Plane-to-Plane Memorandum | |
| To: | My Beloved Students |
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| From: | Master Djwhal Khul |
Subject: | September 2010 Lesson |
| Date: | August 30, 2010 |
Beloved Students:
I greet you in the afterglow of Earth Healing Day. While it is still impossible to verify the results of participants around the world, I can tell you Earth Healing Day was a grand success. Many, many people around the world offered their good wishes in the form of prayers, meditations, contemplations, joyous dances, chanting and through simple (but effective) appreciation of Earth’s magnificent beauty. Our success was significant enough that we will make Earth Healing Day an annual event, and we will also provide a focus monthly for directing Earth Healing energies, and participating in Earth Healing activities.
I hope you will join me in celebrating this success. It was somewhat disappointing that we only picked up three participants in Denver (in addition to those enrolled in the workshop), but there was a goodly response in the U.S. over the whole. We had fantastic responses in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, France, Wales, Bulgaria, and India, and somewhat lesser responses in Mexico, England, Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. There was a decent response in South America, and a somewhat less (but notable) showing in the Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe and Africa. In whatever way you can, please give thanks for the participation of so many people in Earth Healing Day.
Indeed, what all of this demonstrates is that people all over the world are inclined to open their hearts for Earth. I find this most encouraging, particularly in the face of all the problems now afflicting the conventional reality. Oil continues to spill in a number of places around the world, and the ravages of war and warring mentality can be seen in Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq and Iran. Other areas, as well, are feeling the tension of human conflict, and it must be the intentional focus of all who can create it to anchor peace virtually all over the planet. Certainly the recent violence in Mexico needs attention, and there is great suffering still in Pakistan from the effects of a particularly devastating monsoon season.
Clearly, the entire world is presenting evidence that we must expand the “collective heart” for the benefit of all. This, of course, is accomplished by the expansion of the hearts of millions of people, basically one heart at a time. I believe our efforts in creating a successful Earth Healing Day demonstrate that the world is ready for this next step in collective consciousness expansion. This will likely be even more difficult to document that our efforts as regards Earth Healing Day. However, if we do this work well, the planetary results will be amazingly palpable.
What is it that causes the heart to expand? While many of you may have created considerable growth in your own lives by working to deepen your love and compassion for all sentient beings, still more is needed. You will want to first ask yourself the difference in creatively powerful spiritual love and romantic, or sentimental love. Although it should go without saying such, the latter is, of course, ego-based while the former arises from something much vaster than a personal, or individuated self.
As profound spiritual love is generated, the ego must dissolve, since the ego is simply not vast enough to contain and apply such love. Generally speaking, the ego offers its love in pursuit of some form of personal gratification. While learning to love from the ego is necessary for its overall development (or “re-education”), still, egoic love requires reciprocation, or it is withdrawn. Profound spiritual love, however, is altruistic, and it is the only love-force vast enough to mend and restore the planet, as well as transcend those rampant displays of “collective ego” demonstrated through political wrangling and/or international disharmony.
Saints and mystics of all traditions have spoken of spiritual love as a powerful, creative force. Indeed, some have said it is so powerful as to literally generate miracles. For most people, this level of love seems impossible to accomplish, and when egos are given free range to run the show, this higher love frequency is simply repelled by the fortress of the ego. However, when enveloped in the love of this greater frequency, often the ego’s only response is to simply melt into something more fluid and less rigid.
This melting response is quite normal in the presence of a vaster love vibration. It is similar to what happens when the warm sunshine of spring begins to melt the cold snow and ice of winter. That which was cold and rigid becomes warm and fluid. In like manner the coldness of the ego’s self-centeredness can be warmed by the sunshine of spiritual love. As this occurs, cold places in the heart melt and love can flow forth and be received by parched areas of human experiencing (just as melted snow runs down the mountain to nurture the parched desert soil).
When fully open, the field of the human heart is vast enough to contain (love, heal and support, as well) the entire planet Earth. Now to a mind locked in a linear perspective, this statement may seem absurd, since (as some are bound to contend) the heart chakra is nowhere near large enough to envelope an entire planet. It seems as though the planet is so very large and that the heart chakra of a mere mortal is so very small. Such a mind may want to talk in terms of circumference, distance, or even volume, comparing and contrasting the apparent relative size of these two.
Indeed, such might be an accurate statement for the heart chakra controlled by the ego-mind. Not only does the ego resist expansion, it can cause the heart chakra to become dense, contracted and necrotized as well. The hearts of saints, rishis and evolved spiritual masters, however, appear quite different from the contracted examples of ego-driven heart chakras so abundant in the world today.
Yet, when the heart opens to its own potential, there is actually plenty of room to contain not only a planet, but perhaps a universe, as well. The “trick,” of course, is to get the heart to open fully. As you might imagine, this takes determination and persistence toward one’s spiritual goal. The irony is that when the heart comes open, one discovers that such is the natural state for the heart chakra. All the defending, contracting and concretization that seemed natural turn out to be but ploys of the ego in order for it to remain contracted, thus disallowing the realization of the heart’s potential.
So just how will you open your precious heart to its fullest potential? In truth, hearts can open quite naturally when in the presence of profound spiritual love. The problem is that they do not always remain open after the experience of receiving profound spiritual love is over. Yet, it is the daily practice of moving into a space of altruistic love and compassion for all beings that actually seals the heart in the universal flow of profound spiritual love. Of course, the spiritual aspirant must learn to generate that love, as well, since it is simply not enough to perpetually remain on the receiving end of the flow of high frequency (or para-personal) love.
Often, to attain the truly open state, the heart may need to “break,” or to have an experience of being “broken open.” In this case, the process is merely one of cracking open the crystallized configuration the ego has used in its desire to protect the small heart from experiencing pain when its offerings of love are not reciprocated, or gratified. Evolved individuals may refer to their “dark night of the soul” experiences, wherein they suffered the pain of their own small hearts breaking open in the sunshine of the Great Heart.
While most people try to avoid allowing their ego hearts to be broken, in truth, such is all part of the soul’s transcendence process. The small heart must give way, or dissolve into, the vast heart if true spiritual progress is to be realized. In truth, many people do undergo “dark night of the soul” experiences without breaking through the confines of the small heart. Indeed, there are no guarantees that mere suffering leads to enlightenment. The goal, you see, is less about breaking than about breaking through.
“Breaking through,” as used here, implies the presence of some level of awareness for both the breaking process, as well as the mind field that is being broken through. Without awareness of the process and the object of the process, such heart purification experiences may offer the aspirant only meaningless suffering. However, to hold awareness of this purification process offers much more. It allows one to at least approach the possibility of converting meaningless suffering into meaningful experience. Now this is the stuff of real spiritual growth.
To aid you in this most interesting journey into the Great Heart, I recorded a lecture for this month, en-titled, The Heart of Creation. In this lesson, you will touch the mystic’s heart in both Eastern and Western traditions, thereby offering you, I trust, a big enough container to hold the experiences of your own heart expansion. As we move forward with Earth healing in the 21st Century, you will need an expanded heart field to accomplish the spiritual work that arises. Expanding your heart will clearly be a powerful journey for you, but it can provide a great gift for the continued healing and wholing of planet Earth, as well.
I encourage you to ponder deeply these matters. You will never regret expanding the field of your heart, nor accepting the healing that so doing brings into your life. Walk in peace, look for grace and goodness, and above all, celebrate the journey.
Your loving Teacher,
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