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started: 10/15/2008
Credo says we must awaken the "mother mind" and begin to "think sideways" rather than habitually using our rational "warrior" mind. What is the mother mind to you and how might you begin to think sideways?
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The warrior mind focuses on the goal. It serves the needs of the community in a direct way: hunting, aiming, working toward something defined. But the mother mind focuses on love: watching, listening, nourishing, reaching out in compassion, mindful of the whole. The mother mind also nurtures the circle where we live together (the tent, the home, the office, the neighborhood), and keeps the place inviting for the unexpected, the repressed, and the sick.
So, both are necessary, and neither is
sufficient, for a well-functioning society. I appreciate your drawing
out the positive distinction and role of each.
Ours seems to have lost a lot of the innate connecting energy of the
mother mind. When I think of the mother mind, as described by you, I
feel like it is something best done by women, because in my experience,
it isn't "manly" to think of such feminine attributes as nurturing
and,well, 'mother' anything. I wonder how men are going to become
receptive to these concepts, and overcome long-held biases toward
strict gender roles..
HOW TO CONNECT WITH THE FEMALE ENERGY?
SURRENDER !!!
That what is need it !!!
To be able to connect with the female energy inside our self. FEEL, FEEL, FEEL, our own HEART.
He is very silent, does not scream, he whisper from the UKNOWN from EXISTENCE what to do ....
It does not mean anything that I'm in a female body and you are in a male body because both carry these energies (the female and the male).
It depends how we have grown up, and other factores in our life that brougth us to use more the female or male energy.
Of course, it is more natural that, in a woman there is the expression of a female energy .... but you also know that some women has more a male attitude towards life.
What is important to understand is HOW we USE these ENERGIES. Bring AWARENESS in this and than it can come the time WHEN is the moment to use which energy ... and HOW to use it .... It depends from the circumstances we are in at that exact moment. That mean:
IN THE HERE NOW ... NOWHERE .... (Taken from Osho an indian mystic)
Love ShantayaMeera
HOW TO CONNECT WITH THE FEMALE ENERGY?
SURRENDER !!!
That what is need it !!!
To be able to connect with the female energy inside our self. FEEL, FEEL, FEEL, our own HEART.
He is very silent, does not scream, he whisper from the UKNOWN from EXISTENCE what to do ....
It does not mean anything that I'm in a female body and you are in a male body because both carry these energies (the female and the male).
It depends how we have grown up, and other factores in our life that brougth us to use more the female or male energy.
Of course, it is more natural that, in a woman there is the expression of a female energy .... but you also know that some women has more a male attitude towards life.
What is important to understand is HOW we USE these ENERGIES. Bring AWARENESS in this and than it can come the time WHEN is the moment to use which energy ... and HOW to use it .... It depends from the circumstances we are in at that exact moment. That mean:
IN THE HERE NOW ... NOWHERE .... (Taken from Osho an indian mystic)
Love ShantayaMeera
When Credo discusses two sides of our mind - I heard the implication that two sides can be in balance and also be out of balance.
We have in western society sealed ourselves away in a virtual world. Our problems are thought be solved with a mouse click. Credo's words urge us to "feel" what is going on in the world. We have forgotten to experience the world with the bottoms of our feet. Perhaps our Mother Mind is our willingness to find that balance again.
Well, Sahiah, I'm bummed that my response I wrote to you last evening somehow got lost. So, I'll do it again!
I was thinking how ironic it is that we are conversing via mouse clicks ourselves, and reflecting how technology is both boon and bane, and much of it has to do with our choices of how to use it. If we use it to enhance our experience of 'the other', such as people who are remote to us, then it is good, for it expands our awareness. And yet if we use it to remove ourselves from the present, to escape into virtual worlds and flee reality, then it is clearly not helping us move in the right direction.
I certainly agree that we need to remember how to feel the real world beneath our feet, and we will rebalance ourselves in the process. Does our Mother Mind give rise to the impulse to do so? Or, is it the end result of the rebalancing? Or...is it both the cause and the effect?
Alan, thanks for taking the time to reply (again!)...
Your point is well taken about our virtual conversation right now. On balance I would say this world-wide connectivity and access to other people is a net positive. I have seen into corners of the world I might never otherwise experience. As you say, it is what you do with this access that matters.
I had not considered the order of Mother Earth/Mother Mind. I suspect Mother Mind exists through all. Perhaps our willingness to hear her voice is what gets re-balanced?
Thanks for giving me something to ponder. Be well.
"Perhaps our willingness to hear her voice is what gets re-balanced?"
Yes, I've long felt that a big piece of this puzzle is the "simple" element of longing. Longing for meaning, for connection to the heart and to the earth, etc. I'm reminded of those biblical sayings of 'knock and the door shall be opened unto you', 'seek and ye shall find', 'ask and ye shall receive'. I'm guessing you're right that our openness...open mind, heart, ears, etc...is what ultimately allows us to hear the whisperings of the Mother Mind.
Perhaps she's not whispering so much as shouting to any and all who will pay attention these days!
I resonate with your comment about re-balancing.
This re-balancing seems to require conscious inner work in the first instance, so we do the work necessary to shift from seeing through our ego-centred awareness to a wider, more transpersonal awareness.
In my practice, it is a constant, ongoing task to acknowlege where my will is located... if I am honest, I often want the world to fulfil conscious and unconscious ideas about how things 'should be'. It's not easy to reach a vantage point from which to both trust the unfolding fate of many lives, and also be of service to creative solutions that are knocking on life's door.
Mother Mind seems to speak into the receptive, surrendered space that arises when we are truly ready to put aside personal needs and ask "What is the need of this moment?" Sometimes a response from Mother Mind comes through... I hope we can all learn to attune to this more and more, because the call to service is strong in so many people at this time.
Dear AliB, I have to admit I got chills when I read your response. It feels absolutely right on to me, both in your candor and clarity in portraying the challenge inherent in trusting this unfolding fate without inserting my will in the quest to be of service...and the way in which you describe Mother Mind as speaking "into the receptive, surrendered space that arises when we are truly ready to put aside personal needs and ask "What is the need of this moment?"
Just another powerful affirmation to me that this collective impulse to be of service is not only happening, but that the path to being effective in doing so shares profound commonality.
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