The Energy Behind the Form

"The key to understanding and fully appreciating all life is to see the extraordinary in the ordinary and the ordinary in the extraordinary," said the old sage. "Go into any hospital and watch a surgeon performing miracles with his knife and we are left in awe of his abilities. The same person does these operations over and over and for him they ordinary everyday occurrences. As very young children we can see the extraordinary in many situations, our first cup of coffee; a new ball; a new bike; the list is endless. We become too trapped in our habits to see the magic in the mundane. I hope in our time together that you can once again see with new eyes, eyes that reveal more than we have come to expect."
    These were the words that greeted Conway, my character in the 33rd Sage, as he wiped the sticky sleep from his eyes.
    "Try today to see the newness in everything that you do. Reach for the magic in everything. If you believe, it will be there for you."
    Rising from his bed, he felt the stiffness in his body. This was something he had experienced for many years, but these days he took little notice, relieving it with a warm shower. He had pictures of rust in the joints and the water was the oil that allowed the joints to move freely. What caused the stiffness? He wasn't sure, but it was probably a build up of lactic acid that required some movement or heat to move it from the joints. He started to think about how the blood was flowing more quickly through the body; now he was moving; through the mechanical heart that kept on beating even while he slept; how the body was in a continual state of dying and rebuilding.
    Chung Fu was right; he had forgotten how to see the magic in the world around him.
    Chung Fu handed him a cup of coffee. The smell was heightened by the newness of it. Had a coffee ever smelt this good; it was the smell and the sharp bitter taste, which first drew him to the beverage, but after so many years and so many coffees; the smell and the taste were something that he had religiously every morning?
But this was different. This was new. He held the white porcelain cup and imagined the time it would have taken and the care to mould this cup into its present shape. His picture was of an old, skilled artisan who put love and care into everything he made. The key to his livingness was to give the best of himself in the making of every article. He could also feel presence of the artist in the fine texture of the cup. The first sip of coffee took Conway to the hills where it was grown. He had become a coffee bean waiting to be picked. Life was a continuum of shifting focus. What became habitual was ordinary, and what was new was filled with magic; by changing his focus ever so slightly he could once again see the magic in the mundane.
    He hoped he would never take anything for granted again, but knew that he would. The difference was that every now and again he would re-experience the extraordinary in the ordinary.
    Even as Old Chinese spoke, Conway watched the magic as the voice came from his lips, words which he understood. What an extraordinary thing the voice was, and the words and language it brought forward. The old man’s voice, his words, were English but with more than a hint of Chinese inflection. Conway watched as the old man’s mouth changed, mirroring the vowels that came forward. His old face lined and marked, changing to express his thoughts and feelings; his arms and hands moved when expressing a point of view or a flourish to add drama to a sentence. The closer he watched the more he could see. The creases in Chung Fu’s face opened and closed, as if they were also mouths offering their own words; his hands forever moving, as he reinforced his stories, creating paintings in the air. Watching just his hands you could get a sense of what he was saying, if not the exact words. When he made a strong emotional point, his hand would cut the air like a knife and when the words described something that was closed off, his fists tightened, strangling whatever blood was left in the veins on the back of his hands.
    The more Conway looked, the more he could see. Beyond the arm waving, he could see the lines and liver spots on the back of Chung Fu’s hands. The deeper Conway looked the deeper he fell. Chung Fu’s whole body was sending out signals. The voice was one level of communication but beyond there were many others, levels we do not even consciously think of. Below the physical level was the level of the aura, where there was even more to be experienced. He had not seen an aura before, but here in front of him were clouds of colour wrapping themselves around the old man's body. As the old man’s mood changed so did the colours: one minute surrounded by blue and violet, the next swirls of red and orange raced around like stairs up a lighthouse. Beyond the colours there was something deeper, more subtle, the originator of the electrical charge that surrounded the body. Its origin was so subtle he had to close his eyes to be able to sense it; his eyes were too gross to sense anything so subtle. With his eyes closed, Conway could feel the energy. He tried to feel what it was telling him, but he could not get any words, only a feeling of one whom was living his life’s purpose. He opened his eyes in the hope of seeing the feeling, but was greeted with swirls of emotional colour encapsulating the old man. He pulled back, the colours disappeared, replaced by the grinning face of Chung Fu.
    "You have seen the energy behind the form. No one can trick you any more. If you focus like you just have, then everyone will be open to you, like a book waiting to be read. Remember to look for the energy beyond the form. First, you must still yourself. Put yourself in a position of none judgment and then allow your own inner sight to lead you to where it knows to go. Do not try to force it, because then it will be coloured by your expectations... It doesn't just have to be with humans that you can use this technique. It is just as successful to use them with animals or plants or rocks. Allow yourself to become an empty space; this will allow the perceptions of the energy behind the form to become one with you, and through your own feelings you will get a strong sense of what is being given out by the other party, whether they be, human, animal or plant. The whole of life is interrelated; by becoming the pause between the notes you can tap into all God's creations."

Today, stop for a moment and experience the energy behind the form. See, do, touch, think or feel something in a way that you have never experienced it before. My old Chinese teacher taught me how to put a molecule of my own feelings into a situation, so that I could feel it for for what it is rather than what it appears to be. This feeling tone allows you to experience the energy beyond the form. At first it will feel silly and uncomfortable, but persevere and soon you will have the ability to see the energy behind any situation. I have used it when I have met people for the first time or when I am in a new situation or walking down the streets of a town or city I have never been to before. When the feeling returns with a negative response I avoid the person or situation. When I get a positive response I know that I can easily move forward.

Of all the techniques that my old Chinese teacher taught me, this was certainly one of the best. Imagine being able to send a molecule of yourself into any situation and knowing if it was appropriate to move forward. If I had known this when I was younger I would have never made some horrible mistakes, such as buying timeshare and many others I would not admit to in these blogs; for you never knows who might be reading them.

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The Emperor's Garden

The Emperor's Garden

In Old China, the emperor we have talked of before, returning from his experience in the forest of Caan, gathered his court around him and said that he would build a new palace to celebrate the livingness of all things. The palace was built and it was simple, but it had the grandeur of the mountains, of the forest and of the streams. He wanted a garden beyond all gardens, so he wanted the best gardener in all the empire.

