Chapter XIX of Rio Plus 20 Document by Cho Tab Khen Zambling (Alfredo Sfeir Younis)
XIX. Embracing Feminine Energy
Global warming is the mirror image of a major imbalance between feminine and masculine energy, biased towards masculine energy. Our inner warming experiences that imbalance too. Thus, global and inner warming has a strong component of masculine energy and, therefore, curving down warming inside and outside us requires rebalancing masculine and feminine energy in favour of the feminine. Wisdom is rooted in our different forms of energy. Wisdom surfaces through those energies, and one of the most powerful is the “feminine energy”. Feminine energy is in all that exists, materially and spiritually. It is not exclusively embodied in women or female existence. The same applies to masculine energy that is in everything that exists on those two realms. Thus, every human being and living being may develop and manage the existing feminine energy.
We naturally think of our planet as having a predominantly female energy, and we generally refer to it as Mother Earth. In one way we consider ourselves to be her children because the planet itself gives, grows and nurtures life. In our society both men and women are involved with taking care of the planet and environment. But to actually heal the environment, the female energy is more suitable and therefore more powerful than the male energy. If we carefully check on the energy level and look at the qualities of the male and female energies, we will see that women naturally have more feeling, are more sensitive, and have a greater sense of responsibility towards the environment and the nurturing of life than men.
Most of the wars and weapons that have led to mass destruction in our history have been created by men. Through the ages, we have collectively held the wrong view that, if necessary, we should take care of our society, homes, family and environment by force. Until now male energy has also been used to make war on the natural environment. It is now time for us to use the female energy to make peace with our environment. Women’s energy works mainly through feelings and sensations and so, they have a particularly special sensitivity for life and the natural environment. They also possess a very special intuitive wisdom quality. Women are the holders of many traditions, as they are responsible for the day to day family stability and the passing on of many cultural aspects and customs to the next generation. You can see in many ancient societies which are in transition, such as the Tibetan community in exile that women will continue to follow the traditions and customs for a longer time than men. In these times women are definitely more attuned and sensitive to spiritual energies and traditional wisdom than men.
All of us began life and developed for nine months inside the womb of our mother. Immediately after birth, we were completely helpless, we could only cry, sleep and drink milk, but our mother, through her great love for us, took very good care of us from that time until now. If we were born in a traditional society, our mother also arranged many auspicious healing ceremonies, divinations and astrological charts to be made for us. On the absolute level, this female energy can be felt as “space quality” and as the carrier of the wisdom of emptiness and dependent arising. As we stated earlier, it is from the space of emptiness that all the phenomena of the outer and inner worlds arise, and this we sense when we call our planet Mother Earth.
We are all born from the space of our mother’s womb, the “space quality” gives them the possibility to nurture life and give birth. The connection between these energies and functions gives the woman a stronger natural feeling to take care of the environment. The womb is a very small place when we enter it, about the size of a finger, yet this small space is able to hold all the essence of our human energy. Conception is the true moment of birth as a human being, although we have to wait for nine months before our body is sufficiently developed to leave our mother’s womb and function by itself in the outside environment. The space held within this union and the fundamental consciousness is bigger than all of the space in the universe. In this space all of our karmic records are stored, the imprints of all the good and bad thoughts, words and actions that we have done during all of our lives.
We need to utilize both the male and female energies on our path to liberation and to address environmental phenomena. Over the past years, the balance between the male and female energies has been lost as we have emphasized the male energy more and more. This has brought us many benefits in terms of technological progress, but now we are beginning to realize that this excessive male energy has been too expensive as we measure the associated aggression, competitiveness, and desire to conquer the environment and other cultures. We have had many wars and experienced many deaths, and now the whole environment and elements are polluted, sick, weak and dying. To overcome this we have to collectively recognize and learn that the female energy is very precious and sacred, and that women’s intuitive wisdom is worth listening to.
Both men and women have suppressed their female energy, and so now, both need to get in touch with the positive side of their female energy to address global and inner warming. We feel deeply that we are unable to feel space. We see all the things around us and we feel crowded, we feel that we would like to live alone or stay in a quiet place. This means that we actually feel the need to use relative space energy to make peace. After we have spent some time alone we recover our peace and then we feel that we can return to our normal busy lives. Absolute space is the best chance we have to overcome our deep problems. Our body and mind consist of five energies which are: body, speech, mind, quality and action.
We should clearly understand that it is very important for us to develop the female energy of peace-space, weather-space, or action-space in our daily lives. On the gross level we can see the elements around us in the form of mountains, sea, air, space, fire and so on. These five elements pervade all phenomena, but their relative percentages vary. For example, we can say that a mountain is made up of earth because it has a high percentage of the earth element, but within the mountain there are also present smaller percentages of the space, fire, wind and water elements.
In global warming we may perceive lots of the fire element at stake, but it is important to know that all the other elements are also involved. Earth in the form of particles, and wind and space as embodied in the phenomena and also water! This has major implications for the battle against global and inner warming. Specifically, it suggests that global warming and inner warming will be effectively addressed only as a result of a very comprehensive natural resource management strategy, and not only out of focusing on just the traditional forms of air pollution.
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