Photo by Rahal Eks - the sea
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HAPPY
NEW YEAR 2015
January
1, 2015 happens to be a Thursday – the day to remember the story of
Mushkil Gusha, the Problem Dissolver – usually told or read during
Thursday Sufi evenings world-wide and in multiple tongues. I thought
it is a good omen to start the first day of the New Year with some
Sufi activity of remembrance, story-telling, meditation and listening
to music.
If
we look at numerology 2015 gives us a bunch of esoteric information:
the 2 of the current millennium indicates balance and harmony,
something the entire planet and all its inhabitants really need in
order to evolve peacefully.
The
0 is the ideal empty number in the center of the enneagram,
representing the perfected human being, Al-Insan Al-Kamil -
Allah's Khalifa or symbolic deputy on earth.
The
1 stands for the Alif, the first letter of the alphabet, and a
symbol of the Divine. It also stands for self expression and
creativity.
And
the 5 represents fast moving Mercury, a symbol of communication per
se and also between the higher and the lower levels of
existence.
Together
we get 2 + 0 + 1 + 5 = 8, turned to the side it becomes the symbol of
endlessness or eternity. The 8 also represents in musical terms the
octave and the path going forever slightly uphill, hinting at
evolution and progress in multiple ways.
Of
course the world is older than 2015 years and we got many calendars
and time calculations, all valuable and useful in diverse cultural,
religious and spiritual contexts.
No
matter which calendar you use, the question remains how do you deal
with time? Are you maximizing time and living according to your
fullest potential and your life's purpose?
Are
your wasting your precious times with things misleading you from your
goal? Are you caught up in the past, still tripping on your terrible
or glorious childhood and using it as an excuse for today's
shortcomings?
Or
are you dreaming about a perfect rosy future, far away, somewhere
over the rainbow like a lovely film projection, while in reality you
are missing out the wonders of the present, the moment of now?
Are
you pretending to be a rational type, not effected by anything but
hardcore facts and statistics? Or are you the mystic friend, longing
for the Beloved with each breath?
There
are also other types, like those who just indulge in the joys of the
nafs, the commanding self, or those who wallow in
sentimentalities and believe they are experiencing the most noble
emotions and feelings.
The
perfected human being represents a more refined and holistic,
all-inclusive palette, not just a mono-cultural channel with one base
program.
The
magic keywords are diversity, balance, harmony and a very clear
intention. The latter is actually half the rent and rather vital!
Now
many people start the New Year with a firm and brave resolution:
either to turn vegetarian, stop smoking, to eat less and get more
exercise, change job, religion, lover or all of it, practice more
loving kindness, function from a loving heart space, increase real
knowledge, live and behave more truthful and in sink with the inner
being, or whatever it may be.
Sometimes
these new passions are short-lived straw fires and soon forgotten
while the former enthusiast soon relapses into old nafs habits
and the well established patterns of conditioning from the fossilized
past. While the person on the Path of the Friend, also called the
friends of Baraka, try to keep things moving, growing and
alive like a well watered garden. This implies getting rid of the
weed, trimming some dead branches, and making sure each flower, tree
and plant also gets enough love and light. It's an on-going process
and truly a mega-project and in order to do a satisfactory job we
need to know who we are and what to do at the right time, at the
right place and with the right people, engaged in the right activity.
And hopefully blessed by the Friend!
May
you enjoy a prosperous, happy, healthy, creative, productive New
Year, filled with useful knowledge, light, love and laughter! And
please don't feed the fears!
Ya
Haqq! Ishq bashad wa Baraka bashad! Saludos, Rahal
Eks