Word went forth from his palace and soon they heard of a personage who knew the trees, who talked to the birds and insects, who was one with the four seasons. The emperor went to him and asked him to construct a garden. The gardener came and looked over the area. He selected a place and gathered his cloak around him and sat down on the Winter Solstice.

He watched the snow, and he watched the snow melt. He watched the winds and it's pattern on the landscape; he watched the spring and the rains. He watched the effect of a typhoon off the sea; he watched no sun and too much sun; he watched the hotness of the summer and the bleakness of the fall; he watched the ways the birds and insects lived and visited. The Fall Equinox came. At Winter Solstice he said, "I am ready to construct your garden; it will take one more year."

For three months until the Spring Equinox, he sat at the four corners of the garden, and he dedicated each and every part of the garden to the magnificence of the Living Spirit in all things.

In spring he began to construct. He planted trees from all over the empire; the jujube, the quince, the pine, the plum, the cherry. He planted grass and flowers, he made gardens of rocks and water, and he built ponds and bridges.

In spring the following year, he asked the Emperor to walk in the garden. He pointed out the way the water flowed, showing that the tree would grow, and the grass and the flowers would grow, and when the sun shone through the branches at a certain time of the day, there would be a design perfectly upon the ground. He showed him the way that the water would flow, and there would never be a flood, even in the greatest rain he showed him the way plants would come forth, and in the fall how the leaves would fall, not in large bunches, but in perfect patterns, and because the garden grew just rightly, the wind would flow through it and remove the leaves completely. The snow would fall and make designs on the garden of the things that are livingness in nature: rocks constructed so that when the snow was upon them they would reflect the living element; the patterns of the trees, with snow upon them, like ancient giants protecting the palace.

He took the emperor through the garden during each season, and finally said, "As long as you love this garden and as long as you love all who come in it, there will never be a pattern the same. Each year the leaves will fall a different way, but it will be a true pattern, one that you will know.. The snow will fall differently and leave different designs, perfectly geometric."

The gardener bowed to the emperor and went away. From that day on, at any time, the emperor could walk through his garden and he would never see the same design, the water flowing the same way, the leaves falling or growing the same way, or the birds nesting and landing in the same pattern, or the insects in the garden. He had an example of the perfection of nature.

Peace

Chung Fu

What is your garden like? Does it follow the beauty of the seasons or in accord with nature? What about the garden within? It is as easy as making the journey from the Winter, to the Spring and onto the Summer and finally the Fall when you must cut away what you no longer need in preparation for the next cycle to begin.

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Elements part 21 - Earth Transcript

Earth Transcript

The Earth Element is a very creative being, having the essence, or the alignment, with the mineral, with the plant kingdom, and even with the animals. They are your geologists, your horticulturists, your zoologists. They are the ones that like working with the stones, animals, plants. They are the ones that understand and like to deal with the livingness of things. But you will find, within their personal lives, they are dealing with the rejuvenation and with constant evolution within this existence. The Earth Element deals with a high creativity within music. But because of this, again, they will deal with the physiological. Many of the great musicians, artists, deal with homosexuality, deal with the inability to maintain any kind of monogamous relationship. Many have difficulty within the financial field - a part of the Earth Element.

The creativity of the Earth is always held in awe, for they bring forth most of the beauty of our world; and in it men like what they see. They are pulled and drawn to it. But within it, they find depression, and many time they will find that, if they get involved with the artist, it is the artist's life that sells his art, more than the art itself. Because of the evolution of the trials and tribulations that are going through, their leaves are falling consistently. They are cutting away old wood, but most do not cut away any. 

Financially, they deal with great trauma, great difficulties within the physiological and sexual sense, having problems in regard to sexuality and identifying themselves mostly with their creativity. The greatest artists are able to find a balance of materialism, and their sexuality usually becomes a celibate element within that area. They find that within their creativity they can replace the male, or the female. They can have an orgasm within the creativity that they place forward, whether music, whether art, or wether plant or animal; and they find their life involved within a celibate fine art creativity. There have been many of those; and they not only feel and see what you are but they are able to express it from beyond your perception, no matter what the element you are.

They have the ability to work with plants. Plants will respond; plants will find beauty with them. Plants will feel not only their warmth and loving, but will respond completely and fully. And, in many ways, as a young child would respond to the mother, a plant responds to an Earth Element. The same with Animals. They would feel the affinity of the Earth Element and be drawn to them because of their strength and because of their alignment. The mineral kingdom would feel it also. The gems, earth itself, would renew upon their hand. Horticulture, biology, botany - all of these areas exude their creativity.

Within music, they have the ability to use music to play the seasons - play the music of the fall, of the winter, of summer and spring. They have the understanding of the livingness of things and can bring the flow within it. They have the gift of basically being able to bridge the gap of the three lower kingdoms and know the privateness that will usually be their world.

Without the Earth Element, this world would be very boring. There would be a great difficulty in feeling a baseness, or creativity itself. This does not mean that the other elements do not have it; but it means that this element deals with it the most. But, because it does, it's greatest sorrow is sexual, physiological and, material.

The Earth Element over Air deals with creativity, but deals with it ver logically. They will have the tendency to have the ability with good finances. They will have the ability to see it and be very money-oriented within their creativity. The true Earth Element will create, no matter what, and not care; but the Earth/Air will create, wondering where the money is coming from and knowing where every cent will be. The Earth/Air will also be dealing in the physiological sense with how to deal with their own energy - how to deal with it in regards to others. They will be greatly concerned with that. But within that projection, they would be those that are the film-flam artist, those that can sell you a dead water buffalo. They have those abilities. They sell themselves easily. They have the creativity going out of them. Their weakness is the fact that they are misers, what you world would call Scrooges. Money can be their greatest difficulty.

The Earth over Fire deals specifically with sexual, having difficulty with their sexual self - having a tendency, whether male or female, of feeling that everything within this world is fertile for them. They will treat it that way, seeing not only what is called double standard, but triple and quadruple. They will be dealing with the physiological and sexual self and they will not care about money. There will be money within their life, but it will not be of much concern. They will have a tendency to have it around them all the time and in great quantities, but it seems never to stay for very long. Their strength deals with the ability, in the highest part of their creativity, of bringing the strength of creativity of the earth, the plant, and of the animal. They have an ability in spirituality to communicate to those elements. They have the ability of mediumship within that area, of communicating a spiritual idea.

