Findhorn Flower Essences Summer 2014


somehow there is greater constancy, dedication and love for and of my practice. I feel more motivated and energetic generally.


On the other hand, this essence symbolises fieriness. The element of fire is passionate and transformative. It can also easily get out of control. I would use this essence therefore for fiery symptoms: impulsiveness, over-arousal, fanaticism, restlessness and agitation.


Consider using this essence also for wrong motivation, such as a desire to do something that is wrong or unwise, or being tempted or diverted from our goal, spiritual practice or our chosen path. Buddha saw that disturbing emotions and attitudes such as longing desire or attachment, hostility or anger etc. interfere with our practice. (See Comment 2)


Research into traditional and herbal uses indicate the medicinal uses of this plant is sweet, cooling, astringent, diuretic, sedative and expectorant.


Nicholas Culpeper the English botanist, herbalist and physician prescribed the distilled water of flowers to cool inflammations, and to “settle the brain of frantic persons by cooling the hot distemperature of the head”.


In Ayurveda, a decoction of flowers is used for heart palpitations, giddiness, vomiting biliousness, and worm infestation (Home Remedies Vol 4, T.V. Sairam)


According to Sri Aurobindo/The mother, the message of this flower is wealth: emotional wealth, generous wealth, wealth in the mind of light, wealth in the most material vital, wealth under the psychic influence.


It is the only flower which fruits and flowers at the same time.


To summarise, Lotus Lily at the supreme level assists the spiritual self to conduct him/herself without attachment (material or emotional desires). This quality of detachment enables one to remain unaffected by worldly pleasures and gain, and achieve spiritual perfection – to let go the materialistic aspirations in life and rise to a selfless soul.


Om mani padme hum – hail the jewel in the lotus


Love and Light Marion


* Comment 1 In Sanskrit, bodhi means “awakened” and citta means “mind”. Bodhicitta, means – “awakened heart-mind” and is the compassionate aspiration to realise enlightenment for all beings, not just oneself. The path to awakening opens when it becomes unselfish and compassionate. The realisation of bodhicitta means completely integrating this ideal in our mind and actions. A bodhisattva is a being (sattva) with the bodhicitta motivation (in


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