Changing From The Inside Out

I don't know who created the image above. I just happened to see it on my Facebook news feed. I like it a lot as the message carries a lot of wisdom on how to ride through this change of times.

I can't change what's going on outside me. I can't change the thoughts and behaviours of haters and racists and all those corrupt politicians, for example.

But I can change my response and consciousness by asking: "What's going on inside me that perpetuate this? How did I create this on an unconscious level? In what role have I contributed to this mess the whole world is in now? What do I need to let go such that I could offer a response that is based on compassion and love instead of fear and hatred? What are the lessons that I need to learn from this? Whom do I need to forgive? What do I need to let go so that there's peace in me?"

These are examples of the questions you can ask yourself; questions that do not offer easy answers. For, the answers come, not from the intellectual and philosophical mind, but from a place of silence and meditation. They are questions that point to a change in consciousness in oneself; questions that help shift our perceptions of life, and brings us closer to understanding ourselves and our contributions to life around us. These are spiritual questions that change one's consciousness.

Ask them, meditate upon them, and wait patiently for insights to arise. The greatest gift we can offer right now to society is our willingness to go deep inside us and take full responsibility for our creations. Yes, we are the ones that is creating our reality. We are creative beings, living in a interrelated world.

Once we, one by one, acknowledge our contributions to the collective unconscious, and once we, one by one, let go of our unconscious patterns that created the mess in our world, society will change.

Oracle Reading for 12 January 2017

It's Full Moon today, and here, we have Mother and Baby unicorn basking under the soft, silvery light of the moon, enjoying their drink from a water pool.

Mother and Baby unicorn reminds us to connect with water today. It's now hot and dry in Malaysia, so this is a friendly reminder for us here to respect water, not to waste water, and to drink more water to nourish our body.

Water also symbolizes emotions. Perhaps this hot weather stirs up some kind of emotional upsets for you? If this is so, this card reminds you to keep calm and cool over things. Drink more fluids, take foods like fresh fruits and vegetables to bring down that fiery feeling inside.

Enjoy the nice cooling sensation of water washing through every cells in your body. For after all, we are water.

(The card above is pulled from Doreen Virtue's Magical Unicorns Oracle Cards)

Tumbling Into Existence

Here we go,
tumbling into existence.
Shaking and rolling,
crossing over the great divide of polarities.
Bruised knees,
Scarred elbows,
Our edges and corners knocked off,
Tilting this way,
and that way.

And so, we tumbled,
over and over.
Taken captive by a force...
Indescribable!
Loving it,
Hating it.
Oh! The craziness of it all!
Tumbling Into Existence.
- 8 January 2017.

The mandala above was completed on 19 Dec 2016 but I had difficulties relating to it then. And then on 8 Jan 2017, I finally understood it. It was an eureka moment, and the poem just wrote itself. Words came tumbling out just like that.

Tumbling Into Existence.

Changing Ourselves, Changing Our World

I was scrolling down my Facebook wall feeds, when the quote above caught my eye. It appeared at the right day and time. I was having a discussion with a Buddhist friend about the current situation in Malaysia and we spoke about how fruitless it was for people to wallow in negativity about our country.

My friend is the leader of a small Buddhist community in PJ. I immediately showed him the quote above, and then it was decided: I was to give a talk along the same theme in 2 Jan 2017 - a great start for the new year.

So, I gave a talk yesterday on "Changing Ourselves, Changing Our World". The essence of the talk was: we are all interconnected. And, that it is not an accident or some kind of haphazard design that we are born at this country, at this time and place, with our current government, with our parents... In short, we are at our current situation, not by mere accident, but for a reason. There is a karmic reason for this.

Each one of us, created this worldly situation together, in our past. That's why we are in this together, at our present time. And as we each take responsibility to change ourselves; to let go the stories, the patterns that is inside us that is creating the external problems, we change the world outside. Because we are interrelated; because we are in a huge web of life.

That's the summery of what I spoke about yesterday morning. A good start to this new year.