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The Lost Voice
Thomas Merton spoke of “Beingness” as a mystic’s profession.
The yin, the realm of yin, is a place of BEing. In the ancient ying/yang symbol, both opposites are equally important and complementary. Both are within us all, representing energies rather than gender. While masculine yang energy is acting and doing, feminine yin energy is being and receiving. The mantra of the feminine yin could be ‘ I amplify in stillness”.
Yin doesn’t DO, it laughs at the thought of control or planning an unplannable future. It surrenders, utterly, in a supple, but fierce knowing, to the divine. The power that comes from that surrender is hard to pin down. It’s like liquid power; hard to contain, but when directed and held by a strong Presence, creates the contours of the Garden.
Exploring the depths of yin is like leaping off a precipice of the known mind, it’s the bard’s leap into the unknown depths of unlimited potential. From the yin it’s possible to create and hold space to dream up a new way of being, from the very Beingness in which dwells that possibility.
Yin understands we are nature, that technology will never change the fact that we are made of the same minerals in the soil, the same water of the oceans, that we are indistinguishable from nature’s web. That all sentient life is born from an underworld womb, that all life on Earth is ruled by sun…
