November 5, 2023 Sunday Morning, Fall Retreat
Energetic Container for Compassion; Ground for Readiness
(Aaron‘s response to the angst of an older student, of his not being able to go and physically offer support to those in Israel who are suffering violence and killing.)
Aaron: I hear the pain in your heart. The human goes through various stages in its life. At some stages, this action or reply is most harmonious to the true being, and in other stages, a different reply is. As the human ages, often they cannot go off and protest or do whatever else they were moved to do thirty years earlier, and perhaps that is not what is needed.
The world needs an energetic container for compassion.
Feel in yourself the power to help support that energetic container. It is no less a “doing” than any other kind of doing but it is a doing grounded in a certain wisdom and beingness that only someone that has reached some maturity can bring together.
So, this is your special gift at this time of your life:
To pray.
To visualize.
To purify yourself — releasing old animosities, old distinctions of this and that — and truly holding everything in the loving container of your heart.
This is a powerful connection in the world. It can bring forth powerful results. It can draw to you from all over the world, the energy of others like yourself. You don’t have to talk to each other or Zoom with each other. You can; it’s not a problem. But trust the power of your energy and love and release it into this massive container of unconditional love and strong compassion that says “No!” to killing, but without blame of anybody who still is engaged in killing. They are not ready yet not to kill. You become the ground from which their readiness can arise.