Daily Angel Oracle Card, from the Universal Wisdom Oracle Card deck, by Toni Carmine Salerno: Buddha Nature

Buddha Nature: “Bring your awareness from the external world, to the world within. Breathe in the present and let go of all concern about the past and the future. Remember that eternity exists within each moment. Our past is imprinted in our memory and therefore forms part of the present. Look Back at your past experiences. You will find that it stirs up both pleasant and unhappy memories. We tend to reduce each experience to either good or bad and in the process we rarely see all the blessings in our lives.

Though you may not always see it, everything happens for a reason. Your soul has chosen each of your experiences for it’s own growth. This can be a challenging concept to embrace, given the pain, suffering and injustice in the world. Why would the soul choose such experiences?

At times, life seems to make no sense and we feel that if there is a God, then He, She or It, must have simply stuffed it all up. We will probably never fully understand the will of the soul just as we will never understand the mind of God.

You have picked the Buddha Nature Card in order to release the anxiety and trauma stemming from a past experience and start to live fully in the present. Realize that by focusing on the past or the future, you are being robbed of the present time. Make a conscious choice to cut all negative ties with the past and to stop worrying about what the future holds.

Bless all your life experiences and release them with love. Accept that there is a higher purpose to everything in life even though we may not understand it. Know that there is a gift to be found in all experiences and with time, this gift will be revealed to you. Reclaim your life by directing all of your precious energy into this moment.”*

I have a crazy story from last weekend that I’m now ready to share, as this card prompts me to do so. On Saturday night, just before bed time, I asked my kids to go put their pj’s on. My son left the room and went to his bedroom to get changed. My daughter, a busy and enthusiastic kid at the best of times, decided to take one last big “slide” on our hardwood floors in brand new slippery socks that she had gotten for her birthday just the day before. She slid full tilt into the filing cabinet at the end of the room, bouncing off it right onto her face on the floor. The worst part of all of this is that she landed right on one of her lovely new permanent “adult” front teeth, and smashed half of it off. Needless to say chaos ensued. I leapt up from the couch and bolted for her, taking about 3 steps when I felt a big painful “pop” in the back of my left calf muscle, collapsing to the floor. By this time all four of us in the family are in tears, we are all feeling very emotional and vulnerable and like we would love to go back about 5 minutes into the past and fix it all. Calming down, we made a call to the dentist, and my husband did the exam of her tooth while I answered the questions. I couldn’t look. We made an after hours trip to the dentist to have a temporary patch put on the tooth, and then headed to ER, where we spent the next 4 hours waiting to hear what I had done to my leg. Four hours later, the orderly handed me a set of crutches and told me that the Doctor had said that I had torn the tendons in my left calf, and would be on crutches for about 10-14 days. Could definitely have been worse! The last thing that happened as we left the hospital made me wonder if it was why all of this had happened.

There was a clean cut teenager/young adult male in Triage who was having probably the worst night of his life… well so far anyway. He was heaving, and throwing up and screaming and crying, purple-faced at the top of his lungs things such as “I CAN’T SEE!!! I CAN’T FEEL MY ARMS!!! I CAN’T FEEL MY LEGS”, and “I CAN’T BREATHE.” All while the nurses where trying desperately to figure out what type of drugs he had taken. He screeched and screamed and and cried like a baby at the top of his lungs, let me tell you, he was quite the sight to behold. The best part? None of it was lost on my two young, impressionable kids, who stopped to watch him, frozen. “That is what happens when you take drugs”, I said. My daughter said “Mommy, why didn’t you just tell me that? I don’t want to see it.” Well, it was Divine timing, the Angels wanted you to see that so that you would never do drugs, you would think of that boy, and you would know what could happen to you if you did.

Suddenly, I felt peace with all that had happened that night. I knew, that sometime in the future, that lesson will come back like a freight train when my kids are faced with peer pressure and have to make a very serious and possibly life altering decision. Whether or not to take drugs. Thank you Angels, they now have the tools to make the right decision…. and off to the dentist we go!

Namaste

*Universal Wisdom Oracle Card deck, by Toni Carmine Salerno