That’s where the idea of inner peace comes from. If you can find peace within yourself, you will find peace within the world. This is often confused with a kind of purification process, a process of removing inner darkness and searching for light. However, this is a big mistake, because it is only about the feminine side of the inner life.
The masculine side of our inner world is destructive. If we disconnect from that masculine side in some form of feminine-based spiritual quest, we disconnect from many of the capacities that make us strong in the face of challenge. The ancient masters in the Laws of Nature taught, “Disconnecting from any inner experience, whether male or female, frees that experience to run wild and migrate into nuances, harmonics, and unconscious action.”
This participation is of the utmost importance to you. If you are doing your personal practice every day to be a “good” or “peaceful” person, then you are most likely disconnecting from your darker side. In doing so, you might think “I am free from destructive masculine energy”, but this is not really what you have done. By disconnecting from your darker side, you have freed the tiger to roam without obedience. It will permeate your life, like an undercurrent.
I have always been honest with you in these TIPS for life. And here there is no exception. The Laws of Nature do not lead to a specific outcome for your inner wealth, but instead focus on giving you honest mastery over your inner mastery. The male side is absolutely no exception.
Consider the sacred symbol of the pyramid only in two dimensions as a triangle. Consider the top of the pyramid, the pinnacle of unity with all heavenly creation, and the base, unity with all earthly creation. Below the right side is the feminine and above the left side is the masculine.
The feminine takes heavenly or divine inspiration and “births” it on earth. So everything passes from thought to manifestation through the process of the feminine. This is called creation. Symbolically, we are told that God delivered his son to earth, or so-and-so went up the mountain and came down with the truth. This is simply honoring the process of creation, the feminine.
So, the bottom of the pyramid is earthly life. Coming to peace means facing all earthly experience as it is reflected within you. So, it means, “what you see, you are”. The outer world you witness, from love to war, is simply a reflection of your inner richness. Those parts outside of you that you hate, you also hate inside of you. No process of meditation or collapse can remove a trait.
The masculine side of the pyramid is destruction. Now, like all traits, including female traits, male traits can be used for harm (if not exploited) and for good. Destruction means change. It means leaving the past behind. Masculine forces signify the ability to release. Take off. Reorder. To keep your intention. letting go
There are many men and women who are not in touch with this masculine energy. They have misjudged him, either in themselves or in others. It does not matter which. For many people their spirituality or religious practice is an attempt to escape from this “dark” masculine energy. But male energy is 50% of our healthy existence. Both men and women have this.
Let me share an example. Through my work and my friendships, I meet many gay men. They always want to present themselves as feminine, artistic and creative. However, it doesn’t take much to rile his anger. One word out of place, one comment out of place and they get angry. This anger is the tiger that runs to lose.
There are many “spiritual” people who want the world to be a better place who try to eliminate the masculine side. They try to find “bliss” or “inner peace” which is the absence of destructive energy, the masculine side. His peace is easy to disturb. Their emotions are in control of them instead of them being in control of the emotion. They eat emotionally, they think emotionally, they talk emotionally, because they cannot tame the tiger that could help them. Discipline, willpower, commitment, detachment, liberating forces are all masculine, and have generally been dismissed as “evil.”
In my consulting practice, there was a lady who was so fat she could barely fit through my door. She was so big that I had to get two chairs, one for each cheek. She hated her father so much, well not her father, but all the traits that her father represented to her. Violence, force, disconnected, emotionless, betrayal, broken trust. She hated those traits so much that she had no ability to control her emotional moods. Her inner richness was so diminished because she wanted to be half a person. The tiger went wild inside her and basically ate to kill it. (or softer)
The ancient teachers of the laws of nature held that if you want to own your inner world and therefore the outer world, you must make friends with your entire inner being. They suggested that the easiest way to do this was to learn to experience the emotion, without expressing it. Witness angry feelings, but keep the energy in check.
We call this the art of stillness. Simply sitting or lying down, in perfect stillness, and then tapping, experiencing, witnessing and celebrating all the masculine and feminine energy forces within you. Touch and find the energies of both creation and destruction. Learn the skills of emotional creation and the ability to let go at will.
The ancient teachers of the laws of nature did not prescribe a course of action. They simply advocated self-honesty. This is not a process with a defined outcome. It is a journey within. In the light and dark reaches of your inner wealth. A journey to reach inner peace. It means befriending the inner masculine and feminine forces. This is a stark contrast to the teachings and expectations of most modern young gurus.