Unconditional Namaste

Living in non-duality

Dear friends,

I’ve been pondering on the meaning and feeling of the word Namaste.

As a long time yoga teacher it seems quite ordinary to say namaste when meeting someone in a yoga class. It goes with the hand gesture of palms together in front of the heart.

It’s a beautiful vibrational sound, namaste, that’s meant to bring us into remembering we are all from the same source and there is no separation.

I am you

You are me

We are one

I realized that it's so easy to embody and embrace this when I’m gazing at a tree, or flower, or an animal, or child.

Yet what about those darker more shadowy sides to life.

The narcissistic leaders, the unkind and cruel dictators, the bullies, and people who spread lies without even knowing it.

SELF ENQUIRY

How can we embrace and embody the totality of life, even the parts we want to look away from or fight against?

It begins when we start to see that what’s in the inner is also in the outer. We can use that capacity to look within to our own inner ‘dictators’. The parts of us that want to control situations and people. 

And do we think that we are more intelligent than the wasp or bee or bird?

When you watch and truly see life, all of life, without feeling superior, there is an intelligence revealed in all of nature, in all creatures, beyond our mind’s understanding.

This intelligence flows through everything. 

It is an energy that is free and beyond our dualistic thinking mind.

It’s not about right or wrong.

It doesn’t care about genders and roles

It’s free and loves all things because it IS love, and everything that is created is created from the substance of love. 

Not just a romantic kind of love but a vaster energy. We often feel this around heart chakra, the center of the chest.

We cry at the beauty of a sunset, or newborn babe, and feel that in the body around the heart and then the tears mysteriously come and flow.

And we weep at the cruelty of war and destruction.

And yet it is all part of a divine unfolding. All are playing their part in the dream of life.

The maya / illusion is that we are a separate entity when there is really only one energy, one consciousness expressing itself as many, and in a creative diverse range of forms and plays.

On a personal level

How can we embrace and embody those outer shadow expressions of life without judging or making them bad or wrong? And I’m not saying some of the shadow expressions out there are not horrific.

What I’m pointing to is how we can bring that outer expression into looking within ourselves and being honest about our own shadows.

Like the example above of noticing our own need to control things and people. Our inner little dictators.

With awareness of our own controlling tendencies, can we see and breathe some space into our inner shadows and ask, how can I be less controlling and instead be more trusting of this mysterious energy that is bigger than my tiny egoic self?

The fears that arise within us, can we manage to see that fear and not immediately go into reaction. Not go into war with someone, or ourselves.

It takes a lot of self compassion, and if you have lived through trauma it's challenging. It helps to seek someone professional to help you move through fears and associated trauma.

Every war, inner or outer, comes from fear. 

Think about it.

Fear of lack

Fear of being powerless

Fear of being dominated (so go and dominate first)

Fear of expressing who we are (lest we be burned at the stake)

We all have these fears and what I’m offering and pointing to is to look within and do our own bit of house cleaning. 

Get off the wheel of samsara where things keep repeating over and over again.

EXPAND YOUR NAMASTE

It starts with each of us taking individual self-responsibility so we can respond in a heartful loving way rather than an unconscious fearful cruel way.

It helps to remember that everyone is doing their best and that they are playing their role. Even if we deem their role to be ‘wrong’  - can we become more conscious and compassionate and move beyond the duality in which this world operates and bring in the light of non-duality, which is one, not two. We all come from the same source energy.

Not everyone is going to be able to do this, and that’s ok. 

If you are aware and can see and feel what I’m saying and pointing to, then I invite you to expand the energy of namaste towards ALL expressions of consciousness.

It will make a difference.

With love & gratitude,

Aesha is a guide helping people be true to who they are, and know what that means. To view her offerings visit her website

https://www.aeshakennedy.com/