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COP21 Day 11: “Let love’s fire remain in my heart, and all else be burnt”
by Chris Akbar Miller
Climate Justice. Coalition Of High Ambition. 1.5 Degrees C. 5 year reviews. Loss & damage. Historical responsibility. Fossil-fuel phase out schedule.
Dear friends, these are the flashpoints that are up for grabs as the final draft gets worked over tonight and tomorrow in Paris by the world’s political leadership, then signed on Saturday.
As part of the world’s spiritual network and leadership, I am praying and asking you to pray and send your inner might that this final draft prevails in a fashion that sets us on a course for evolution, adaptation, and conscientious harmonization throughout the world.
Thich Nhat Hanh writes that “We need to change our way of thinking and seeing things, we need to wake up and fall in love with Earth.”
I spoke with Swami Sundaranand Ji at the source of the Ganges, high in the Himalaya Mountain Range, where he lives most of the year. He told me that in the next 10-20 years, this mighty river, the symbol of life in Hindusim, may run dry. I asked him what would it take for the world to turn around and to address climate change (which he has extensively documented through his photography: now receding and disappearing glaciers in the Himalaya). His answer: face what humanity has done so far.
Ya Tawwab – This is an opportunity for the world to answer the cries of conscience and own up to what greenhouse gasses have been emitted into the world thus far – and an opportunity for those countries that have polluted the most to take leadership in stymying future emissions.
On responsibility for thoughts and actions, Inayat Khan has this to say:
If a little pebble thrown into the sea puts the water into action, then one hardly stops to think to what extent this vibration acts upon the sea. What one can see is the little waves and circles that the pebble produces before one. One sees these, but the vibration that has been produced in the sea reaches much farther than man can ever imagine. What we call space is a much finer world. If we call it sea, it is a sea with the finest fluid. If we call it land, it is a land which is incomparably more fertile than the land we know. This land takes everything in it and brings it up, it rears it, it allows it to grow; our eyes do not see it, our ears do not hear it.
Does this idea not make us responsible for every movement we make, for every thought we think, for every feeling that passes through our mind or heart? There is not one moment of our life wasted, if we only know how to utilize our activity here, how to direct our thought, how to express it in words, how to further it with our movement, how to feel it, so that it may make its own atmosphere. What responsibility! The responsibility that every man has is greater than a king's responsibility. It seems as if every man has a kingdom of his own for which he is responsible – a kingdom which is in no way smaller than any kingdom known to us, but incomparably larger than the kingdoms of the earth. This teaches us to be thoughtful and conscientious and to feel our responsibility at every move we make. When a man does not feel this, he is unaware of himself, he is unaware of the secret of life. He goes on as a drunken man walking in a city. He does not know what he is doing, either for himself, or against himself.
Let our thoughts be golden pebbles, sending golden ripples into the sea of life…
And may these final hours of the COP21 Climate Summit begin a long road of friendship among nations to serve a common purpose – the conscientious loving, caring for and healing of our planet, each other, ourselves, and the generations to come.
Do Something: Upcoming Heart-Centered Ecology Online Events:
FINAL DAY OF COP21 MEDITATION & SOHBET with SARIDA BROWN – 3pm EST Friday Dec 11th
Heart & Climate Contemplative Conversation peering into the depths of our feelings and relathionship in regards to climate change – with Deepa Gulrukh Patel, Shams Khairys, Akbar Miller
3pm EST, Sunday Dec 13th
Call For Green Cherags – Are you a Cherag and interested in what it means to serve the planet’s ecosystem as part fo your ministry? Join the call! Details TBA – please RSVP to Akbar Miller, [email protected]
COP21 Daily Practice:
Ya Alim - Ya Wali - Ya Fattah
Oh Divine Intelligence, Oh Divine Teacher and Friend, please open the door
FINAL DAY OF COP21 MEDITATION “The Paris Climate Talks: The Parallel Achievement” - with Sarida Brown
Friday 11th December 12pm PST, 3pm EST, 20;00 UK, 21:00 Central Europe
*This will be via Zoom: click to participate: https://zoom.us/j/179588227
Or join by phone: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=XHPJGZpLQBCrNPQXlyywnALo3JR6yrTM
The Paris Climate Talks: the parallel achievement
We are seeing the wonder of a global network of prayer emerging more
strongly than ever before. The human heart is breaking and opening; the
nafs of humanity seems to be painfully coming into consciousness and
evolving. It is the cleaving of the old consciousness that allows the new
to pass through, the Holy Spirit, the light of intelligence.* ‘The Messiah
is born through the birthpangs of the human heart: from the rubbing
together of the human and divine worlds.’* (Rumi, Mathnavi)
After the end of the Paris talks, how may we continue to give life to our
global networks of prayer, to our love for our planet, to the spreading
light of awareness? How may we honour the way in which mystics, politicians
and environmentalists are opening to each other and infusing one broad
movement of love and action?
We will meditate on what is emerging at this time and our creative response
to our planetary crisis. We will share together in *sohbet* how we are
making this wave of global consciousness an evolving and daily reality in
our lives, with friends, families, neighbours and wider communities.
Out of the shell of the broken heart emerges the new-born soul.
Sarida Brown is Kefayat for the Healing Order, teaches and guides retreats,
offers healing and acupuncture, is very involved with Jungian body-mind
psychotherapy, and founded and edited*Caduceus Journal.* She believes that
healing is about embracing with love our earthly limitation together with
our yearning for wholeness.
