We celebrate Christmas for two practical reasons:
— every culture, everywhere celebrates the Winter Solstice around this time as the hopeful sign of the end of the cooling seasons (Full Yin) and the beginning of the warming seasons ( Commencing Yang). This season reveals the Tai Chi of our Solar experience.
— Jesus, Son of Nazareth, son of Mary and Joseph, a profoundly advanced master of the energy arts, was born on or near this day.
It is such a blessing of convenience that there is a transnational, transdenominational connection to nature for all societies to celebrate together at this time.
Shamans, Qi Cultivators and Magi from every distant land witnessed that star.
I am personally a Christian with the greatest appreciation for Jesus, his family and the best practices of his lineage – love, compassion, forgiveness. Jesus assuredly had amazing teachers and his father, our father — universal essence — loves and instructs us just as S/He loved and instructed Jesus — through direct revelation. That is, it seems very likely, our practice.
The views of Jesus on the cultivation of our transcendental nature are very pure inspiration.
Two favorite quotes from the Master:
“The light in the body is concentrated in the eye: if therefore thine eye be single (focused on ONEness), thy whole body shall be full of light.“
Matthew 6:22, 23
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to the Father. And whatsoever you ask in hallowed sincerity, that will be supported, so that the ONEness (Our Father) may be glorified in the in the Sons and Daughters.“
John 14:12,13
Regarding translation – Jesus spoke in Aramaic and was translated many times and ways under the influence of Hebrew, Byzantine, Greek, Alexandran (Egytian), Roman, and finally European culture, language and politics. It is fair to suspect that any number of alterations were injected in these phrases. Just as the translators felt comfortable finding the words to use, you are invited to consider what words express what you sense Jesus was saying.
Enjoy the influx of Light, may it be enlightening!