Many of Us Came Here Carrying Intrinsic Blueprints for our Creative Purpose
This is what I mean when I say; “Your body-mind is your work of art - You are the living embodied blueprint of your Dharma”.
This is what I mean when I say; “Your body-mind is your work of art - You are the living embodied blueprint of your Dharma”.
Many of us came here carrying intrinsic blueprints for our creative purpose - For our service in the world.
This blueprint is often made conscious to us within the moments when we are digging the deepest to navigate a painful inner corridor. These are the moments when the many secret codes to the unique architecture of our Dharma make themselves known to us.
Often our traumas are a fruition of Karma necessary for our blueprint to blossom into its greatest expression. Our blueprint is written into the infrastructure of the Soul, throughout many lifetimes, throughout all experiences that have imprinted upon us the wisdom to integrate those experiences toward our Soul’s self actualization.
By working with Karma artfully we evolve toward our Dharma.
But we have to make the choice.
The choice between letting our experiences further define and condition us more deeply into illusion, or the choice to use every karmic arising, both internal and external, to attune more deeply to who we truly are and why we are truly here.
We have the free will to direct our attention to the deeper purpose that is calling us forth from within our karmic experiences or not…
Dharma is an unfoldment from within the Soul. The body/mind is the medium forged by the Soul’s intention, it becomes our work of art, it becomes a direct channel for our service in the world. Many of the tools that are meant to be passed down in service can only be known through direct contact with our own suffering, through karmic challenge, from within our own body and mind.
The seeds of Destiny, of self actualization and liberation, of awakening, are contained deep within the nit and grit of our karmic challenges, deep within the darkness of our ‘dark night’. This is where the symbolism of the lotus in the mud comes from. If you find yourself feeling “stuck in the mud”, pay close attention. This where the real alchemy begins.
Dharma is the integration of everything that we are, the good-the bad-the ugly, toward one singular unifying expression.
An expression that can’t help but give itself over entirely to the service of humanity. There is nothing else that can be done at that point when the compassion that has been accessed for oneself, deep within that muddy underworld, can’t help but want to expand out onto others..It’s just the natural progression.
When we fulfill our Dharma, we craft our unique blueprint into tangible form, and then offer it to humanity so that they may use it for their highest good.
This can only happen by facing our karmas/traumas wholeheartedly and integrating the wisdom we acquire in the process toward our Dharma. What happened to us and how we found our way through it, becomes a map that can be passed down to others who find themselves in similar struggles.
In deep devotion, we become the living Dharma. We become a living embodiment of this blueprint. We receive the download through our own body and mind within our karmic challenges, and because a lot of the themes involved are often universal, your blueprint, while being original and unique to you, can also be applicable for many people.
Our Karma - Becomes our Dharma - Becomes our Destiny.
This is the essence of the Bodhisattva.
This is what I mean when I say; “Your body mind is your work of art - You are the living embodied blueprint of your Dharma”.
I realize I may not be using the word Dharma exactly the way it’s usually used. However, this is my experience of how Dharma unfolds organically as creative purpose, through working with all the ingredients we were given in life. Not as a set of imposed moral codes or duties meant to somehow make up for “bad karma”. Here I depict Dharma as arising organically out of the experience of meeting one’s karmic suffering wholeheartedly, out of the compassion that is cultivated naturally through that experience.
I also do not use the word karma the way it’s often used either. In my view, karma is not a punishment and reward system, although it is a product of natural consequence on one level. Karma is a set of metaphysical alignments that manifest in the material world. However, these manifestations can be just as much a gift as a punishment, it just depends how we work with them. Some of the worst cuts can shape us into brilliant, multifaceted gems. How is that simply “bad karma”?
Both the concepts of Karma and Dharma are complex multidimensional experiences that are somewhat intertwined in their manifestation. Working with Karma artfully leads to the organic expression of Dharma, which leads us into auspicious Destiny points on our path.
Beautiful. Especially love the alchemy point of a lotus stuck in the mud.
Okay, I had to Google a few terms in this to wrap my head around it insofar as I think I have, however that's pretty inspiring. Kinda makes everything feel purposeful as opposed to random. Kinda dig that