The Alchemy of Change
Part of being a Divine Alchemist is that more and more of who you are comes into play. The more of you who gets up and walks away after the practice is over with, the more that is engaged in the qualities of the manifestation of the Buddha or the Deity of your practice.
And of course, that’s the point of the Deity practice, is to embody the manifestation so that it actually serves you in life; it isn’t just something you do like watching a television program for an hour.
What we’ve done in this is that we have gradually begun to develop over time a whole system of circumstances in our life that mutually supported the super-structure of us being victimized by life.
If we did that in a systemized way over time, Deity practice is another system that over time can produce a new super-structure that challenges the old, that replaces the old. In a sense, it’s a structure of change. That’s the beauty of it. So it’s not behavior modification, it’s not just trading one set of bad stamps for another set of bad stamps. What we’re doing is, we’re opening up to change, we’re opening up to possibility, and we’re infusing this experience or this sense of changeas you did in your practicewith compassion, with ease of being.
So that what’s happeningwe’re creating a whole new approach to the change which is life. No one needs to be mad at themselves or feel guilty because of what they did in the past. It’s rare that somebody has the awareness to cultivate Divine Manifestation consciously. Our bondage is almost done collusively within our culture. And we’ve talked about how the culture itself has at its foundation this idea that nature is in opposition to us.
Yogi Sean is the student of Swami Ramananda and the author of Dancing in the Fire of Transformation and The Everyday Sanyasin.
