Wordless Mysteries

Though this day is, again, shrouded in darkness, my heart lightened through my practice of qigong and T'ai Chi Chih. I've felt the Vital Force energy vibrate through me and it reminds me that all is well.

While reading The Mystic Vision this morning I came upon an interesting and empowering segment that introduced the theme for the month of June, "Wordless Mysteries":

The real war in the modern world is not between democracy and communism or between capitalism and totalitarianism or between liberalism and fascism. It is the war for the mind and heart of humankind between two completely different versions of reality: the version that materialist science, most contemporary philosophy and most modern art gives human beings, as driven, dying animals in a random universe (a version that many institutionalized religions unconsciously abet with their emphasis on human sinfulness and powerlessness) and that version of humankind's essential divine destiny that mystics in all ages have discovered and struggled to keep alive..... Bhagavad Gita: He is forever free who has broken out of the ego cage of I and mine to be united with the lord of Love. (p. 88)

What a wonderful freedom to be released from the polarized world of either-or and right or wrong into the wide open spaces of love, acceptance, and compassion.

This is one of the gifts of T'ai Chi Chih practice .... it offers us the opportunity to realize and experience a different reality. In its special moments of peace, quiet, and serenity we can remember that no matter how driven, judgmental, or power-hungry we or the people around us may be, we can always return to our Self, to that place of pure self awareness that is one with all Life.

When we connect with the Chi, we can step out of the materialistic pursuits and destructive tendencies of our human culture and reconnect with the spiritual powers of the Universe. We can heal our brokenness; we can become whole.