The power of a Mother

This post is dedicated to my Mother, and all the mothers in the world, and in Heaven.

Where do I start. Every day I understand deeper and deeper how much my mother has served me. Throughout my life I have gone through times where I have been young and stupid, older and stupid, think I know best, financial lows, and much more, and my mother has always been there for me.

She has supported me, encouraged me, and most of all loved me in ways I cannot express in words.

My mum is literally a one in a million YEARS in my opinion!
She has the heart of a saint. My mum is one of the most selfless people I have ever come across, and I have been so fortunate to have had many beautiful people in my life.

This post is called "The Power of a Mother" but I also mean the power of the feminine. Female energy is so powerful. 

The nature of the Tao is in my opinion is very Yin. Very submissive and yielding like water, 
Lao Tzu says in The Tao Te Jing:

"Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.
The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice."

How beautiful. It is true, the nature of Yin is incredible. In fact, the most powerful men are those who show their heart and their Yin nature.

I personally feel that the way of the future needs to be more feminine because for to long we have been living in a male dominated world, and where we are right now is a reflection of that.

So a mothers role is the most important in my opinion. The mother is the heart of the family. The mother is the nurturer. The forgiver.

My mother is strong beyond what she knows. I have three nieces in England who all adore my mother. They hang off her, they sleep over at her house every chance they get.
When she visits our family in Australia my son loves spending time with his nan.

But its not just the children. Everyone at home in England loves my parents house. My mother and father hold everyone together. My mother truly is the heart of the family.

My mother only knows two conditions - Love and selfless service. What else do we need? If Love and selfless service is all you have to offer the world then you will touch everyone you ever come in contact with, and that is exactly what my mother has done.
Everyone loves my Mum.

I want to take this opportunity to thank my wife too. I have been with my wife for 11 years and when I look at her she makes me so proud.
There is nothing like growing with a partner. I have seen my wife go from a young women to a loving mother, incredible wife and my best friend.

Danielle is so Yin and so strong. Her innocence is her strength. She has stood her ground with how she wants to raise our son Beau. There have been times when I have disagreed with Danielle, but I have to say that she is right.

She trusts herself, which is incredibly important. And she is so connected to our son that she feels what he needs.

I owe so much to my mother and my wife because they have both supported me in all that I do.

Before I found my spiritual teacher Master Sha and understood the purpose of my life, I searched high and low for something. I didn't know what it was back then, but I was searching for something.

I have done everything! I have gone from hobby to hobby, interest to interest. I would find something new like playing the guitar for example, and i would buy everything there was to buy, and do it everyday and think I had found what I was looking for! then I would get board and move on to the next thing.

I have done this my whole life. When I was young my mother would support me in whatever interest  had.
Then when I moved to Australia with Danielle, she supported me in whatever I was interested in.

Every time I would find a new interest Danielle would always buy me a gift that would support me. For example, I wanted to write screenplays for a while and I had many many ideas for movie scripts. That christmas Danielle bought me a screenwriting book and a boxset of interviews from all the most successful screen writers in the world.

Things like this have always moved me. 

When we found our spiritual Teacher, believe me, we where not looking for one. In fact, I didn't even know what one was, plus I was a atheist!

The one thing that I am grateful for is I don't have to search anymore. I have found what I was looking for, my spiritual path. This doesn't mean I don't still have hundreds of ideas. I do! I just know now what direction I am going, and that is one of making others happier and healthier.

I have heard Master Sha say 

"Every successful man has a strong women behind them"

This is so true. I judge success by how happy and peaceful one is. 
I feel so loved, so supported, so grounded, so happy because of the love and support from the people in my life.
I honestly feel like the luckiest man alive. And for that I want to give back whatever I can.

I also want to thank my spiritual mothers who have guided me my whole life, even though I have only truly been aware of them for the last 4 years.
Mother Mary, Ling Hui Sheng Shi (Guan Yin) and Da Shi Zhi Pusa (Intelligence Buddha).

These are my female Shi Fu's (Spiritual Masters). These have given me so much support and spiritual insight in some of my toughest times.

So to all the mothers in the world and throughout Heaven, and countless planets, stars, Galaxies and Universes, I want to say thank you. Thank you for being the force of unconditional love, which is the nature of the universe itself.

Thank you my beloved Mother. I can never pay you back for what you have given me, and still give me every day.

Thank you my beautiful wife for being the best mother to our son I could have ever asked for. And for being there for me always.

I love you all so very

much.

Love Nick

My beautiful mother, wife and son.