Valentines Day or The Love affair with the universe

Happy Valentines Day to you, Leendert, and thanks for sharing your virtual chocolate with us.

Your recurring theme of polarities is interesting- so simple and so complicated.

My radio appreciates your radio’s sense of irony  but is playing some John Hiatt this morning- ‘Slow Turning’  just to balance things out in radioland.

Celebrating the Higher Love that’s out there today and wishing you well,

Ann

Yeah. Thanks for the chocolate. I needed that. The theme of masculine and feminine expressions of Being keeps coming up in my life lately too. I guess one of them, the masculine or feminine, is usually dominant in a person, but we have to allow each to be expressed for our overall health. Peace, Kari

Thanks for mentioning Valentines Day!  I am so not one of those girls that sits and dreams about a hero on a horse with a 2 lb diamond rock ready for my finger or neck.

The jewelry commercials have been insane the last few weeks.  Some kind of rage builds within me when  I hear them.  Who said diamonds are a girls best friend?  I think it is very undermining to us females.  A diamond or any jewels for that matter are just shiny rocks.  Good grief!  My riding lawnmower is broke………if you want to spend alot of money honey……..buy me a new rider (is what I would say).

So speaking on the female/male thing…………some of us girls think about more than jewelry and make-up :-)

That said………………..I feel better………glad Valentines day is almost gone and the degrading commercials that come along with it.

Ok ….ok……..with that nerve out of the way. 


Shakti Gawain?

My mother is very very much into “mother” earth.  She spent years working for womans rights.  I think this is awesome however I think sometimes she goes overboard.  We were discussing the possibility  of God being a woman the other day.  But I don’t agree or understand I guess.  Because I don’t see God seperated into either female or male.  I see Him/Her/Them as ONE.  The ying and they yang in full circle.  Why would god need to be a gender anyway?  It is not like God is out their creating with a stamen is it?

Right because “God” is the Ultimate, Divine, Ground of Being, Formless, Indescribable Doao that cannot be daoed…and something that is Formless doesn’t “need” gender. I am with you on that, Harticulate. Also, I am “not one of those girls that sits and dreams about a hero on a horse with a 2 lb diamond rock ready for my finger or neck.”
(I will use every opportunity to enjoy good dark chocolate though!)
Seriously, those jewelry commercials make me sick too. Peace, Kari

Ok Leedert……..so Shakti Gawain is a writer?  What is the name of the book?

Is it funny to hear of a girl being agitated by Valentines Day?  I am irritated with most holidays because they have all ended up being so very “commercialized”…….so I think that is where some of my angst is coming from.

Kari………………..lol on the chocolate :-)

Valentinus was a Christian Mystic who was considered a Gnostic.  His understanding was that god is the unknown great source from which all matter ensues.  And that great source is LOVE.  I choose to not give the commercialism any energy by hating it.  They are simply misguided by greed and power.  But the power of LOVE is so much greater.  And I hope we can recognize and honor  the power of the feminine in us all -  that which nurtures, complements, contains  the mystery of birth and life AND really digs a good bit of chocolate.

I actually haven’t had any real chocolate all day, but was having figurative chocolate with you all. :-)

Yes we are indeed all one.  The Great Turning, as Rumi is translated.  I think for the past couple hundred years we have developed this yang/male capacity to a great degree.  The ability to focus into, to differentiate one aspect of the ocean from the other.  It has brought us to some immense understanding - into the smallest and into the largest.  If we didn’t have that, we would never have discovered that the earth is round.  Nor would we have discovered that there is no There there in an atom.  We are living in a vast ocean of dark matter.  That’s where the feminine comes in.  ascknowledging the background, the context from which all our specificity is born. 

Deeper than yin/yang is Tao Te.  “Of the things we can discern yin and yang are the deepest. “  But yin/yang reside within Te the oneness.  Where does that oneness come from?  the Tao, the great unknown unformed potential, or god, if you must.