoic, non feeling, violent men that were the norm for in the culture in which we were raised. As sons of the women's movement we learned what women wanted us not to be. As advocates for our sisters and mothers, we vowed to not rape, beat, overpower physically or emotionally women. We committed to dare to expose our hearts and be sensitive. To be what every woman wanted. Somewhere in it we learned what not to be......but never saw a model for what to be as a man.
As we talked, I thought of the image and shared with him, the kind of man that I want to be is the image of a straight spine, open heart. From this place, when I resonate into my masculine response, I want to cut through the static with authority, with the precision of a sword, with vajra energy and in this force remain connected to the heart. In my view, this is the difference between aggression/violence and assertion. When I act from heart connection it is impossible for me to energetically invade another's space and do harm. I cannot miss the humanity of that person when I take swift action from the heart space. There is no object of my action...there is only the resonant humanity.
I spoke on the street with a dear friend of mine the other night after yoga class. He was in his reactive mindbody about how his name was being drug through the mud in his community and doors were being closed to him as a result of this. The energy that was shutting these doors was that a past, possibly scorned lover who is in good standing in the community was spreading the rumor that he was angry....agressive....violent!
As we connected heart to heart I saw the disturbance this had created in him. As a man in this society he, like me, has tried to manifest as the antithesis of the prevalent macho, stoic, non feeling, violent men that were the norm for in the culture in which we were raised. As sons of the women's movement we learned what women wanted us not to be. As advocates for our sisters and mothers, we vowed to not rape, beat, overpower physically or emotionally women. We committed to dare to expose our hearts and be sensitive. To be what every woman wanted. Somewhere in it we learned what not to be......but never saw a model for what to be as a man.
As we talked, I thought of the image and shared with him, the kind of man that I want to be is the image of a straight spine, open heart. From this place, when I resonate into my masculine response, I want to cut through the static with authority, with the precision of a sword, with vajra energy and in this force remain connected to the heart. In my view, this is the difference between aggression/violence and assertion. When I act from heart connection it is impossible for me to energetically invade another's space and do harm. I cannot miss the humanity of that person when I take swift action from the heart space. There is no object of my action...there is only the resonant humanity.
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