Softening the Heart.

 We like to feel that we express from the heart, but in doing so we may become ‘heavy-hearted’. I did for years! We get carried away with passion. Passion is not at all a bad thing as it is energy, but misplaced energy can become destructive…or at the least, annoying! We might find ourselves wanting to subdue our ‘perceived’ enemies, which only serves to create more problems.

 Softening the heart doesn’t make us weak, but gives an unbreakable diamond quality to our being. We no longer have to win, as there is no competition. We compassionately allow what takes place to take place – karma has to play itself out, without us creating more.

 In softening the heart, we become bodhisattvas. This is the path of altruism: disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others, at one’s own expense.

 This modern world is full of strife, aggression, and killing.
This IS the Kali Yuga.
It is here that we sow the seeds for the next Yuga.
It is in the Kali Yuga that we can make the fastest progress.
It is in the Kali Yuga that we should not add to the confusion.
It is in the Kali Yuga that we soften and bend with these karmic storms, but do not break.

 It is obvious by now that the Kali Yuga is being manipulated by those ‘hard-hearts’ that profit from strife, aggression and killing. Unfortunately, this karmic storm will truly carry them away to a hell worse than the one they are compounding, and feathering their bunkers is no escape.

 In a relative world, we are not all one. There are natural divisions. In the Kali Yuga, everything is exaggerated: divisions are magnified by those who would profit from them, resulting in more strife, aggression and killing. War is profitable for war makers.

 Opposing this process only serves to harden us. By recognising the process, we no longer consent to it, and thus it becomes transparent and seen by all. It will wear itself out. The law of karma never fails: that is exactly why we are here. Ignorance creates our karma. The Kali Yuga is collective ignorance.

A softened heart
is a compassionate heart
without limits, without fear.

 Compassionate fearlessness
is the way of the warrior.
The unbreakable warrior
knows the unbreakable truth.

 The relative exists
by virtue of the absolute.
The relative, recognising its true nature,
softens, melts and becomes enlightened.

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