The Magic of the Scented Flowers: Unfolding the healing power of The Scented Flowers of Sinjin-Ka in crafting an elegant and magical life

By Martin Hart

The Scented Flowers of Sinjin-Ka, a collection of ninety-one short tales, touches lives through its magical, humorous, and moving stories. The Magic of the Scented Flowers takes these stories to another level, a personal healing level.  It's written as a guide for self-exploration and as an oracle of self-dis

• Language: English
• Publisher: ASAT Press
• Release date: Jun 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9780989551847

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The Oracle of

The Scented Flowers

The Commentaries

1

The Fool and the Apple

Suggested Areas of Attention

*Let go of your investment in struggle, pain, and hardship. Stop trying to make your life work. Be open to allowing it to flow and fulfill synchronously. Choose elegance and ease in the living of your life.

*Pay attention to the beliefs and attitudes, thoughts and feelings, and choices and decisions you make and hold that restrict your happiness and the hearing of your destiny’s call.

*Be aware of your fear of magic and your need for control. Choose magic over control. The two cannot co-exist.

*Let go of the sweet intoxication of martyrhood and your addiction to conflict and crisis.

*Step away from consensus thinking. You’ll never be happy or genuinely fulfilled there. You’ll never be at home there.

There are two ways to fulfill a desire: consciously and unconsciously. Choose ‘consciously.’ It’s more fun, and you’ll awaken more of your authorship.

There are two approaches to fulfilling a desire: through effort or elegance. Choose ‘elegance.’ It’s more fun, and you’ll allow more of your magic to flow.

Elegance and harmonious living result when one lives life consciously and in alignment with the rhythms and patterns of All That Is.

In Nature, only humans value hard work and toil. We elevate effort to a noble status while relegating elegance and synchronous living to the domain of fools and holy men. We hold Promethean and Sisyphean struggles and martyrhood as exemplifying grand and heroic pursuits while subjugating a life lived in ease and effortlessness to the realms of the filthy rich, the half-wits, and the lazy.

O’ How noble the struggling hero! proclaims consensus thinking with pride and admiration.

But it’s the ‘Wise Fool’ who knows the secrets of living, not the struggling martyred hero. It’s the Wise Fool who knows the secret magic of play, grace, and fun, who is adrift in the fluidity of all existence, and who knows that life’s an illusion and that we can have as much of illusion as we like. And it’s the Wise Fool who lives such a magical life. And it’s the Wise Fool who plays in the Fields of the Divine.

Be a Wise Fool, dear one. Choose it as your life’s ambition. Open to the ever-flowing synchronicities abounding in such a choice. Be a magician in the living of your life. Always dance the dance of the Wise Fool. It’s a fool’s dance, it’s an ancient dance, and it’s an eternal dance with God/Goddess/All That Is. It can be your dance if you’re brave and wise and foolish enough to dance it.

To become the Wise Fool you’re destined to be, be conscious of your resistance to synchronous living. Own and release your need to struggle and toil.

To become the Wise Fool you’re destined to be, identify your valuing of a martyred life, and choose a higher path.

To become the Wise Fool you’re destined to be, allow your desires to manifest. Be conscious of your resistance to such successes. Be willing to release it.

To become the Wise Fool you’re destined to be, face your fear of magic, and let go of your need to control.

To become the Wise Fool you’re destined to be, always be in pursuit of the ‘more of you’ by challenging your limiting beliefs and attitudes, thoughts and feelings, and choices and decisions.

To become the Wise Fool you’re destined to be, step away from the false safety and constricting boundaries of consensus thinking. Make your path and travel it. Don’t follow the path of others.

If you do these things, you’ll find the freedom you’ve sought for all your many lifetimes. Eventually, dear one, there’ll come a time when you’ll find yourself on no path at all. Then you’ll be Home. Imagine that, dear one! You’ll be Home! Wherever you are, whatever you do, you’ll be Home.

Being ‘Home’ is not a place but a state of being. It’s where you co-create with God/Goddess/ All That Is worlds yet unimagined. It’s where existence exists in freedom, and existence exists in Oneness. It’s where you once were, and where you’ll be once again. And it’s in such a state real living begins. It’s also where you can manifest apples from a mango tree.

