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You have received this Mentor to learn about the role of traditional values in your life and your ideal relationship. Your Mentor is a traditionalist who carries the power
of your religious beliefs and your personal values. This person knows and will remind you what is RIGHT and how to live a righteous life.
This Mentor's qualities are demonstrated in the following public roles:
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The Dalai Lama in his role as temporal and religious leader of Tibet, |
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The Pope as leader of Catholicism, |
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Queen Elizabeth II as the temporal and religious leader of the U.K. and Church of England, |
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The Emperor of Japan as the temporal and religious leader of Japan. |
These people embody their religious principles, and have histories, traditions, bureaucratic structures and dogma to substantiate their beliefs.
Getting in Touch with Your Mentor
In a tape-recorded description of your ideal relationship, explain how this goal is the RIGHT choice for your highest good and that of the other person. Play back and listen
to your explanation. Does your imaginary Mentor agree with your explanations? Make sure you are making choices your Mentor will endorse.
Your Mentor is freed from doubts. Most of us are not. Use this gift as it is called for, but remember to balance that righteousness with humanity and forgiveness.
Your Mentor's Special Gift to You
This Mentor will urge you to clarify your belief system (whatever it may be) and to set clear intentions for yourself with regard to your spiritual life.
Your Mentor has no ambiguity about how to create the perfect relationship and is sure to emphasize mutual responsibility and mutual respect. Your Mentor will help you to get
clear about what you want and will encourage you not to settle for anything less.
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Take some time to re-invent your goal. What are you looking for? What would make you
happy? The clearer your intention, the more clearly you "see" what you want, and the clearer your journey to that goal.
This is a very important time for you to pause, look at the dynamics of your life, refresh yourself and then look for the radiance within yourself before proceeding. Harmony,
balance and peacefulness are the qualities of this deepening.
Think of what we popularly know about Gandhi, the great man who led the people of India in their non-violent struggle for equal rights and separation from England's domination.
Frequently, Gandhi would retreat to think about what to do--to find the right response to England and to the many different factions in India. In these times of quiet reflection,
he found the right response to help create the balanced peace that powerfully led them to self-rule.
Gandhi's public life provided a model for many brave people who have followed. Martin Luther King, Jr., and even the anarchist Malcolm X found non-violence and balance to
be the optimum path.
You, too, must move to a place of unselfishly calling for the action that will yield the right result in your quest. The Message here is to develop love, compassion and harmony.
Find your center of harmony and stay focused on that balancing point. You need to make sure you properly use your emotions and not let them run you.
Beware of becoming isolated or dependent or too busy. Furthermore, beware of becoming distracted by trifles such as jealousy, dishonesty and substance abuse, obsessions,
doubting your own worth, fussiness, or possessiveness. All of these are vanities that derail success.
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Rituals are immensely powerful and used throughout our public and personal lives. We may joke about the ritualized aspects of our readying for work in the morning but there is a powerful quality to rituals that cannot be denied. We use them for every important time of our lives. So, we invite you to use that power in your journey.
A ritual has four elements:
- It must have a goal.
- The act of a ritual must have time and space boundaries, occur during a specific length of time, perhaps from the time you say �begin� until you say �end,� and occur in a specific location, perhaps in a garden bounded by four stones.
- A ritual must have a beginning, middle and end.
- The ritual must include a physical activity.
All of our rituals follow these four rules. Think of a marriage ceremony, a funeral, the swearing in of officials, the school year, a religious activity. Your ritual�s goal is to ask that you be given the strength to truly feel your competence to be alone, the warmth of your community for friends and supporters, and the appropriateness of your wonderful relationship.
We want you to include in your ritual a "Letting Go" and an "Acquisition" activity. Your Letting Go activity may be simply going to an empty place of worship and feeling the strength that resides in that place even when you are there alone.
Your Acquisition activity may be to stroll along in a playground feeling alone and yet connected as you watch children play, parents show concern or indifference, or romantic couples.
Before beginning your ritual, you decide its elements.
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