Dear readers and friends,
I just watched a segment of RTalk first thing this morning. It is called ‘Passion’ with Eri and Fokke, both Reiki Masters, she Japanese, he Dutch. And both do and live calligraphy with great enthusiasm.
They describe a state they each experience when practicing their art form. A state of being, a state that could perhaps also be called Tao. Only, “if you can describe Tao, it is no longer Tao”.
I know this being very well, know this state when painting. I even titled a painting “The void”, a void that is not only empty but also very full of consciousness or unconsciousness. Does that make any sense at all?
I am also an Ikebana master, and during the process of becoming an Ikebana, exactly this state arises, where simply nothing else matters, where the path is the goal. But it is also very moving to see the result of this process of creation in the form of a “flower arrangement”.
What does this have in common with Reiki? For me, a lot, because we can also experience this absolutely sacred and healing state during self-treatment. When everything around stands still, or disappears as if in a fog. Our being needs this state on all levels, especially in these very demanding times.
I wish us all this inner stillness. If not always, then more and more often?
A luminous Christmas season and an enriching, happy new year,
Namaste.
Mischa
PS: when I was making my Advent wreath I was exactly in this “middle”, that’s how you can also call the silence.
Tao: Mischa quotes the first sentence of the Tao te ching, one of the most important writings of mankind from the 4th century before Christ, which deals with Yin and Yang and their interaction.
Ikebana: the Japanese art of flower arranging. Ikebana literally means ‘living flower’.