They are Water in the opposite: they can deal with emotion. They can be greatly overwhelmed, but it is usually dealing specifically with anger - very difficult for them - anger of things that are around them and the way things do not go. They will have a tendency to be very outward and, in many ways, be very violent. The Earth Element is a violent individual. They are the ones that, in regards to expressing themselves, will throw off violence. Rather than withdraw, they will hit. They are the ones that usually are what you may call in the fighting. They are the ones you will find in those areas of great accident and catastrophe. They are your boxers. They are those that deal with the cruelty of most sport, of those sports that men get together in to see how much harm they can inflict upon another, or even women.

These are the Earth Elements, dealing specifically with the baseness, with the foundations, with the roots. And you will find within them more fundamentalism, religious and faith-believing. They will believe something and they will die believing it, no matter what. And everyone who does not believe it is going to go someplace where it is warm, or is not going any place at all. They will have a tendency to project fanaticness within religion so much that others cannot stand to be around them. But within that, they create a strength of those that are with them, a strength that allows them to evolve from that pattern. As they deal later they can step above fundamentalism into a creativity of self; but that step is hard.

The true Earth Element is dealing with Fire in the male sense; the Earth Element female will be drawn to the Fire Element because of the strength and the power and the leading, being able to tell them how to do it, when to do it, and when they can. They are the epitome of a servant-type situation.

The Earth male, pulled to the Fire female, will usually be developed within great creativity, and the Fire female will be their manager, or the person that is pushing them for greater creativity and greater beauty. This can be a good matching.

Earth to Earth: they usually wear themselves out either in getting money or in sexual relationships. You know many Earth to Earth individuals that marry within your world. They are the ones steeped in poverty and famine, a part of their experiential pattern in the evolution of this plane.

Earth to Water: an Earth female to a Water male can have some strength. Water male will be trying to play down their emotion, and so the Water can bring life to the Earth female. And they will be drawn to that energy or that softness; but they will have a tendency to rule the situation, even more so than the Fire female, for they will rule it by the use of sex, or the misuse of money.

The Earth man and the Water woman will have great difficulty, for the Earth man will not be able to stand that water in the flooding of his earth. This is very poor and ver seldom has great link, because the female will be dealing with the emotion of water, and they will be dealing with trying to maintain a balance spiritually, and the Earth Element is not concerned with that in the beginning stages. They are more concerned with the plant, the animal, an pd the mineral, not within ethericness.

The Earth female to the Air male can be a good relationship. This can have strength, in this one way: where the Air male is so involved with inventiveness and creativity that they do not know what they are doing half of the time; then the Earth female can be the grounder, and keep them on the ground. A Water female would have a tendency just to withdraw and cry a lot because they could not communicate with them. The Fire Element would basically let them do their own, but would not find any stability. They would find that the Earth Element would be their home. They would have a tendency to take them for granted. The Earth Element would develop a home and would be, in many ways, somewhat slavish. If it is an Earth male and an Air female - you will find very few of these, for the Air female does not want to have that kind of basing. They do not what to have that kind of serving. They will usually be celibate, or very deeply involved with their own maidship.

The Earth Element is a diverse element because they are the rejuvenators. Fire being the birth and creator of new life. Water being what you may call the fertilizer, the refreshment, the spring. Summer - Air - being the essence of new life, of harvesting. The Fall, of pulling things together, of getting rid of the old. Of letting the dying go. Each of you has lifetimes, more than one, within the Earth Element. It is not an easy life, physiologically. The Earth Element, in the female sense, very seldom will have what you may call an average weight. They will either be very slim, or very fat and stout - very few in-betweens. The male will be dealing with slenderness, physiologically to deal with their body. Their problems will come with their feet and and with the spinal cord. The female will be dealing with the inner organs and glands.

The mineral of the Earth Element, being green, is specifically different from the others. It's strength is the smoky crystal to wear - not to use, but to wear - because they are so earthy. They do not want to project their earthiness, and the smoky crystal keeps that in. They can wear the emerald. If they do they are usually dealing with a lot of creativity, the creativity in art or art form. They should not wear blue. It will cause them great difficulties within the stone element.

The music - the music within your world you know - has two phases. It is what you would call soul, the blue, the folk, the earthy-type music. Within the classical, surprisingly enough, it deals with those areas of Mendelssohn, of Telemann, of Handel, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian - these areas they can deal with. You will find that the Earth Element is an excellent pianist, likes to basically use it; but they are better in the musical area in regards to the instruments that they can put a lot of energy into. The Earth Element has creativity in the highest, dealing with evolution each and every moment of their life. It is a lifetime of challenge, of dealing with material, physiological, but also spiritual within the kingdoms.

Peace.

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Parable of Healing

Parable of Healing

In Old China, the physician's role was to make sure that all kept well, for a physician was paid only if those for whom he was responsible were well.

One day the physician walked through the village and saw a man yelling at another man. They were basically, very, very angry at one another and the physician asked to speak to one. He walked away with him and said, "What are you angry about?" 

The man said, "He told me he did not like the way I grew my crops." The physician said, "Do not get upset at what someone else does to you. Think of the person as saying what they believe, even though it may not be true.

The physician knew how anger at people, for doing things that you allow, cause restrictions of muscles in the back. This causes great difficulty in the shoulders and legs and can cause great weight gain. It is important to know, but the physician would not tell his charge.

He walked on and saw a man sitting dejected in front of his house and asked, "What is your problem?" The man said, "I do not know which way to go. I have been offered a large sum of gold for my house. I do not know whether to sell it and move to the seaside, or go the imperial city, or whether I should keep it. Oh, I do not know what to do."

The physician said, "Relax. Do not let frustration overwhelm you. If an opportunity comes and you hesitate, you are saying you do not know what to do. Decisions create frustration, which is not what you need. If you decide to Gotham way, you can be disappointed, and you will say, 'See? I chose the wrong way.'

"If you relax and tell the person who has offered you the gold you will think about, or feel what should be done, and do not worry about everything else, everything falls into place. If you worry about what to do and when, then you will not know whether to go."

