When our embodied, subjective experience is empathically
held by another, our nervous systems down-regulate, our minds soften, our
hearts open, and we come into a primordial sort of rest.
While our true nature as open, luminous awareness is the
ultimate holding environment, as relational beings we are wired to rest within
a relational matrix. To enter into this field with another, woven and
constructed by the alchemical substances of presence and of space, is one of
the great mysteries of the play of formlessness and form.
As we dance in the contradictions of self- and other-
holding, we become a vessel through which the opposites of separation and union
can unfold here. While the mind will spin to resolve the mystery, it was placed
inside you by love itself, which by its nature is unresolvable, untamable,
outrageous, and wild.
Never forget the transformative power of just one moment of
pure kindness and what it can do in a person’s life … that person including
yourself. It is wide awake, in perfect balance, and is the activity of
revolution.
