A Framework for Emotional Alchemy | In our ongoing exploration of how to embody and become love, we’ll learn ways to overcome challenges that create resistance.
Someone once remarked to me that it is easy to feel peace, to be in a zen state, to feel love and all the lovely emotions whilst you are sitting comfortably, because it is as if a bucket of rubbish settles: the rubbish sinks to the bottom, whilst the water rises to the surface. Once you start to move, everything gets mixed together; that is why the ideal is to remove that rubbish while you are moving (in your day-to-day life, your routine). By removing the rubbish, you will see the things around you clearly. The work is constant, and so is the cleansing of the subconscious; that way we eliminate the ego, or understand it better.
I love this metaphor of the bucket. It’s relatively easy to find stillness when the water is undisturbed. The real practice begins when life stirs everything up again—when we are triggered, rushed, challenged, or in relationship with others. That's why practices of reoving rubbish matter even more.
Someone once remarked to me that it is easy to feel peace, to be in a zen state, to feel love and all the lovely emotions whilst you are sitting comfortably, because it is as if a bucket of rubbish settles: the rubbish sinks to the bottom, whilst the water rises to the surface. Once you start to move, everything gets mixed together; that is why the ideal is to remove that rubbish while you are moving (in your day-to-day life, your routine). By removing the rubbish, you will see the things around you clearly. The work is constant, and so is the cleansing of the subconscious; that way we eliminate the ego, or understand it better.
I love this metaphor of the bucket. It’s relatively easy to find stillness when the water is undisturbed. The real practice begins when life stirs everything up again—when we are triggered, rushed, challenged, or in relationship with others. That's why practices of reoving rubbish matter even more.