The physician knew that frustration causes agony in individuals. He knew that frustration can cause cancer or great difficulty in the digestive system. It can cause problems in seeing and hearing and also within the bladder.

"If you let things flow," he told the personage, "and do not y to make a decision, you will be always where you should be."

"But what if the personage said if will give the gold by tomorrow, and I must answer."

"By tomorrow,  if you do not feel certain that you should, do not go."

He walked on and he saw a woman running from her home screaming and yelling. He stopped her and asked her what was wrong. She said, "There is a rodent in my house!" He said, "Do not be scared of the rodent. They will not harm you."

"But they bite and cause great sickness."

"Who said they cause great sickness?"

"My mother."

"Come, let us look at the rodent."

They walked in and he said, "If you would clean your house, and have no food upon the floor, you would have nor rodents."

He knew that fear causes heart disease, arthritis, and rheumatism. It causes circulatory problems and even cerebral hemorrhage.

He walked on, and hear a man saying to another, "You are not any good; you are terrible." He took him away and he said, "Why do you judge him so violently?"

"Because that is what he is. He is terrible!"

"Why do you not let him be what he is and not get excited over it."

"Because what he is is affecting the whole village."

"How?"

"We all know that he is bad."

"Who said he was bad?"

"It is known."

Individuals can only be bad if society says they are bad. Judgement of other people can cause flu and colds, cause throat irritation and great discomfort of stomach and body. The physician in Old China had to keep his personages well.

What is the physician in your world doing?

Old Chinese

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Elements part 20 - Air Transcript

Air Transcript

The Air Element is the one, basically, deals within this earth plane, in a karmic sense, with their mentalness and their intellect. This element, more than any other, is in conflict with the logical, the scientific, the subconscious. Liking and eating, and many times marrying the subconscious, or what is called the ego, they delight within the energy force that is created. One of the things that the Air Element does is see and feel. They are in essence, wanting to see why something works - but to see why it works to its nth degree, having difficulty accepting that it just works. They are always in the midst of decisions, experiment. They are your debaters. They are the ones that have a tendency to overshadow your political scene. They are the ones that intellectually must project themselves and, in any way, will seek and look upon a form of following. They are the ones that find the cause, hold on to it, and take it for the rest of their lives, whether it is polo tics, or prisons or sex.  They are those to think and not feel. They say that they are against poverty because it is not good, but they think it out, they logical it, they look into the logicness of it. They cannot deal with the feeling. Very few of the true Air Element ever meet a spiritual project. Many are involved within science, within psychology and the medical field; most that deal in these areas you will find Air Element. If they are not Fire, they are an Air. They find themselves rooted into patterns that they cannot get out of. Of all the elements, it is easier for them to conservative in grand, to believe something from the time they are taught it to the time they die.

Very few, very few within your world are true Air, in the center. Most are fringes, Air/Water or Air/Earth. Not many in the center, for there are not many who are, in essence, succinctly and fulfillingly in the logic to the nth degree. But there are some, and those you find will be your recuses, your hermits. Those that cannot express themselves, those that, basically, withdraw, to think, to read, to write. Even though your world has many monks and hermits, it is almost, at this time within your world, to be a mystic or a recluse and not be an Air Element. They have a tendency to think rather than feel. Because of that, you find that these orders are lacking in the freedom of self-discipline. Your world, in the Western tradition - in the Americas, the European continent, the Asian or Russian area - most men are Air Elements. And it is the Air Element who has a tendency to rule, to influence, because people have fear of the logical; or, basically, of the individual who can prove and throw words time and time again; or who tries to prove their point through argument and through infusion.

The Air Element male in the center can only get along with a Fire female. Perhaps a little, to a degree, with the Air female. The center Air female is as rare as a water buffalo in the city. You will be every fortunate if you meet one in your lifetime. But those that you would meet could only marry an Air Element male - if they marry at all. The Air Element is, basically, dealing with the fringes, with water and earth. Consider, the Air Element that is dealing with Water: Air is yellow, Water is blue, which makes green. They have many of the same reactions of the Earth Element.

The Air Element male with Water will be dealing, basically, not only with their thinking, but they will try to thinkingly correct their material and sexual life. And because they will think about their sexual life, it will be sparse and there will be a great difficulty in interrelating. The female within this area will, basically, be a female that is extremely strong, but is dealing a lot with materialism - dealing, specifically, with always hunting money, trying to find it, trying to think of way to get more of it. Not necessarily aligned with the physical, or great difficulty in physiological, may be using it to get money; but, basically, that is their area. The Air Element male over Water, in a highest perspective, can have a metaphysical view and deal within metaphysics: going beyond science: going beyond the logical, written; being able to see and perceive because of their technicality, the beginnings of the universe.

But it is sad, again, that those that you find, within your world. That are Air Element males, that learn to use the metaphysical and to go beyond it, are as rare as a water buffalo in the city. Those that usually reincarnate in that area will never hear the words of Old Chinese. Not because they are lower, but because it is their evolution. Those that are Air over Water can begin to work with their scientific approach, but dealing with the elements of earth, mineral and animal in a scientific, or in a logical way. They are to involve and to work within the livingness of that element, putting some of the softness of water, some of the feelings of water, out. The Air Water male can deal a lot with the Water Fire female. There is a good strength there. The Air/Water male can deal with the Fire/Earth female, basically needing that balance, that strength, but that earthiness. They have the ability, within the fulfillment, to understand. The great alchemists were Air over Water, for they used the earth, the minerals, the metals.

The Air over Earth becomes Fire in their feelings, much like the Fire Element. They will always be concerned with people loving them and not feeling loved, more so than the Fire Element. They will not have the confidence. They will be, basically, concerned with what other people think of them. A part of the Earth feeling, but the logicalness. Someone can say they do not like them and they will be able to logically figure out why they do not like them and why no one else would like them. But the Fire part would bring obstinance, will make them hard, and make them stick to something, even to the point of ridiculousness. They are the ones that you want to lead armies, for they will stay at the head, no matter what is fighting them; but they usually would not be found there. The Air over Earth deals specifically with beginning to learn their energy and their strengths too.

