The Zen of Easter: "At the Crossroad of Yearning, a Seedling Breaks Through..."

 

The Zen of Easter

"At the Crossroad of Yearning, a Seedling Breaks Through…"

Ronda LaRue

April 2, 2010

• "What does it take, do you think, to shed your old conditions, old limitations, old self beliefs, and emerge into a new blooming potential? ...How do you find and follow your destiny? How do you heal, awaken and live your unique gifts in this world? The messages of Easter and springtime offer good pointers…"

I'm down in my meditation hut writing this morning and realize that this is the Jewish season of Passover. It is the time of the Spring Equinox. And it is Easter weekend in the Christian tradition, today being known as "Good Friday".  Forget for a moment whether you believe, like, dislike or agree with any particular religion or its dogma. Please don’t miss the perennial wisdom as a personal metaphor, pointing the way to your own self-healing insight!

Good Friday is a message about transformation. It is about breakthrough; about healing and coming into your true wholeness.  It is a message about how to find and follow your way…

We all yearn to find and fulfill our true potential. This urge is seeded within our very heart.  We express our seedling's deep yearnings in many ways:  in the desire for happiness, for healing self-love and inner peace, for meaning and purpose. Even our seeking to avoid pain through all the diversions and distractions and addictions of entertainment, are simply misunderstood attempts to sooth the yearnings of that seedling that rests in our heart, waiting to grow and become its true potential.

I invite you this Easter weekend, to take a moment to honor your life and it’s seasons.  Please take a moment to stop and step consciously into the unfathomable mystery of your own destiny… What is it? You’ll find your destiny-clue in the seeds of your hearts deepest yearnings.

Each of us is unique, with unique conditions, growing environments, and possibilities. And even in what may seem the “worst of soils”, we each in fact do have an utterly unique brilliance and blooming potential to find and to express… if we but learn our way!

How do you find and follow your destiny? How do you heal, awaken and live your unique gifts in the world? The messages of Easter and springtime are good pointers…

A Contemplation on Personal Healing Transformation; 

Ask Yourself this: 

"What does it take, do you think, to shed your old conditions, old limitations, old self beliefs, and emerge into a new blooming potential?"

We make the BIG mistake of thinking that to heal our angst and to create a happy whole life is somehow about getting rid of our problems and healing our wounds, so we can “HAVE” our good life.  Not SO!

Your specific life struggles and your unique wounds are the very ground conditions of your seed’s unique and brilliant potential!  These conditions (“good bad and ugly”) are part of your unique blooming… But it takes a new level of “seeing” (and being) to realize this!

(…Enter a contemplation of the seed of spring and the cross of Easter):

Want to know how to transform your life and live your life’s deepest meaning?  Here it is: 

Willing, Conscious Surrendering… 

To heal and transform your life has much more to do with what you are willing to see and courageously “set down”, than with accumulating insights, practices and identification of what blocks you!

Look to the seed:

It literally lays down its life as the seedling, to be broken open by the elements surrounding it, in order to emerge and spout into its true destiny…

Look to the cross of Easter:

What does it mean to lay down your life as it has been up until now; to hang on the cross(road) of unknowing; to find the center of that cross(road) – the still-point of the soul…and to realize, in such an attentive willing surrender, the resurrection of your true genius, purpose and light?

If you want to heal, transform and grow your life, see what it takes to lay down your life as you know it; to grow in your ability to surrender each moment into the unknown apex (center of the cross-road) that allows your yearning's innate wisdom to naturally breakthrough the hard seed-shell, sprout, blossom and shine, as your unique light.

With Blessings of Easter and Springtime,

ronda-larue

Postlude:  “OK, how do you willingly, consciously, surrender open”, you ask?  …Now THIS is a Question to Live you into Blooming! (impish springtime smile...)

A Contemplative Meditation on Renewal
(Poet: David Whyte. www.DavidWhyte.com)



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