Heart and Mind
Like many of you out there I am on my spiritual path often trying to make sense of what is going on in the world and in me. I’ve explored many avenues and many teachings, and have come to the conclusion that the greatest teacher is within and in life‘s ups and downs. We read about living in a constant state of bliss, peace, love etc and yes this is possible and we can experience this, however we cannot disown the reality of the daily life we are each responsible for creating. All vibration is a vibration of truth, be it sound, light, food, thought, emotion, action, chemical energy, electric energy, electromagnetic energy, nuclear energy. Some of it may harm us; some of it is good for us. All has its place in the universe and the planet.
At the moment the West is on a mission to save the planet, but is it honouring the fact that the earth is teaching US? Is it honouring the fact that the earth has its own cycles? Do we actually accept, embrace and honour we are the same biological intelligence and in saving the earth we are putting our desire to save ourselves into an external source? If our heart tells us to save something do we look deep inside and ask ourselves why? Everyone wants to change the world as though it is an external problem, yet what we have to do is change ourselves and how we relate to our planet. In some areas of environmental understanding people are doing that, but in other areas we are in the flow of marketing campaigns who wish to make us feel guilty or show that they are compassionate towards a cause that is actually a natural part of the earth’s evolution and partly our fault.
When we accept we are each responsible for the life we have created, then we can focus on what we need to do in ourselves to re create a better inner and outer world for ourselves. It isn’t about opting out, flying off into meditative states, or verbalising loving unconditionally…unless…when we go into meditation we bring back the wisdom we need, we deal with our darkness and we don’t expect people to be the same as us. The planet is actually fine…the problem is the human race. It is so diverse that one solution does not suit all.
The only connection that makes us one is in the state of love…this is the eternal bliss state we seek and it cannot be accessed by mind because it is energy with no form. The mind needs form, it cannot cope with formlessness. Therefore the heart is actually the controller but we add our limited thought patterns into the energy of love to try to make sense of it. This then translates through our words and actions and what we identify with as love.
We are in times of great change globally and spiritually. We are being challenged in our lives, our ways of working and living, our ways of interrelating with one another. To understand unconditional love, we have to take our conditions out of it. To ask someone to love you unconditionally has a condition; can you love them without projecting your own desires and needs onto them? Can you love them and forgive them whatever they have done to you or others? Can you let go of a relationship with love if the person says they don’t feel the same about you? Can you accept the criminal has a place in this world of love? Do you judge the behaviour of another? Have you forgiven your friend that hurt you over something? Can you honestly love your neighbour?
Walking the path of the Heart takes more than a blissful state and giving out love to those who love you. It means loving those who don’t love you, forgiving those who hurt you, accepting people for who they are. You may not want them in your life, but you may also need to acknowledge they have a journey and a purpose too.
The greatest light workers go into the darkness. The abused, the homeless, the rejected do not have access to the spiritual self growth courses and meditative states that those of us in comfort zones have. They find their truth through their darkness.
Jesus was not a soul without dark moments, neither were the other great Masters. Our lives on this earth are here to teach us how to balance the light and the dark, the love and the fear, the heart and the mind.
We can go into bliss and we can live in love, we have to work at it and we have to understand that whilst it is our natural state, here on earth we still have the lessons we came to learn and the teachings and gifts we came to give each other. Real life is a great teacher…not an illusion.
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