Some time ago I left the city after living for almost ten years in Battery Park City and moved with Fred to live by the healing waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the Hamptons, the 'big waters' of great Light and healing.I want to tell you about an experience of great transformation for me that I had some years ago. It was at the time that Fred and I were living together in Battery Park in an apartment on the water's edge. One morning I was walking through the lobby of the World Trade Center building one. When I entered the lobby I saw a group of about six or seven Lamas (Tibetan monks). They were creating a special kind of painting called 'sand painting'. I watched the Lamas as they held long instruments like long poles which they were blowing into these pipes to make painting using many different colors of sand. It looked like to me like so many different patterns of sand in all kinds of fabulous colors, like a rainbow, like a Mandala of sand.
On a side table close to them I found a printed story about sandpainting and what it means to the people and most especially to the monks of Tibet. I watched the Lamas who seemed to inhale and blow out the colored sand onto a huge table surface of about 20 x 40 feet in front of them. It looked to me like a very large blank canvas. Their work surface was set behind large glass, like walls partitioned off so that dirt, dust and people could not intefere with their work.
In the printed story they handed out the Lamas said that they would be doing their sandpainting over a period of almost a month's time. When the painting was complete, the Lamas would perform a very special ritual. Upon completion, they would physically by a sweep of hands across the painting, like the winds of time destroy their painting in a most poetic way,it was their way of ending the paintings life.
The whole experience I had with the Lamas and this painting felt to me like my breathe was taken away! The story they told on their page said that this end of the painting was done in just this way to demonstrate and show the fragility of beauty of life in this, our physical world. This Tibetan ritual was performed to remind us of the impermanence of this, our physical world that we live in and our experiencing right now. This beautiful 'illusion' that they had created over so many hours and weeks would now be destroyed in one moment of time with just one sweep of the hand.
Their story ended by saying that after the ritual was performed the sands of the painting would be collected and carefully put into a container. Then, the Lamas would walk out of the World Trade building, cross the road and take all the sand to the shore of the Hudson River. Here they would open up and empty the container releasing the sand into the flowing waters of the Hudson River.
I look back on this day as I sit here with you, and am aware how honored I was to be a part of the sand painting ritual, if only as an observer. I see the pattern of Life that is saying to me, ALL that remains at the end of our physical lives is the Love, yes the Divine Love that we each have given and received in our lives.
We, the Children of the Light are each like beautiful sand paintings. So light, so beautiful, so uniquely different, and all Divine Souls. We are part of the 'impermanance' of this world, we will all one day shift out of our energy bodies when we experience this thing called death. Then we will be instantly 'reborn' and take on our real eternal bodies, our Divine Light Bodies.I think back now on the time of the physical events that took place on September 11, 2001. Now, I let go of all that I had seen, touched, walked through in those World Trade Buildings for so many times. It was all next to my home in Battery Park, all of that place in time is now gone! In one flash of energy, poof it no longer exists anymore.
For me, the beauty and the love of my time with the Lama, the World Trade buildings still remain in my heart and soul. To those souls who passed on that day on 9/11, we can support them with our love, light, and energy.
I remember that all the Souls now live now in the realm of God's Eternity, from which we all come from and will return to one day. I believe that we are all blessed at this time of great changes, challenges and transformation. I believe we are asked as Souls of the Divine Source to become more loving, aware, and awake beings. This call for love is one that we can consciously choose to live and be in now. This Force of Unconditional Love asks us to love with an open heart and mind and also be open to give and receive this Love more and more!
I am part of this soul family of men with you and I am forever grateful to Serve this love energy, wherever and whenever I am guided to. We are called at this time to walk together in the Light and Love of the Divine Source.
We can All shine on and on and on like in John Lennon's song lyric, like the stars, moons and the suns. Love to you from my heart and soul.
I wrote the above story soon after the events of September 11, 2001. Now, I have been asked and guided to pass it on here it to you. I am so Blessed to share it with you.
Love Always, Katrina
