Thank you Mirabai for highlighting the longing for union of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine. Since the Divine Feminine arose in me this summer, I am experiencing "Christ-in-me-living-as-me" as feminine. It is a transformational experience of vast wholeness of all of me as a female human being. I have an intuition that the Spirit assumes the gender we are, making all genders sacred.
I love Mirabai Starr,I discovered her on Buddha at the gaspump and was so taken with her.She is such a real soul and they are hard to find even in the spiritual realm.
I deeply appreciate having access to conversations like this between two women with such presence. And the video editing really enhances that presence. Beautiful! Thank you. I look forward to reading this book.
I love this session with Mirabai and Tami. So very glad I was present to share it with them. Also so glad to have it available for me to listen again and again as I'm prone to do with the items I love. I live with them many times over and over until they are part of me. I am so glad this session can mine to digest inwardly again and again, as it has so much wisdom involved in such an easy way that I just might begin to absorb a bit of it with which to help others in time to come as it might be needed among those who don't know it yet. That would be wonderful...to be able to give such a gift to one who needs a gift such as this. Much love to both Mirabai and Tami for letting me claim a space within their "group" of "togethers." I've needed this nourishment desperately for years now, and my thirst has been assuaged by sitting here with you both and listening lovingly and quietly in your companionship together that I so wish to be a part of. This was great! A wonderful visit with both of you! Thank you with hugs!
I am a son to a Mother A son to a Father A brother to 2 sister(both older than me) A brother to 2 brother(one younger than the other one older) I have always been impressed by women coping mechanisms and quiet con fidence and perseverance. The Wisdom of Woman resonates with me. One of my Dance Teacher was a young woman who always made me feel utterly in the nude vis a vis her feminine Wisdom and Discernment.My false Pride Evaporated ... Next is Elif Shafak who has become a guru to me by being her Reader. Mirabai speaks softly and softly she makes me breathe..
I loved, and needed, to hear Mirabai define Mercy....because that is my Virtue...as an 8 on the Enneagram. I have, many times, wondered .....what is the meaning of Mercy exactly? and how will I know when i'm manifesting it.....been a long grief-stricken, dark path where the rug has been pulled from under my feet and being brought to powerlessness over and over again....hopefully Mercy will develop out of this....
Thank you women. Deep and nourishing. Beyond your beautiful message, I'm struck by the dissonance of some of the ads that show up during this presentation. I'm wondering if Sounds True has a way to (and might consider) tending to this dissonance more thoughtfully. It leaves me questioning much.
Her description of longing in Buddhism as cool isn't entirely right. Many teachers and masters teach that 'longing' to feel devotion etc is the portal. And tantra tells us to unite with all emotions including 'desire' and see them as wisdoms. Her writing is beautiful an full of inspiration and warmth; but nothing she says is new. Also compassion is warm in Buddhism as "Burning with compassion in a world you can't fix" None of this detracts from her truly wonderful wisdom and voice
As a women on this planet I know I have experienced life also as the male. Toxic femininity is real... WE as the HUMAN species need to nurture the female and male qualities in us as a whole. I love equally my male qualities as much as my female ones. Balancing the two is what will propel us forward. Labeling brings divisiveness...We see too much of this going on in this World. Labels and rhetoric that pulls us apart. Instead of flowing towards genuine love, that celebrates our differences yet understanding our similarities. I appreciate this talk and find her growth on the subject hopeful. I feel you however mention ME TOO shows me that you just don’t get it. 1 second ago
I love what you guys are talking about but I personally dont think we should be labeling feminine with female and masculine with men. As a gay male I know that every human has feminine and masculine in them. Can we blame men for toxic masculinity when they were raised by, for the most part, mostly women. Traditionally our mothers shape us more then our fathers do we spend more time with mother then working father. Men can not hug each other because of the stigma its gay. Men have to be strong and not show emotions or else your a "weak male" compassion is key be better then men not the same. I believe we have the power to balance the feminine and the masculine. The rise of femininity is wonderful and good but let's not confuse femininity with female and masculinity with Male and we can not just focus on femininity to much we need to have balance. Just because unchecked masculinity has been dominate and destructive does not mean we should let femininity go unchecked and rule. Anything unchecked will become bad. We need balance and if we use the tactics of the enemy we become the enemy. Balance is everything. Let's take the Male out of masculinity and the female out of femininity. We all have both in us! I have not finished the whole video so I might edit this Haha
I can't seem to concentrate on the author because all I can remember is that Sounds True is sh** and a capitalist machine. Why is everyone okay with the commercalisation of spiritualty? Ugh I'm gonna puke.
