Mother Teresa and Shim Sung
By widemother on Oct. 1, 2007.
Today I read an online article in Newsweek on Mother Teresa and her crisis of faith. According to the article, from two months after she started her own order, she faced doubt and fear about the presence of God. She felt emptiness inside and like she was going through a long, dark tunnel. In the author’s view, ”all the things that made Mother Teresa famous—the endless hard toil, the bitter austerity, the ostentatious religious orthodoxy—were only part of an effort to still the misery within….If Santayana was right to define fanaticism as ‘redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim,’ then Mother Teresa’s international crusade against divorce, abortion and contraception was the tribute that doubt paid to certainty: a strenuous and almost hysterical effort to drown out the awful fear of ‘absence’.”
I can identify with that way of dealing with doubt and fear. Luckily, Dahnhak and Brain Education have taught me ways I can use to really connect to myself, my heart, and my passion inside. I am not completely informed, but I feel like if Mother Teresa’s body and chakras weren’t in the poor condition they sound like they were, she would not have felt as cold and empty, and that, even while working hard, she could learn to connect to the source within. It seems trite to say, because she is such a famous personage who has helped many people, and I admire her very much, but it sounds like Mother Teresa needed to take Shim Sung.
One Response to “Mother Teresa and Shim Sung”
Few of us can become a Mother Teresa. Yet we can relate to her very human dilemmas caused by fear and doubt. I cannot recommend highly enough the course that Dahn Yoga Centers run called Shim Sung, or the Joy of Discovering the True Self. In this two-day intensive, with pre- and post-training components, the world of the soul opens up to be contrasted with that of the ego.
By Larry on Oct 2, 2007