ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No5 'ALCHEMY' | Page 47

S: Yes, I hear you. This reminds me of the quote from this wonderful
movie Bab’ Aziz. In the beginning we see an Old Dervish Bab’ Aziz and
his Grand-daughter Ishtar on their way to the Gathering and Ishtar
keep asking: ‘where is the gathering…’?
Grandfather says: I don't
know.
Ishtar: And who is going to
come?
Grandfather: I don't know.
But do you know the way?
Grandfather: I don't know.
She asks: how are we going
to do it?
He said: By keeping the faith
and following step by step
and we will arrive at the
gathering.
Kevin with his daughter © Private collection

K: So that knowing, that level of faith is much bigger because he is not
attached, he doesn’t really care if he gets there. That’s a good example
of surrendering it goes hand in hand with faith.
S: Yes, they go hand in hand… What can support us on this way of
surrendering, on the way of Opening to the Unknown? I know when
you are singing it is there but what about in a daily life in the
physicality of life. What could be the tools we could apply?
K: I think singing is good, dancing is good, following your bliss, following your
heart and above all being honest.
Taking time to communicate with yourself, with your body. Being present. I
think it's really easy to associate being present with meditation, yet for me
being present is very physical. It is like I am feeling my hand and my feet,
feeling my body, getting in touch with that intelligence that runs through our
body, that we call life.
In our mind we separate from it, but actually that consciousness is beating in
our heart, it's allowing us to think, yet it’s beyond thoughts and memory. It
can inspire thoughts if we connect to it and that connection comes through
feeling, through being present.

In that sense it doesn't really matter what you are doing.
When you have that connection to your physicality, you are not drifting off into
imagine thoughts of future or past.
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