COMPASSION IN DISCIPLINE - day 10 TIFERET sh b'GEVURAH

COMPASSION IN DISCIPLINE - day 10 TIFERET sh b'GEVURAH

 which is one week and three days of the Omer

Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer - ספירת העומר

PSALMS OF MY SOUL

© Joy Krauthammer 

In my own garden (where wild ducks made their home) I watched day after day how ducks in Tiferet / compassion care for each other. With Gevurah / discipline and taking turns, one duck stays alert upright while the other eats.

How do I from this central core on the Tree of Life, Tiferet, mediate my Gevurah? When I critique another (in photography, writing, design, relationship), is it with compassion and that I want person to be strong and be better?  

I've learned to make a 'sandwich' with my critique. Say something positive, offer criticism, say positive with the final thought. (Sometimes not so easy.)

Even Maror/bitter herb, in the Ari’s Seder Plate ordered arrangement, is placed in the plate's center, in the place of the heart. In Consciousness we eat the bitter that can be Gevurah and yet with a bit of sweet (dipping in the Charoset).

How do we learn compassion and discipline from other creatures?

As parents, in Tiferet, how do we use Gevurah?

G*d's life force is within each creature created. 

On the Berry College 'live cams' I watch from the time nests are created (hopefully high from human and predator intervention), eagle eggs are laid, baby eagles are born breaking from their shells, and how their parents carefully care for eaglets as each day goes by until on their own, eaglets are able to fly and feed and fend for themselves. In a few months, birds leave an empty nest. (After years, children sometimes never leave.)

Tiferet / Beautiful Duck Couple

© Joy Krauthammer  5.1.2016

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