Last week,I met a friend, M, who is also practicing Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism and, when I went back to my place, I decided to give it a go. It has been a few weeks I didn't sit down in front of my altar.
I made the goal that I wasn't going to be moved into another Supported Housing Scheme but in MY home. Anything I need to change in my heart to manifest my home NOW, I transform now. A few things came up:
•My Gohonzon - Buddhist scripture I chant in front of - is my home ( it represents the entire Universe = my Life = me ) so, yes, I am home right here right now! In the present moment.
•I let go of the past - resentment and hurt
I had a memory of my Daughter - when she was small - running ahead of me to our flat - the one we got after the women's shelter. I remembered how grateful I was that we got a home and that we were happy... It is all gone. I started crying. I still feel sad and upset about my landlord sexually assaulting me and then we moved and then... I ended up losing everything... A lot of grief came back up to the surface. Am I really going to ever be happy??? All I wanted/ want is to be happy!!
Today I managed to chant more and more things came up:
•Thinking of a conversation we had in therapy earlier this morning, I realised how I never felt I belonged with my parents, at home, in school, in this world. "I am a mistake. I shouldn't be here." This is my unconscious old tape. I reminded myself: I am home here, where the Gohonzon is, in this room, in this Lifetime, in this world. I have a purpose, a mission only I can fulfil.
•Letting go of the past went a bit deeper with the following prayers: "I send Daimoku (mantra) to all those who hurt me the most as they are those who suffer(ed) the most. I still need to detached myself from their behaviour in order to protect myself bit it is time to let go of them and of the hurt and resentment.
•Re-thinking of my Daughter and our life together: life has changed. She's grown, I've grown... Life is different, new and scary... Again it is about letting of the past and accepting our life as it is.
•I reminded myself that, under all these layers of hurt, pain, lies I was told and took as my true identity, there is my very core, my eternal self, my real identity: Buddhahood. Every time I chant I make it shine in such a way that all these negative layers don't have such an impact but my Buddha Nature does...
A lot to take in, in such a short time! I am going to let it all sink through me. I let the Universe show me and lead me. I am still feeling exhausted and quite depressed. I have to remind myself constantly how it is ok for me to rest and to stop fighting... stop resisting. It is ok not to be in control of everything. It is ok not to know. I will know when I am ready. It is ok to be scared...
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