Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Purim, ( i don't mind and I don't care...) the gift of leaving the " Mind"


So in our world there is a lot of Mind

Purim gives us the opportunity to let go of the work of having to "know" everything, decide whether we like it or don't and whether it is good or bad.
Purim is a vacation from the Rational Mind, the mind dominated by post Garden-of- Eden thinking where everything is split into polarities of right and wrong,  good and bad and evil or holy. On Purim, we transcend the Rational Mind, we move to a place higher than "sachel", to a place where we can connect above the polarities, above the distinctions, where we can see that the source of everything is in fact G-d and therefore good.
Of course this doesn't mean that all of a sudden we can condone the evil in this world, the acts of terror and bigotry perpetuated daily or feel that how we act doesn't matter...., it's just that for one 24 hour period we are given an opportunity to look at our own lives, and what G-d has put in front of us, and relate to it in an attitude of total gratitude, knowing with our non -mind, that whatever Hashem does is good and we can  transcend our own definitions of what we think that is, and trust that if He has given that to us.... it's good in a way that we do not need to understand. 

We can take it further with the people we meet. Now once again, I am not talking about the machete brandishing terrorist who may want to do bodily harm to you or anyone else,  G-d forbid, but more about a fellow Jew who may have a particularly irritating quirk or personality... relate from the place of non -judgement... he or she is in essence all good, also created in the image of G-d  and Purim is an ideal time to practice seeing this good.

The Mitzvah on Purim is to get oneself into such an expanded state of consciousness that one cannot distinguish between blessing Mordechai( the hero of the Purim story) and cursing Haman (the villain) or cursing Mordechai and blessing Haman!! That is one of the central obligations of the holiday! One can only do this by going beyond the rational mind, to a place of trust and transcendence....
It is said that joy breaks through  all boundaries.... be happy and transcend the boundaries of the rational mind!
I bless us all that we should get to this amazing "place" in our consciousness this Purim,  and take from it the ability to look with Purim eyes at all the details of what Hashem gives us year round.





2 comments:

  1. Beautiful Bracha. Reminds me of the loving kindness meditation we were taught in the meditation course I am finishing today. We repeat a loving kindness meditation over and over in the mediation, first for ourselves, then a loved one, then a neutral person, then a difficult person we've encountered or have to live with.

    The meditation is:

    May you be safe and healthy, peaceful and strong. May you live with ease and joy.

    It takes practice to do it for the difficult person, but after a half hour of that meditation, it transforms your whole psyche. I love the connection to Purim.

    Linda V.

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    1. Glad you appreciated this Linda. So looking forward to sharing the Tiferet Movement classes with you!

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