Tiferet she’b Gevurah
Day Three of Week 2:Balance in Restraint
Not just love but compassion is also a necessary aspect of discipline for it to be balanced. That results in a discipline that is healthy, and not detrimental. Love comes from recognizing one's merits and positive qualities. Correct discipline channels and directs those strengths, reducing the influence of the negative. Compassion is unconditional. You love as a reflection of G-d. Tiferet is the expression of total selflessness in the eyes of G-d.
Yesterday Gevurah entered into this week of Gevurah, bringing focus to the emotional forms of our current creations and the gifts we encounter in our appreciation for the necessity of such forms.
This tenth day brings Tiferet into Gevurah – bringing harmony and balance into the sefirah of Limitation. Tiferet brings its fountain of calmness into Gevurah, and we are elevated into a greater clarity. With the energies of Tiferet we can know that the emotional forms in our lives have been conceived to allow us to grow on this journey.
It is this deep compassion of Tiferet, this deep knowing, that will allow Gevurah the flexibility to open to receive greater energies as we proceed on our journey of awakening. Concentrating on the connection of light between the left shoulder and the heart, we begin the process of releasing that which had been bound up. We notice a releasing of old judgements. We experience a dawning of the wonder when what was once closed now opens. Light springs forth from the shadows of our selves. This day allows us to meet ourselves anew.
The Heart of Life throbs within our chests, Life's Breath breathes its vitality into every cell of our beings. Through every action or dream or thought or deed, this Life moves through us. Life is an interaction, a co-operation, an interdependence. Life moves, shifts, and expands through and with us.