Today’s tea wisdom is:
Communicate sacredness, build it, share it and spread it.
This little wisdom tab lives on my window sill above the kitchen sink where I can see it as a daily reminder of what is really important.
I put it here so I could take this picture to show where the wisdoms come from in teas.
How do we communicate sacredness?
How do we build it? Share it? Spread it?
There’s something that happens when the sacred reveals itself to us; when we recognize that what makes life sacred is its true nature, its essence.
Frequently in spiritual openings we experience Oneness of all things and/or the ground of Being that is in unity with all that exists. We experience its loving presence everywhere: Omnipresent. That makes it all sacred.
What happens when we live the truth revealed in that experience?
When we live as if everything is the Is-ness, and therefore most sacred — how does that communicate to the sacred that it is recognized and valued in everything we think, feel, say and do?
How does that demonstrate in our lives, our relationships and our world?
We are demonstrating that the underpinning of our action is based in something we are convinced is real, and that we are actually making real in our everyday actions.
It’s said that actions speak louder than words. We don’t think thoughts are actions, have vibrational force. They do. Feelings are stronger, often, and seem more energetic and vital. Mostly we believe what we physically do does it, and that has less to do with change then we have been led to believe.
Actually it also has to do with how we do what we’re given to do. What attitude, energy, care and attention we give to what we’re doing ripples out into the energy field. Like water in a pond, it ripples back to us: the inception points of engagement. When it’s focused and coherent, undivided in us, it’s powerfully born of our unity. Life and this living mystery has got us.
I’ve noticed that when we put out a certain kind of vibrational frequency and energy/spirit it builds, brick by brick a foundation, a structure, a matrix that is of and in alignment with the divine matrix. We are building, sharing and spreading sacred life.
…They describe the existence of a field of energy—the Divine Matrix—that provides the container, as well as a bridge and a mirror, for everything that happens between the world within us and the one outside of our bodies. The fact that this field exists in everything from the smallest particles of the quantum atom to distant galaxies whose light is just now reaching our eyes, and in everything between, changes what we’ve believed about our role in creation…
For everyone, however, the existence of a primal web of energy that connects our bodies, the world, and everything in the universe opens the door to a powerful and mysterious possibility.
That possibility suggests that we may be much more than simply observers passing through a brief moment of time in a creation that already exists. When we look at “life”—our spiritual and material abundance, our relationships and careers, our deepest loves and greatest achievements, along with our fears and the lack of all these things—we may also be gazing squarely in the mirror of our truest, and sometimes most unconscious, beliefs. We see them in our surroundings because they’re made manifest through the mysterious essence of the Divine Matrix, and for this to be the case, consciousness itself must play a key role in the existence of the universe.
The Divine Matrix, Gregg Braden
I often give thanks to the indigenous peoples of this world who have always known that all life is sacred, live it, breathe it, dance it, hunt and cook it, wear it, listen to and for it in everything. It has a powerful wordless silence to it.
Building, sharing and spreading it involves living it as so. Honestly and sincerely so at the end of the day we look in our mirrors and say that what we called real in our activities today was related to this truth that life is sacred: water, air/wind, breath, earth/soil/minerals, bodies/microbes/whales/humans, fire/sun, light, ether/space, sound/vibration, consciousness — you name it, including yourself, all life — all the universe is sacred.
If we forgot and treated something as not precious, not valued as sacred, even our compost, we can learn how that occurred and grow in our building, cultivating, communicating and communing.
We want to discover for ourselves what happens when we live as though everything is sacred, like a sacred trust we are co-creating among our Self.
We stand for sacred life, communing with all of it as our own beingness by listening and acting in accordance. We drink our tea, deeply steeped in what is real, nourished and enlivened thereby.
Perhaps you may remember the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon with music by Donovan. This requires slowing way down. Here’s a song from it, If You Want Your Dream to Be… build it slowly, brick by brick, this sacred life of ours.
Building readership and a continuing conversation is vital to our sacred life.