{"id":346,"date":"2010-04-29T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T11:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2010-07-02T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T16:25:19","slug":"guidance-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Written in August 2003)
\nDear Guides & Guardian Spirits, I\u2019ve been sad a lot lately.\u00a0 Probably partly let down after the summer\u2019s activities, and partly another layer of mourning for the end of my marriage.\u00a0 Please help me.
\n Dear Jenny, we love you a lot.\u00a0 The Universe is rooted in love, the creative source is an outpouring of Divine Love that springs like a fountain in the center of every created being.\u00a0 This love creates, sustains, supports each unique, irreplaceable being \u2014 which is why everything is sacred.\u00a0 Beings feed on other beings, this is a necessary condition for material life, but the sacredness of each being – even as it offers itself as food for another – must be remembered and honored.\u00a0 In this embodied life pain happens because of limitation and adjustment.\u00a0 If you refuse to feel the pain, the adjustment does not happen.\u00a0 Instead, more pain is created.\u00a0 Pain begets pain until someone is willing to accept and feel the pain, bring it into the present where it can heal.\u00a0 This is why the major spiritual discipline of human life is learning to be present to pain: not as a victim but as a witness.\u00a0 Learning to be present to pleasure is not difficult unless you have been practicing denial and dissociation as a way to deal with pain.\u00a0 The practice of being present to your own pain, to the pain of others, is central to the healing of the world.\u00a0 Do not deny your sadness but recognize how, even as you are present to the sadness, the Ocean of Compassion holds you up underneath.<\/em><\/p>\n

The “Ocean of Compassion” refers to an experience I had at Findhorn<\/a> in 2001.\u00a0 I was having a very hard time with hypervigilance.\u00a0 I went to meditate in the Nature Sanctuary, a small round building based on a spiral, with a sod roof.\u00a0 As I was sitting there, I experienced something like a layer of invisible substance that was holding me up, as though it were water, coming just to the level of the heart.\u00a0 I experienced it as compassion.\u00a0 It’s the first time I experienced compassion that was not coming from a person.\u00a0 Instead, I understood that it was a layer, like an ocean, around the whole planet, coming just to the level of the human heart.\u00a0 Later I learned that “Ocean of Compassion” is one of the names of the Dalai Lama.\u00a0 For several years I was able to recall the experience and be helped by it.\u00a0 Now I don’t re-experience it, I just have a memory of the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Written in August 2003) Dear Guides & Guardian Spirits, I\u2019ve been sad a lot lately.\u00a0 Probably partly let down after the summer\u2019s activities, and partly another layer of mourning for the end of my marriage.\u00a0 Please help me. Dear Jenny, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}