Kira has been staying with us for a month.
Here is one of her homes.
Over the time we have known her she has transformed –
more than anyone else we have known.
Her behavioural patterns have almost disappeared.
They do still happen, and when they do she catches them.
I found that very touching.
(While she was here she organised all our practical
and financial issues, and cooked some great curries.)
We can hardly believe how much she does in her life –
and most of it for other people.
When she arrived she had 500 emails in her inbox!
Plus her visiting, and taking care of her several projects in Nepal –
and her psychic sessions (which are very, very good.)
She is exceptional, and a lot of it is to do with how her life is oriented
– awareness first, and how she takes care of people.
No longer having much sense of myself I asked her how she sees me.
She sent me the following …
Thanks Kira
Paul wrote:
Kira love, what do you say to people when they ask you
who/what is Paul Lowe like?
Kira wrote:
Hi love, here is what I wrote on my website blog about you:
I recently had an important 20th anniversary:
the anniversary of when I consciously decided I needed to find out ‘who
am I?’ … What an amazing journey this question has taken – and is still
taking – me upon!
I feel so grateful for the younger ‘me’ who had the courage to say yes to
this deeper inquiry, even though at the time I was really scared, lost and
unsure even of where to start. Thankfully, life helped me along… a lot!
After sitting on a rock in the Snowy Mountains, Australia, I came to one
of the most significant decisions in my life: not to continue with
corporate law, and instead to embark on a discovery of who I am and what life is
really about, and therefore what is really my purpose.
Two weeks after this epiphany, I met Paul Lowe, a significant and
inspiring teacher on my path who remains a mentor, and also my dear
friend, to this day.
Up until meeting Paul I had never really heard of ‘spirituality,’ nor even
of meditation. So when a friend said ‘come along and meet this crazy guy
who is teaching meditation this weekend,’ I surprised even myself
and responded ‘yes, why not?!’
Meeting Paul was a powerful confirmation of my recent decision.
He spoke to what I felt deep inside me, and it was as if I had met someone
to whom I could say everything I felt inside.
Over these past 20 years I have lived close enough to Paul’s life to know
that he really ‘walks his talk.’ I have experienced him going totally
into whatever is arising, until it is no longer relevant or appropriate.
This has had a deep impact for me personally as it has given me a living
example of someone who simply ‘goes for life,’ who says everything he
needs or wants to say, who goes wherever he wishes to go (I recall being a
part of a few of those experiences!), who shares his attractions and
sexuality fully, who says his truth in the simplest and most honest of
moments – way too many to write about.
They all flash before my eyes as examples over and over – especially
if I try to get around my own truth!
And then one of these moments comes as a reminder and encouragement
to open another level within my own life.
I find that Paul’s own quality of being total leaves him in a truly
remarkable place of being able to connect, relate, and tune in with people –
not their behavioral patterns, not their dramas or themes – but who they
really are. He is able to connect with simple clarity to where the person
really is, so that they can relate, soften, and hear him.
I cannot begin to count the number of times I have been a witness
to Paul in the depths of compassion through this meeting of another.
Be it in a group dedicated to communication or on the street with
strangers, or in a practical encounter like at the bank – without exception,
he meets the person.
Over the years I have known Paul, I have seen this refine and soften in
him, and then refine more … in ways I truly don’t have words for. Maybe the
nearest analogy would be a musician being in tune with his/her instrument
in a way that it comes to the point that it is simply always sweetly
singing …
When I consider an example of an ‘awake’ person, this is my reference
point, this level of ‘being with,’ which is deeply, intensely personal and
yet at the same time not personal at all … compassionate to a level that
includes practically taking care of a person physically or financially,
and at the same time being willing to share such an uncompromising level
of truth that it may make a close relative or friend disown him.
Without compromise or exception – he will ‘be with what is’.
I have in the past twenty years met many, many different people, teachers,
individuals – and Paul stands out as a light.
Even when I have felt very confronted by what Paul has said to me
personally about my own behavior, something else within me has realised
and recognised that what he has said has a ‘ring of truth.’
This has allowed me, in turn, to ‘be with’ what he has shared, to let it
in and thereby help my own evolution.
For this I am deeply appreciative and grateful.
Kira Kay
http://www.kirakay.com/blog/91-continuing-my-inspiring-people-dialogue-paul-lowe.html