The 7th Annual Mystic Rose Festival Celebration
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The 7th Annual Mystic Rose Festival Celebration
We recently celebrated the 7th annual Mystic Rose Festival at the Ashram. The Rosa Mystica has, throughout our history, been the symbol of the divine feminine, the radiance of the Goddess, and of the pure love that she evokes in all hearts.
This year’s timeless gathering was set in Ancient China, and brought together all of the dragon-hearted Daoist Sat Yogis for an extraordinary weekend event: beautiful, profound satsangs with Shunyamurti on the essence of the Dao, a play adaptation of Turandot performed by the Sat Thespians, a culinary feast sponsored by the Rose of Kashmir Kitchen, and an opportunity for the sangha to reflect upon the meaning of this moment in time in the dreamfield.
“We must integrate heart and mind, and integrate it into the great Dao, not simply just as a separate, individual being, but the Beingness of all that is. The great Dreamer of the one dream must be your true identity, in which there is no emotional body, but only the blissful Self, which is bodiless.”
~Shunyamurti
After a transformational closing teaching in which Shunyamurti interprets some of the great Daoist sage Zhuangzi’s teachings, Radha Ma shared an inspirational poem, “Jade Broth”, which she called “the sacrifice of the emotional body for heart nectar, spoken for all.”
Her vast night of hearts, the full cup Her major arcana of Zen and Death Singing and mourning Mourning and singing One Self, as Fool
Now the moon! On clear Zen mountain Clear Zen light Mystic rose glowing in the night Sky rose shines as the new China Ancient future will refine ya
In fullness, new energy sings Music of heaven appears as its miracle While China and Italy unite in this spectacle
Listen! Aura of full night pearl Is pure rose, Lighting up the dark Even the stones sing to Her Art
Oh Zen sky, the perfected painting of light and dark Begins in the dragon-congealed heart This full moon shines in everyone’s room The dream that began with polished jade Thanks to the intelligence of our sage
And as every mystic rose knows, Roses need water and fire to grow They bloom in crescendo from the Father’s metal He coheres all the elements and the Rose Expresses them in her petals
In the air of vast understanding As full as the moon’s white Zen light The darkest night produces light Below, all is fire-burning with spiritual desir
This clear Zen mountain is the rose fountain
RADHARANI NATASHAKTI, February 28th, 2021
May the Dao of Shiva be with you!
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