Kanyini

In Each Other We Find Ourselves

There is a spiritual purpose that only you can fulfill. As you move forward on your journey, you create space for others to move along behind you, and as the ones ahead of you move forward, so too does room open for your expansion. Upon this earth we are all building the sacred temple, each fulfilling our tasks as we assist and support each other in our collective mission. How can you help with your heart most actively engaged? What can you offer which inspires and energizes you so much that others are uplifted in your presence? How can you receive from others joyfully, bringing them pleasure? Engage in giving and receiving deeply and with devotion. Your wisdom and openness to life generates healing for our Earth.

In A Reading

Healing is indicated, especially of wounds about connection and trust, safety and tribe, belonging and permission to be a unique individual. At a physical level, more vitality is indicated, and ample energy for healing. At a spiritual level, a deepening awareness of unified consciousness is opening up within you which will bring you into deeper divine communion and increase your effectiveness as a healing presence and sacred activist in this world. You have a destiny to fulfill, and there will be much help from many different people to fulfill it. The Universe wants you to succeed. Do not hesitate to ask and receive assistance, for your fulfillment of your own mission helps others.

Spiritual Guidance

The First Peoples of Australia recognize sacred connectedness between the spiritual and the earthly, and the bond that exists between all beings. They refer to this as kanyini. In South Africa, the concept of ubuntu describes a universal bond connecting all of humanity. Ubuntu and kanyini honor the understanding that the individual grows and develops, flourishes and expresses purpose and meaning in connection with the greater guiding purpose of the collective. To honor kanyini, to honor ubuntu, means to honor ourselves and each other as we seek out and fulfill our purpose for the greatest good. Our purpose is what brings our being to life, what we feel we must naturally do. There is loving and healing genius in the divine design and in the fulfillment of our authentic spiritual destiny. So are all beings assisted in the fulfillment of their destiny, too.

There are times when the spiritual path requires separation from a collective and the consciousness it holds. We may feel an internal disconnection from society during such phases, as we sift through the societal conditioning, casting aside that which does not strike us as truth and seeking alternative views. As we distill our consciousness, we discover a new way to be. Then, when it is time, we naturally seek to live and share this internal truth with others. We reach out to out tribe – or discover new tribes – integrating into the social fold with our precious offering of rarefied awareness. We realize that conflict with societal values serves a purpose. It helps us to clarify or own consciousness, so we grow stronger spiritually, psychologically and emotionally. Our offering to our communities can then become a numinous alchemical wisdom.

A person in alignment with kanyini becomes a conduit for the intelligence of life itself. Their personal journey has a transpersonal effect. They become sacred activists at a deep level of being. Through their presence, things happen. They become a natural catalyst for healing transformation. A human enriched with ubuntu is open to others, encouraging of the good in other human beings. They are self-assured, knowing that they have an inviolable place and purpose in life. They understand that they can only gain from assisting others. So the spiritual progress of another person, and the sacred empowerment that comes from it, is inspirational, rather than a source of jealousy or self-doubt. In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the principles of kanyini and ubuntu are found in the Bodhisattva Vow, where great souls plunge themselves into sacred service for the spiritual liberation of all sentient beings. These teachings help us evolve from competition to the realization that the moment another is oppressed, denied or diminished, suffering is released into the collective. The more sensitive we are spiritually, the more we recognize this – and the more motivated we become to serve the evolution of humanity for the benefit of all beings.

Kanyini reminds us that we can’t thrive as a human being in isolation. Our humanity happens in connection with each other, through our relationship to the earth and Great Spirit. Spirit wants this for each one of us. We are provided the grace to heal wounds and open our hearts so that we can discover our belonging to each other and to the Divine – and through this, an authentic and compelling sense of devotion to the purpose that heals our world.

Healing Process

Find a place to sit or lie comfortably. Imagine, feel or visualize that every being on earth is being blessed by divine love. Silently, with reverence and joy, see every being captured within a circle of golden light. It wraps itself lovingly around the earth. Plants, animals, human beings, trees, bugs, lost souls and isolated humans – all beings are included in the divine encircling embrace. A feeling of peace, unity and healing builds within this circular field.

Rest here as long as feels good. When you are ready, gently arise from your meditation and say: May all beings know peace, divine love and merciful protection. May each one of us know true belonging and fulfill our sacred purpose with open hearts and willing minds. So be it.

Place your hands in prayer and bow your head.

You have finished your healing process.