Its been so hard to be motivated to write these last few weeks. Since Britain voted to leave the EU I feel that Ive entered a state of numbness. There is so much bugging me about the external world from the political figures to the media coverage to even my friends and family. The only thing that I have felt in control of has been my internal world. Inside I feel such a oneness like I'm part of the vastness of the open sky. In fact I can look at the sky and watch the clouds joining and changing forms it brings tears to my eyes. People are reacting, commenting, acting outside of full awareness of who they are. They think we are separate from each other. Its like a cloud saying I am not part of the sky, what will happen to that cloud? Everything externally is serving to create the sense of separateness so fear can rule. I ask you would be warmth or cold as described below.
Commentary by Murshid Inayat Khan:
Warmth melts, while cold freezes. Drops of water falling on a warm place and on a cold place are affected differently. The drop in the warm place spreads and becomes larger, covers a larger space, whereas a drop in the cold place freezes and becomes limited. Drops spread in the warm sphere: it causes the heart to expand and become universal, while the hardening of the heart brings limitation.
The bubble does not last long; it soon breaks, but with its break it joins a mighty ocean. So with us. When by warmth of heart we can break our limited self, we merge in the One, the unlimited. When our limited kingdom is lost from our sight, we inherit the Kingdom of God.
According to my source the 65th name Al Wahid is the unique one present in the many, the one that is in everything. Al Wahid is also the one underlying the many, the uniqueness of God that is reflected in each and every aspect of manifestation. As an abstract noun, it is identified with the state of oneness itself, but it also has the meaning, “the one who is in all”. Everything is a mirror for God’s face. Al Wahid brings the vision of infinity in a grain of sand. Every speck reflects the infinite. The result is that we can see a thing as finite and as infinite at the same time. The totality-the infinite -can be perceived within each and every finite element. Anything you hear, you hear the one; anything you see, you see the one.
Anyway two songs Id like to share. I was just reading an article about Riz MC and his track Englistan check it out. But prior to this I was reminded of Bjork. “Where is the line with you” I adore this song. She said it was a song about a cousin who kept being greedy. The lyrics speak to me on many levels. From the level of achieving oneness of becoming elastic to the lines between power and control that some have raised around the EU debate.
How are you feeling about things? Whats the music carrying you through this day to day madness?....please share xx
