The opposite of samsara

Samsara is associated with suffering, or dukkha. It's a part of life. Avoiding it is futile. Dwelling in it, creating it: optional. The opposite of samsara is when the walls we've built crumble, our cozy cocoon disintegrates, and we are open to the magic of "whatever." We step into it, naked, vulnerable, like a child.

I so love the symbolism of child's pose in yoga. We step onto the mat, take child's pose, becoming open to whatever comes our way, feeling playful, letting it be the first time we've stepped onto the mat, a new, fresh, surprising experience every single time. Child-like, we have no judgment, no expectations, no competition, no fears. We get out of ours heads and into the miraculous.

I am a warrior goddess. My journey is uncertain, unknown, and exactly taking shape as it should.

WAHE GURU WAHE GURU WAHE GURU WAHE JIO

The Lotus Flower

The beautiful flower from my post yesterday is the lotus. I love this flower for its spiritual symbolism:

Lotus flowers are amazing and have strong symbolic ties to many Asian religions especially throughout India. The lotus flower starts as a small flower down at the bottom of a pond in the mud and muck. It slowly grows up towards the water's surface continually moving towards the light. Once it comes to the surface, the lotus flower begins to blossom and turn into a beautiful flower.

People also grow and change into something more beautiful! So this symbol represents the struggle of life at its most basic form. The lotus flower is also symbolic for people who have gone through a hard time and are now coming out of it. Like the flower, they have been at the bottom, in the muddy, yucky dirty bottom of the pond but have risen above this to display an object of beauty or a life of beauty, as the case might be. Thus, the lotus flower also represents a hard time in life that has been overcome.

Om Mani Padme Hum!!!