The Air over Earth male - here is where you find your politicians. Here is where you find those that are dealing with the great controversies of your world. Free your world from disease, from poverty, from the negativity, and they will carry it and they will lead it. They will seem Fire but they will have the stick-to-it-ness, or the mental capacities, logically thinking and trying to scientifically prove every step. The true Fie Element will not care if it scientifically does not prove. He knows he is right anyway. And the Earth that is, basically, is more Air is constantly trying to prove what they are doing. The Air that has Earth has abilities to deal with leading, but not in the forerunner. They are supporters. They are the ones that can do what needs to be done. They are the best supporters for a Fire Element. You will find them as assistants, as the second or or third in command. They will, basically, be the organizers or the generators behind the scene.

If they are in the forefront, they will be there but there will be a strength, or they will working under the light of someone else. They deal consistently with learning to be accepted by people, and try to project themselves there. Most female actresses are in this line. Vanity is this, but, utilizing this, they can express and facade like no other; and they will make the best actresses. That is why they can make the best politicians. Dealing with this as Amalie, their highest perspective will be a supporting role; or they will be an actor, giving forth energy, entertaining. They will those that are always known as the serious actors, as the serious projectors, as the serious entertainers. The female in this, the same. The seriousness, dealing with the vanity of self. But, being, entertainers, they are the ones that bring escape to others, into worlds that are real, or unreal but have reality. Those that are involved in this can be a part of one, or two, or three, and they are good balance, for they bring humour; but they bring it a flair that not many have.

In their mating they deal well, the female with the Fire Element male, the male with the Fire Element female. They deal fairly well with the Water/Fire female, the Earth, but the female will usually deal with every male within a lifetime, never usually being monogamous.

The Air Element is the most misunderstood. It is the hardest. It is the individual that has the most to give, and they will try to give it forth for others to live off. But it will be hard for them to realize that, without the winter and without the spring, they could not be; and, without the earth ....live. They are what is called the individuals that, basically, stand up but do not know how to use their power in the higher, positive way. They will struggle with that. The female Air over Earth will have a tendency towards hypochondria, as will the male Air over Water. They will find things wrong with them that no one has even thought could be wrong with a human being. The male Air/Earth will not be hypochondriac; they will usually not have time for that. The female Air over Water will, basically, be dealing with difficulties with the female organs, physiologically. They will also have malfunctions of the thyroid that will lead to dryness and toughness of skin, and are the ones that are very wrinkled in old age.

The Air Element is the hurricane: blows a great wind, will cause great damage to all areas. They will tear and rant and rave, because no one would listen to them. Like your hurricanes, or typhoons, or tornados, you can warn people that they must protect themselves, that they must be in tune, and they will not listen. So, a hurricane will come and an Air Element will come and cause chaos in their life. They will wonder 'Why is this person trying to think me to death - trying to, basically, deal with me in the way they are?' those that deal with Air, deal with a heavy spiritual karma, for they are the most misunderstood; and, because of that, they are the most destructive in the way they deal.  

It is the Air Element that created atomic energy. It is the Air Element that is a logistic; that creates the plans of war; that creates machines; that invents and is the scientist; that dissects the subconscious mind; that does not believe in mysticism and, in religion, is very difficult.

The music of the Air is forceful. It can be like a breeze; but it can be like the thunder: Wagner, Khatchaturian, Tchaikovsky, Liszt. Or it can be softness. It can be the softness of Handel, or Mendelssohn, or Debussy. But they will not deal with it consistently. They will seek the classical; and if they are pulled to one musical instrument, it will be the reeds, organ, flute: those that use air. They can find great energy within the organ or within the flute or the air or wind instruments.

Their stone is clear crystal, or the champagne crystal; but, like the true Air Element, a champagne crystal is as rare as a water buffalo within this city. They deal with a lot of energy and power. They can deal with it consistently and fully, and the stone that will help them center and feel calm is the champagne crystal, or is amber interlaced with moonstone. It can calm them more than any other.

Air Elements are interspersed throughout your world. They are the thinkers, the scientists, the logical ones. They are the ones that are, basically, the computers. Their strength is not all in one area. Their is not one country that is strong in what they are. There is not one that is overstrong. This country (England) is very strong within Air Element, extremely strong. France is another - France with a little tinge towards Earth, but it is there. America, it has a lot of it, but it is offset by much Earth. The Air Element becomes prominent and there are many of them at the end of a cycle, just before the fall, the retiring and the renewal.

There was a sage that was sitting under a plum tree, and a student walked by and said, 'Sage, why cannot we fly like the birds? Why cannot we fly through the air like moth or butterfly?'

The sage said, 'Why can we not? We can.'

The student laughed and said, 'Let me see you.'

The sage said, 'I just did.'

And the student said, 'No, you were sitting there.'

The sage said, 'No, I was not. I was flying. I was a bird.'

The student said, 'I saw you sitting there. You did not move; you were stable. You were man sitting there; you did not fly.'

Then the sage said, 'You will never see anything fly that you cannot believe will fly.'

Peace.

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Parable of Inner Peace

Parable of Inner Peace

In Old China long ago, a sage was sitting under a plum tree. A student approached and said, "Where should I go to find peace?"

The sage said, "What peace are you looking for?" 

The student said, "Peace from all the corners of this world. Peace from the Emperor's raids on our religion. Peace from money and food worries. I want to have that kind of peace."

The sage said, Sit with me under this tree and you will find peace." the student sat down and after five days the student said to the sage, "It is peaceful here. You have freedom from all the earthly things because you have placed yourself above them, but I find it boring." 

The sage said: "What is boring?"

The student said, "I have nothing to do.

And the sage said, "Then go out into your world until you are ready for peace within. Peace within can only be when you step back and watch the world go by, not when you are involved in it. By watching it go by, you are within it - for you know when to associate. And because of the peace that you have, those that need that peace will stop at your plum tree."

May your plum tree be as peacefully as you want. Blessings and peace to you all.

Old Chinese

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Elements part 19 - Water Transcript 3

Water Transcript Three

Now, the female Water Element is learning to deal with their emotion, and they have to learn, with fear, whatever it is, in any area - they can be afraid of the authority of money, or the authority of poverty, this essence - they have to realize that they have the ability, through non-recognition, to be spiritually in charge, more than any others. Secondly, in judgement, they have a tendency to judge themselves. The Hermetic tells old Chinese that if you put all the Water women together, you would have at least seventy five percent of the mirrors in your world. Meaning, basically, they are their own worst judges, for they are always looking at themselves, more than the others who have a tendency to throw themselves together. That term within your world, is most definitive.

