I invite you on a journey with a painted analogy that can spiral ad infinitum to clarify many Earthly and human situations.
Let’s picture
a vessel, a cauldron for the highest Alchemy. This cauldron is a colander at
the same time, and as we will find moving forward, it has the capacity to
open and close its holes as required. Each cauldron-vessel is uniquely built
and it’s creating and recreating itself in each NOW moment. The fabric of it has
been masterfully woven with craftsmanship and attention to detail. The holes of
it vary in shape, size and the color of their rims; if you pay attention, you can
join them in infinite different ways to form constellations, codes and images.
As with any
container, its usefulness resides in its emptiness; it’s when the cup is empty
that serves us to pour some hot, spicy tea in it. There’s beauty in the
emptiness, there’s room for countless possibilities to exist within that
emptiness. Let’s just play for a moment and enumerate what we could put in a teacup:
water, tea, coffee, alcohol, oil, vinegar, cereal, seeds, chocolate chips,
beads, earrings, rocks, buttons, a plant, shampoo, detergent, bubble mix, ice
cream…
Now, let’s
say this beautiful, unique vessel is our human self, and not just our present human
physical bodies, but also our emotional, mental and etheric bodies, a synthesis
of all our past and future lives in all planes and galaxies. Now, as easy as it
is to perceive and know the usefulness and value of the essential emptiness of the
multiple containers all around us, it seems that somehow we’ve been holding the
belief that full is the desired state –ALWAYS. Remember the apparently wise
premise “You have to see the glass half full”? Really? Is it always better half
full? Isn’t it at least sometimes way more useful for it to be empty so that we
can fill it with whatever suits us in the NOW? Or could we see the half empty
as a creative way to alchemize and contribute something new to whatever it is
the glass is half full at the moment?
Under the paradigm
we were born, we are modeled and encouraged to fill the amazing nature of our
emptiness with whatever we can grab: work, food, drugs, TV, news, opinions,
gossip, toxic relationships, worry, etc. However, as we embark ourselves in the
path of conscious evolution, we start finding messages such as “let go”, “release”,
“cleanse”, “forgive”, “clear”, etc., all of which imply an emptying of
ourselves, and this can be quite frightening, resulting in a stronger grip
paired with resistance. Sometimes we do the “pretend letting go”, that is when
we let go charged with anger, frustration and disgust, without realizing that
it’s precisely that strong charge of “good riddance” which holds whatever it is
we think we are letting go in place. So while a lot of emptying and letting go
still happens at this stage, there is a lot we still hold on to. And that’s OK!
As we
continue our inner journey, we begin to get familiar with our Higher Self, our
Oversoul, our Heart, we start to awaken our knowing of the non-physical and
purest part of us that is pulsing to flow through us, as us. On the same path,
we reconcile with God, Source Energy, the Universe, and we begin to see the
beauty of creation out of the nothingness. And as we do that, we see
expressions and experiences of that Divine Creative Spark within our very human
experience: the joy of the blank slate, the pristine canvas before you paint,
the second you pick up a musical instrument, the moment you put on your apron
right before you come up with a new recipe…
When we get
familiar with the Loving, Nurturing, Gentle, Soothing, Benevolent nature of the unseen
that informs and shapes us, we begin to relax, for whatever we receive from
Source that is meant to add to our cauldron/colander will blend and integrate
within the vessel, without the need to hold on to anything, and the outpouring
will be an eternal new expression of our True Nature.
So, in
putting all of this together, I began to see myself as a living, breathing vessel/cauldron/colander
suspended within a magnificent and divine waterfall of liquid light endlessly
pouring through me. The more I open up, the more pristine and sweetly it flows,
informing the fabric of the vessel, evolving it, recreating it, and releasing
everything that is not required at each NOW. I realize that the beauty of my
emptiness is what allows me to cocreate with Source, for it is in the unique
way that this Divine flows through me, taking shapes and colors through the
patterns of my holes that my whole Self finds it most joyful expression. And it
is in this realization that releasing the fearful grip of lack, scarcity and
unworthiness becomes easy and graceful, for it is when the cup is empty that it
is fully overflowing and endlessly integrating the Nothingness and the
Everything-ness in the ever present NOW, in true Oneness.
