Welcoming the Opening Blossoms in the Eye of the Storm

May 7, 2011 Written by arden

Welcome all into the garden. Thank you all so much for your warm replies to these sharings about the world of the Garden of Tranquility, and how all of us can “step into the serenity”(watch for the new guided meditation cd ‘Step into Serenity” that will appear in the “Dream Market” section of this website later in May) that is present within us and around us, even in the most obviously challenging and difficult times that we experience.

 There is something that is in the very fiber of our beings, amidst stress and worry, even at the most stormy times, that is I believe in the very heart of the life force within us. It is in our cells, we might say, in a place of both calm and vitality, where within our deepest cells there is a kind of “knowing” that we hold within us the answers for peace, for connection to ourselves and the world around us, for happiness. In a prior article addressing the “snakes in the garden”- that metaphor for that which troubles us and disturbes the beauty and tranquility of our world, of our dreams, we began to look at the ways we may all join together in supporting each one of us and our world community as a whole, in growing the lush and awesome potential of life in its fullest expression of health, delight, loveliness.

 Now we return to the same question in a different way- now we address the whirlwinds that may surround us, confuse us, hurt us. These may relate to our relationships, or work lives, our creative lives, our safety, our dreams. How do we maintain a sense of stability in the face of this? How can we hold or restore a sense of well-being? Even more, how can we be present to the vibrant heart within us, that spirit which wishes to open like a flower, fully expressed in poetic beauty, that essence of love, that joy in “being”? Through the tools that are around us and within us I believe we may find that “calm in the center of the storm” where we can virtually place our most cherished parts of ourselves, our views of what our world may become, those flowers that are in our garden. Like a protective shield of this precious growth and presence of life that we are, may we call upon prayer, whatever that may mean for us. May we draw on meditation, on visual art, on music, on dance, on writing, on singing to find that safe and sacred place within from which we draw peace, within which we rediscover the potential of our true healing and creative and loving nature. From pausing to look at the sky, to visit the sea, the mountains, to touch stones, grass, crystal,or cotton; to smell new grass, or snow, or roses; to taste the sweetness of grapes or chocolate or the tang of lime- all senses may draw us back to a deeper sense of the joy of being alive. We may heal and return to the core of our most loving nature by reaching our to help another human being- to lend a guiding hand, listen to another’s heartache or be present to their dreams; to give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty- there we may feed our own spirits and quench the thirst for our desire to be whole and present to the world, to ouselves.

 As this website grows and our sharing does, and as we continue our conversation about the deepest needs we have as human beings, I am confident that each of us will individually and together we can tend to our collective healing, grow our serenity, and even in the midst of the most difficult times, tend to that inner garden and the larger garden that is our vast and wonderful world to the the most unimaginably heavenly lives. Let us support each other, let us create those moments of solitary renewal and of communal sharing that will make this happen.

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