But the Water female must be intricate, must be exacting, must work with every intricate detail. Not because they want to flaunt, but because they want the water to be clear, that people will drink and that they can see themselves. That is important.

The Water male will be somewhat of the same kind, but will have a tendency, in many ways, to be not as exacting with their presentation but be more exacting with their relatedness. The Water male will have more difficulty with interpersonal relationships than the Water female. One reason is that the Water make does not take as much care of their physical presentation. The female has - and it is good - a seemingly positive facade around them to be able to strengthen them. The Water male, of all things they deal with, they deal not much with fear - some; not much with anger; not much with judgment; but with frustration. In frustration comes the subheadings of jealousy, having a tendency to be anxious, to worry, always to wonder where things are going to come from. They will have a tendency to see a situation and, if it is a tornado, they will see it as a typhoon. They, basically, deal with frustration, trying to get things aligned. They will have a harder time consolidating their energy than the Female Water Element; but, in strength, the Water male has the ability to give a great amount of spiritual energy in the mediumship. The sad thing that happens in your world is that those Water makes who do this usually have homosexual tendencies. Because the effeminate energy that they have learnt to use and project is not accepted by masses of other men, they, basically, turn it in. They will pull to them strong Fire Element women who will have a tendency to say, 'This is where you put your water.' In the higher sense, the Water male can do things in intricacy, more than the Earth. they have abilities in intricate and long, exacting chores. They will take hours and spend hours on a project that a Fire Element would give up in minutes. They are long-suffering; they will be frustrated, but they will stay in a situation. Where the Water female will yell and scream and maybe leave a male who is not there, the Water Element male will stay with the wife, no matter how burdensome they may be. But, in creativity, they are strong. In empathy they will perceive, they will feel emotion, they can give it easily; they are strong in that way.

The Water Element female to Fire male must learn these things. There are very few true center Fire males - meaning that they have reincarnated in the center of December 21 - March 21. Very few; most Fire males are on the fringes. A Fire male that is on the fringe of Earth has a tendency to be like an Air male. A Fire male on the fringes of Water has the tendency to be like an Earth male. And so a Water female must know, that if they are dealing with Fire/Earth male, they will be dealing with an intellectual who tries to think and tries to think things for them, does not like to do things too fast, is a very slow individual who smokes a pipe. They have a tendency of this energy. The Water/Fire deals specifically with their sexual energy and with material. That will not have the confidence that things will be taken care of financially. They will have a tendency to worry a little too much of where the money is coming from, and of their sexual prowess. The Water Element dealing with these two fringe areas can understand them in regards to these concerns. But with the true Fir make, the Water female will have things that they must know. First, the Fire male in the center can deal with energy in any area. They will have, initially, no fear. If someone calls them a bad name, they will look at the individual as if they are right. They will go any place within your earth. There is no fear. There is usually not much judgment, hardly and frustration, and the only anger usually comes to the Water female herself, not to anyone else, and it is because of this projection of emotion. The Water female will feel that she is not being loved adequately by the center Fire male, and she will press, will want to have some kind of recognition. The Fire male gives the recognition by the total energy. The Fire male will be pulled to the Water female, and the other way also, because, together, working as a team, they have the greatest abilities, they will have the most difficult time.

The Water male, dealing with a Fire female, will find that, basically, they will be dealing with an energy that they will have to do what the Fire female wants and their life will be regulated along that area. They will find that their Fire female, if it is a Water make in the companionship, will have a difficult time spiritually projecting. To the water male, it will not be easy, and they will be torn between their individual growth and staying and steadying the relationship. The Fire woman, in relationship to the Water male, will try to regulate and strengthen them through physical action; through disease of the body, through feeling badly; through feeling, basically, that hey are being subjected, or not liked, because the Water male is growing in other ways.

The Water female in relationship to the Earth, dealing with the Earth male, will be dealing with an individual that is dealing materially and physiologically, sexually oriented, having a tendency to have difficult times with interpersonal relationships, being introvertive and very creative. The water female will drawn to them in this way; they will be drawn to the creative Earth male, to the one that can project themselves through the fine arts, or music, and want to be around them. They will want to feel that creativity, that energy, that power. But they will find that, within it, they will be the major strength and there will be slowly a draining of what they are, even though there cane be excitement in what they are doing. If they stay, or they match, then, the Earth male will have to deal with his creativity in a highest level, meaning that everything they do is creative art. That, the Water female can deal with. But if the creative art has tinged of financial insecurity, and sexual, there will be difficulty. Very seldom will you find an Earth male or an Earth female that will be what you may call a one-person man or woman. They will have a tendency to need the physical satisfaction and review of what they are from many people. The Earth male will be pulled to the Water female; the Earth female will be pulled to the Fire male.

The Water male cannot stand - and usually have great difficulty with - an Earth female. The Water male is dealing with spirituality; that is wrong analogy, but it has a tendency yo be soft, loving, warm, emotional, and to cry at the drop of anything. Whereas the Earth female, who has a tendency to deal sexually and materially, will have an area of wearing out the Water male. If the Earth female is creative, dealing in fine arts or the creative form, in the higher sense, a Water make can work with them. But it would be most difficult and, over long term, most unlikely.

Water/Air: what does Air do to Water? It churns it it up, it blows it away, it does not allow it to fall where it wants to fall. One thing you should learn about a Water person: don't push them away from where they are going - and wind or air does that. If it is raining, the wind will push the rain away; they will push the water someplace else. Water and Air. A true Water female and true Air male will have great difficulty: not being able, in the true sense, to have any lasting relationships, because the Air male will think so deeply and be so deeply involved in the scientific, the logical, the political, the psychological, that they will be, in many ways, intellectually above the Water female; but not in dealing with feelings, where the Water female is way above. A most difficult interrelationship, if it is true Air and true Water. The Air person will deal in a lot of insecurities; and a Water female will have a tendency to bring out these insecurities in an Air male. The Air male will say, 'We cannot do that because it costs two ninety-five,' and the Water female says, 'But I feel we can do it,' and the Air male will not be able to fathom that. It is that conflict. The Air make will have a tendency, in the metaphysical line, using their highest point, to be able to deal with a Water female, but as a working companion, not as a mate. Old Chinese has not seen one true Air male, one true Water female, that can make a lasting relationship.

