Heavy Heart!

Hi Stan,

Always your responses to me are soothing to my Soul. Suffering, for me, is part of the awakening. One cannot look out into the finite world today, if at all connected to the planet and others, and not suffer......Yet within us is a great container that this suffering can be given....the infinite Source. This greater consciousness, Presence, Universal Intelligence Pure Eros of Love, so many names. Or just Oneness....We take in this suffering, we hold infinite love and intentions toward this pain and suffering in the world then release it....Tonglen is a wonderful practice for this...So, we, in essence become vessels of, paradoxically, holding both the toxin and its antidote. But when we are deeply emerged within the infinite source we are, you might say, protected....like a sump pump we help pull out the toxic waste then release it to be integrated within the Big Mind/Big Heart......This has been my prayer and intention with the gulf oil leak and great floodings and other earth challenges. Also with the on going wars.....I visualize my heart as this giant sump pump, pumping all the suffering and pain into the Big Mind of the Universe to be healed and resolved.....Often, what happens, through the co-create process, ideas and solutions come back to the many to begin the work. How beautiful is that:)

About five years ago I did the Big Mind process with Genpo and Diane M. What I found when returning home and going deeper into my practice, my ability to hold Big Mind/Big Heart became more stable and sustainable. Meditation is still a morning and night practice but I live this practice now through out the day. It is becoming my life.....So this makes sense why the suffering I feel becomes so intense at times.....And, now, within my own native state of La it is felt even more intense....I know these beaches and marshes intimately.

Thank you for joining me in this great intentional meditation.

I also took a sneak peak at your new blog and hope tomorrow to have conversation with you about it.

With love always,

Mary Linda

Hi Brian,

Thank you for sending these sites....all my family live near and around this area. I live in Columbus, Oh. On an intutitive level, yes I know this is bad. My family, children, grandchildren and parents and so many friends also feel this is out of control.....but, when do you make these kind of decisions to pull out.....its hard. My daughter is married to a wonderful Physician, who also has all his family there and he would find it hard to leave others.....not an easy call.

I've had lucid dreams, long before this happend, of great fires in Louisiana now coming back to sit heavy in my being.....When Katrina hit and happened I thought this must be my dreams......now this haunting feeling arises again.

This is why I reach out to everyone to use your own intentions so we can find some kind of solution. Nuclear action is scary to me....what do you think?

Anyone else have thoughts on this and what Brian has shared? How do we see this from an Integral perspective? I am crying as I write this.....yet, I know the strength and courage within me is greater than any fear......

With love to you all,

Mary Linda

Dear Marita,

This is so beautifully written. Your words of comfort and the prayer from you and Jean Houston, will daily be part of my prayers and meditation. We all feel, deeply within our being, we come from the same loving Source, and we must believe it's Creative power can open within us all, bringing forth great insights and gifts empowering us to come up with the solutions, not only to fix this dark, spilling oil into our waters, but to also look at the dark, spilling ways we continue to treat each other and this earth we inhabit.

Always I cherish your great wisdom and feel immense gratitude that you share it with all of us.

With much love,

Mary Linda

Hello Ashley,

Your message is so clear. "How can we as a community come up with some practical ways to push our society, ignorance, warts and all, in the right direction?"  It appears this is bigger than anyone knows what to do with now. It requires insights, ideas, and ways of thinking at a level of consiousness that is far evolved from the levels that created the horror we are now facing. The small percentage of humanity at these levels, sadly, aren't listened too. Most politicians and corporate entities are seeking ways to make money through more and more development, with very little emphasis on ways of sustaining the planet, for the many now inhabiting the earth....

I believe people all over the map now need to cry their voices.....I have been sending messages to my congress representatives through email and phone messages....we all need to take a  position like this, otherwise a few with wrong morals are going to dictate more of the same.....

But like you, I have family and friends too close to this disaster who are frightened and feeling helpless. Again, if we believe there is a higher form of energy, connecting all life, then we must come together through this higher current of vibration with prayers and intentions. We must believe that through us, the many, we will be given solutions to move into higher ways of living on this planet with each other. We must continue to know this directly in our very beingness.

I hold you and your family in my loving heart. We will overcome this....We will co-create our world where we can find our joy and love together.

With all my love,

Mary Linda