God /Goddess/All That Is are waiting for you there.

Are you fool enough to make the journey?

2

Not Enough Enough

Suggested Areas of Attention

*Start healing the shame you carry, this shame born of your own making or passed to you by others.

*Stop believing you’re undeserving and that you’re not enough.

*Attend to your lack of confidence as well as your need for attention.

*Recognize, acknowledge, forgive, and release your self-limiting beliefs and attitudes.

*Take the pressure off yourself. Lighten up and enjoy your life!

Shame is the belief you’re flawed, defective, or broken.

Everyone, to a greater or lesser degree, holds the resonance of shame. We came to this belief in waves, beginning in childhood and continuing throughout our adolescence and into our adult years. We were either taught we were broke or defective, were wronged into it by being put into situations we couldn’t emotionally handle or came to it through the ravages of abuse.

The destructive nature of shame is devastating. It distorts, impedes, and stifles loving relationships and denies the realization of our more real self. Shame denies us a sense of genuine fulfillment from successes and accomplishments. Shame holds us back from our life’s pursuit of ‘becoming more.’

You’re not broken or defective you just believe you are. In harboring this lie, you attract realities to either prove you’re not or to prove you are.

This hidden belief underlies other destructive beliefs we hold, like the belief we’re undeserving, the false notion that we’re incapable of love, fulfillment, success, and the erroneous belief that we can’t be happy because we’re not worthy of it.

I can’t do it!

I’m not good enough!

I don’t have enough!

I need extra help!

Some compensate by adopting the even more destructive counter belief that they’re somehow special; that they’re either better or worse than others. Some seek attention or wallow in the doldrums of self-pity.

I’ll never have what others have!

Good things never happen to me.

I need extra attention!

Poor me! Poor me! Poor Me!

You don’t need to prove you’re enough by accomplishing what others accomplish or by having what others have. There’s no need to prove anything. If you feel you lack what you need to craft an extraordinary life, just ask for what is missing. What you need will be given; help will be provided.

You’ll succeed in the pursuit of your destiny. Pretending you’re not enough only hampers the succeeding. You can answer the call of your future in this lifetime or another. It’s your choice; your destiny’s patient. You will, however, ultimately succeed.

Take the pressure off yourself. Lighten up! Enjoy! Move at your own pace, not the pacing of others. Growth is not a race. In the meantime, process the lies you tell yourself and heal and release the shame that haunts you still.

You’re enough! You have the means to achieve whatever you desire in life as long as it’s your desire and not the desire of others, and indeed not the aspirations the consensus says you need to be happy. Your dreams and visions are limited only by you. You have all you need to awaken your magnificence. And that’s the only accomplishment that matters, isn’t it?

Yes, you can even build a magnificent palace

with only a tiny feather,

if you really believe you need that feather.

3

Where the Animals Went to Die

Suggested Areas of Attention

*Accept the power and beauty of your loving.

*Allow yourself the time and space to grieve what needs grieving.

*Own and release your need to control to keep love safe.

*Forgive, and release your delusions of insignificance.

*Address your fear of letting go.

*Allow your freedom to strengthen you.

Oh, the magnificence of the human heart!

Oh, the magnificence of your heart!

Yes, you read correctly, Your heart.

The Divine of You always provides opportunities for the unique majesty of your love to shine through. Some opportunities bring pain and hurt; others light and joy. But the Divine of You never brings more than you’re capable of handling. Your love is strong enough to hold the hurts and pains, and tender enough to nurture the sadness and loss. You’re stronger than you yet realize. Be strong enough to be the love you’re capable of being. Be tender enough to be the love you’re destined to become.

Love grows stronger when you’re willing to let it go; it weakens when you’re not. Your need for control is born of the desire to keep love safe; the greater the control, the greater the fear of its loss. Attend to this need for control. Understand why you’re engaging in it and forgive yourself for such behavior.

Now dive deep within yourself and feel the dread, the hurt, the loneliness, the despair, the anger, the fear, and the pain of love’s loss you hide there. Feel your feelings deeply. Beyond your pain and dread, beyond your loneliness and hurt, beyond your anger, despair, and fear, your love resides imprisoned. Free it. When you do, it will free