But there are fringes. The Air/Water male and the Fire/Water female have a strong connection. It has a tendency to solidify: enough of the emotion of the air and enough of logicalness, or thinking, or what you may call orientation, to be able to help the emotion; enough of the Fire in the female to overcome and say, 'We are not going to do that, even though you have thought it to death.' That can go, both with the Fire female and the Air male, Air/Water, Fire/Water, or Water/Fire. The same with the make who is Water/Fire, and the female who is Air/Water, for they have a tendency to solidify; and all what you call the cusp alignments, that is one of the strongest, mainly because they have a tendency to balance each other very well. One of the difficulties is that an Air/Water male, in their thinking and in their logicalness, will be in many ways a part of other worlds in their mind. They learn very slowly that they can feel the water, what the female is putting forward; and even what they are thinking, or studying, they will begin to perceive, as the female projects. In her projection, she does not do it in yelling; she does it within visualization, and it will work, strongly. Even to the point of deep concentration, the Air/Water male will succumb easily. Now the Air female - very few, very few. The Water make will not be pulled together. You will not find them even aligning. That relationship, basically, is not a coordinate. The female will not want to have children and the male will; and it, basically, will not work.

Water is the spiritual: easy for the individual to develop a reality of self, and project it and live with it, more so than others. But equally is hard because, in that projection, they deal with the emotion that others put at them and they feel of self. fire, Water, Air and Earth each correspond and interrelate. But all of all them, Water deals with family, with home, with consolidation of your world and it's spiritual projection. Find a community, a group, an organization, a religion, a creed, a philosophy, a teaching, a guru, and you will find more Water females and Water makes than any other Element.

In Old China, the sage was walking slowly. He had had a very long day with many students. And as he walked through the spring for a drink, there sat at the spring a small girl. And the sage knelt and drank from the spring. And the small girl said, 'Are you thirsty?'

And the sage said, 'Yes; talk to me.'

Peace

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Elements part 17 - Water Transcript 1

Water Element Transcripts

Within your world, most Water Elements are female: seventy five percent plus are female. There is a reason for this, and if you are a Water Element female you automatically know that your inside is a positive force and your outside is negative. You know that you have this inner garden and it has deep inner beauty. It is a beautiful place for you to go, spiritually. The reason so many women are Water Element is because of that positive - negative energy, of the pulling together and the creating of strength. This is unique. Man does not have this but water does. Man dealing with this reacts differently as a Water Element than woman. We will deal with woman first.

The Water Element woman in her first fifteen days after spring is Water over Fire, meaning that they are dealing with emotions, dealing with expressing self, but have the ability to have the silence within, that strength within to go a little further. they do not react emotion as much. They are emphatic, loving, feminine woman that will very seldom cry. They are strong but they are centred around family. They are powerful and they have great inner beauty, but they have the ability to express their ability verbally; they have introvertish-extrovertish combination. Dealing with that, they need an extremely strong Fire Element male as their energy force, a Fire Element male that is the centre of the season. The reason for this is, in essence, to allow more energy to give their water the balance, but the male that is Fire over Water can also be a good balance with them. Within it, if they work together and develop a spiritual essence together and work as a team, they can have a good balance. The Fire/Earth male, to the Water female, has strength also; but he will be dealing with the material and the physiological, and the Water/Fire female will not want to be dealing with this. They will not want to be bothered materially or physiologically. They will want to be able to express their emotions stoically and with strength; not in the essence of softness, as a bud, but in the strength of a tree that comes forward powerfully, not with fear of not being loved or lovable.

Water Element reacting to the Earth: in dealing with the Earth Element they will, basically, have to be very withdrawn with their emotion, more so than with any other, not releasing it orally. They will have to be cautious in all areas, not overpowering in emotion and directing within their creativity, allowing them to be individualistic in the area that they are dealing with. The Earth Element, using their creativity, will have a tendency to be what you may call fanatical within cleanliness or within orderliness; and a Water Element may may be a little upset with that. Water dealing with an Earth Fire has a greater advantage, for the Fire can handle much of the emotion, will not withdraw all the way; and there can be a higher relationship there, a stronger ability. Of Earth/Air, great difficulty: should not be attempted, advised against.

The Water male is dealing in some cases as a positive-positive under the Water. In most cases, under the Earth. The Water male usually is coming forth from a last lifetime as a female and in most cases will deal with a lot of emotion and it's release; will deal with a lot of energy; will have great difficulty relating to a female Fire Element, because the female Fire Element will have a tendency to control their life, and they will not want to be controlled. But they will need that energy.

The Water male with a female Fire/Earth has the best advantage: they can release their emotion. It can be reacted to by Earth and by Fire, and they cane get the balances of both. However, the Water male can get along fairly well with an Air female. Within their emotion, the female has a tendency to be a little more relaxed and not as outward, fairly good aligning; but very seldom, for you have not many Water males and not many Air females and they are usually pulled to the opposite.

The Water/Water, in either way, you can imagine what you have: you have a Noah's flood. A Water/Water most catastrophic. If one is dealing with fear, the other has anger; if one has anger, the other has judgement; if one has judgement, the other has frustration. They are water, water all around them. They are usually pulled to the ocean, where there is more water and more emotion. Not a good alignment; very difficult, unless it is Water/Fire male and a complete Water female - possibility; or the other way around.

The Water male has the best alignment with the Earth female, for within their emotion the female's natural tendency is to absorb that, even though they are Earth; and there can be a rebalancing. The Water will be creative and warm and loving; the female Earth will want that loving physically, will have creativity, and so will Water male. Because they cannot have children and and will not be dealing with it, they will exceed in creativity, art form. Rembrandt was a Water male. Van Dyke was a Water male, and of course you all knew that the great artist Chou Li Nouk was a Water male - did some of the greatest paintings in China.

