My Dangerous Beauty

This is a favorite passage of mine from Jean Houston’s book ‘The Search for the Beloved’

Human Loving Extended Through The Beloved

Father Kelsey emphasizes that contact with the Divine Lover is never complete until some other human being feels more loved and cherished as a result of that contact. In 1975, I helped to organize and chair a conference at the United Nations at which Mother Teresa of Calcutta was one of the guests. A tiny woman bristling with joyous energy, she seemed so open and available that I found myself asking her:

“Mother, how does it happen that you are able to do so much, and why are you in this state of joy?”

“My dear,” she said, “it is because I am so deeply in love.”

“But Mother, you’re a nun!”

“Precisely,” she said. “I am married to Jesus.”

“Yes, I understand, you’re married to Jesus. All nuns are.”

“No, you don’t understand,” she countered. “I really am. I am so in a state of love that I see the face of my Beloved in the face of the dying man in the streets of Calcutta. I see my Beloved in the day-old child who’s left outside the convent, and in the leper whose flesh is decaying; and I can’t do enough for my Beloved! That is why I try to do something beautiful for God.”

If you’ve been hurt and your heart is burdened by the pain of ‘unlove’, then your breasts may be a little sad.  In the female deer exercise heart energy moves through your breasts and hands and helps to move stagnate energy from them, but you could also choose to embrace an unburdening of your breast practice.

Take the time to sit comfortably, or to assume a tadasana pose or a chi generation pose (your choice).  Bring your intentions and presence to the moment and allow your feeling sense to reach out to the rain of grace.  Open your heart to what is, no matter what it’s current feeling state - let there be tears if that is your heart truth.

Raise your hands to cup your breasts and feel your breasts and feel the love that has flowed through them into the mouths of your babies and lovers.  Feel the abundance of life force that flows through your breasts. 

Feel the hurt and withhold in your breasts and allow the life force energy to swirl in a golden glow and to radiate through the pathways of love in your breasts.  Feel your breasts swelling with love and joy, as if they go up a full cup size.

Move towards a tonglen style of meditation where you breath in golden energy and exhale stagnate heavy emotional energy - so that it may be recycled in the universe, as all energy needs to move.