The totality of all these is that the Water female has beauty within family and expresses emotion and is clairsentient. The Water male is creative, artistic, has the ability of expressing; does not deal as much with clairsentience as with expressing their inner source as an art form, outwardly, rather than through someone else, as a  Water female does. The Water Element is the spring; is the beauty of the flowers; is the fertility. It is a time of creativity, of warmth and loving. Utilized in the highest sense, the Water Element can give a balance of unity, warmth, and loving to people that will be drawn to them from Earth, Air, and Fire because of their femininity, or their creativity as a male, and the strength within that.  

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Return to the Elements of Love

Return to the Elements of Love

I thought because we were looking at the differences between the Elements that it was a good time to revisit an earlier post called the Elements of Love. 

Understanding the elements of love allows us to have better relationships. Whether it is your partner, a friend, a client or even a character in a book, they all have their own element or season of love. Each of them because of this inbuilt genetic bias can only see the world from their viewpoint. The key, firstly, to understanding your own elemental type, is that it allows you to be free and be able to see the world in all it's magnificence, not just from a single viewpoint. As a Homoeopath and writer understanding the elements allows me to fully understand how my patient or the character in my books will act in any given situation. After studying the elements or the seasons that exist within all of us I wrote down the teaching in a modern fable called "The 33rd Sage."  

When I first heard the story of the sage and the emperor I was transfixed by the majesty of the story, but even more than that I began to understand myself. Today I would like to talk about the Elements of Love. This will be done in the form of a quote from my book where the Old Chinese Sage has taken on his female form and begins to teach about the Elements of Love. The love languages which match with each of the elemental types are called words of appreciation (Fire), Acts of Service (Air), Quality Time (Water) and Physical Touch (Earth). These names of each of the love languages are taken from his classic book, The 'Five Love Languages,' by Gary Chapman.

She lent forward, her heavy jowls sagging under her words. "The heart has four chambers, one to represent each of the Elements. It is as though each of the chambers was designed to carry one of the love languages; the top two chambers being the extroverts corresponding with Fire and Earth and the two bottom ones, the introverts corresponding to Water and Air." Conway cringed, shifting uneasily on the log. He dropped his head, his eyes scanning the dirt in front of him. His shoulders drooped. He bent over and scratched the ground with a stick. His breathing became shallow, almost stopping. "If the word love scares you, I can use the word rapport.” Conway looked up, smiling weakly. He sat up, forcing a deep breath into his body, immediately lifting his shoulders. She continued, a wry smile creasing the corners of her lips. “Using the language of love brings us into a symbiotic relationship with others. Without understanding the Love Language of others, the lust soon dies and we are left with ashes, another missed opportunity. Anyone we come into contact with deserves to be heard and spoken to in their own language; this is the greatest gift of the ‘Seasons of Love.’ It is not about passion, for that is only natural when we are in rapport with one another; it is about understanding the differences and honouring them. The differences are what give us our life, and our passion.

Ask anyone you meet, if they would they like to live in a world without friction. If they answer yes, I will show you a person who does not know life, but is merely going through the motions. For without friction, there would be no sex, there would be no life. "Get to know everybody's ‘Seasons of Love,’ honour the differences and exalt in the friction, for without the friction our world and our universe would not have come into being." Her passion flowed forth in her words. Conway was in the presence of Fire burning true. She spoke from her heart to his heart, using his language and he knew it, but it was not in the way of manipulation; no it was with a sense of honouring, of respecting, the differences and caring so much about them, that she changed her language so he would understand. For the first time, he understood the meaning of the word communication. He was taken on a ride of discovery, with her words. His mind was filled with word pictures. Words; how he loved their sound and the way the passion of one person could lift another, just by words. "The love language of the Fire Element is words of affirmation, or appreciation, words that uplift the individual. Verbal comments or words of appreciation are powerful communicators of love. They are best expressed in simple, straight forward statements of appreciation such as I really love your cooking, or you look fabulous in that dress. Fire people can almost live on words of appreciation.

"The object of love is not getting what you want, but doing something to support or increase the well-being of whoever you are in relationship with. "Even during lovemaking, the Fire personality responds to words of appreciation. The most important foreplay for them is words. If their second Elemental type is Water then they will require quality time and words of appreciation as a turn on. If their secondary Element is Earth then physical touch along with words of appreciation will be the best form of foreplay.

"The Water Element needs you to spend quality time with them-time when you totally focus on them. Turn off the television. Put down the book. Whatever it is that you are doing, forget it for a few minutes and give them your full attention and you will not believe how much love one person can give. You need to be the ultimate listener. They will respond well to candlelight dinners at home. Sit with them while they share their day and their emotions; for without a good listener they will be trapped inside a bubble of feelings, feelings, which need to flow, like fresh running water. Dam them and they become frustrated, stop the flow and it will kill them emotionally. If it is a Water child they will constantly beg for your attention, not like a Fire child who wants you to tell them how wonderful they are; the Water child wants you to spend time with them, whether it is playing, watching television or reading stories with them. They want to do anything where they will get your full attention. "If you give the Water type words of appreciation, or cook and clean for them, or do material things for them, or give them physical touch they will not feel loved unless you are first and foremost able to give them quality time." The passion, with which the feminine side of Old Chinese spoke, held Conway spellbound.

"The Air Element’s love type is acts of service. If you are in relationship with an acts-of-service person they will clean for you, darn your socks, mow the lawn, have dinner waiting for you when you come home; being the social conscience of all the Elements, they are in service to mankind and their loving style is the same. Foreplay for them is painting the spare room and washing the dishes. Do not make the mistake of allowing them to do everything because they appear to like it, or you will develop the martyr who is crying out for you to share some of the load.

"The Earth type being sense-indulgent, their love style is physical touch. Not just sex or physical foreplay, although that is also important to them. They are the ones that need to touch and be touched, sometimes they lack a sense of your space, which they will quickly fill, with their own. With this type if you want a loving relationship, you need to touch them and allow them to touch you. A kind word or a gift has little weight without the loving touch of your hand or the brush of a leg. In times of difficulty, they want to be touched, but only if they say so."

"In times of stress the Fire Element wants to communicate their difficulty to you. The Water wants you to sit with them. The Air wants you to serve them, while the Earth is warmed by the touch, the senses. "Of course, we are all aspects of the four of these, but generally we have a dominant love type that we respond to positively, more quickly than the others." What is your element of love? What is your friend or partner's element of love? Are you giving them what you want to receive in return?

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