09/21/10: How Can I Find My True Heart Center?
Category: Artistic Expression
Posted by: ysteban
How can I find my True Heart Center?
Anonymous wrote: "The goal for me is to balance the emotional heart and mind in order to find the true heart center."
This is a great intention as a goal -- however one must be able to look very near and deep to understand the truth: The 'you' can't DO this. No matter what 'you' try to do, it won't work. It's not a matter of having a technique to accomplish 'what you want', because when there is a technique in play then the 'you' is busy doing - the 'you' is activated and running full tilt, 'you' are and YOU is not. The two aspects of self don't exist at same time, your energy can only be focused in one aspect of self. As long as there is an intention (goal, technique, want, desire, etc.), then 'you' is the manifest aspect of self. To get to that 'true heart center', one must only stand still, to let go of control of running things, to relax using one's energy as being 'the you'. When you do simply that, then it happens you are in your heart center. People can spend a lifetime looking outside trying to find the heart center, when it's there all the time ready for you to recognize it. To say it another way, I have this poem I wrote:
Open up your heart
the symphony is playing
listen to the notes.
Sinking into the music
self forgotten - happiness.
~ Betsy ~
May 12, 2024
Anonymous wrote: "The goal for me is to balance the emotional heart and mind in order to find the true heart center."
This is a great intention as a goal -- however one must be able to look very near and deep to understand the truth: The 'you' can't DO this. No matter what 'you' try to do, it won't work. It's not a matter of having a technique to accomplish 'what you want', because when there is a technique in play then the 'you' is busy doing - the 'you' is activated and running full tilt, 'you' are and YOU is not. The two aspects of self don't exist at same time, your energy can only be focused in one aspect of self. As long as there is an intention (goal, technique, want, desire, etc.), then 'you' is the manifest aspect of self. To get to that 'true heart center', one must only stand still, to let go of control of running things, to relax using one's energy as being 'the you'. When you do simply that, then it happens you are in your heart center. People can spend a lifetime looking outside trying to find the heart center, when it's there all the time ready for you to recognize it. To say it another way, I have this poem I wrote:
Open up your heart
the symphony is playing
listen to the notes.
Sinking into the music
self forgotten - happiness.
~ Betsy ~
May 12, 2024
09/12/10: Tanka - Communication
Category: Artistic Expression
Posted by: ysteban
Tanka: Communication
Wholeness of Being
Heart Connected to the Mind
Seeing and Asking
Inspired answer made into words
spirit transported to world
Words received through mind
vibration felt - thinking starts
ego is alive.
Unknown source is frightening
Reaction as 'me' feels safe.
If there is no question
words of spirit stay hidden
barrier of mind.
Dropping one's knowing -questing
found dusty words change being.
Aha!
Betsy
September 12, 2024
Wholeness of Being
Heart Connected to the Mind
Seeing and Asking
Inspired answer made into words
spirit transported to world
Words received through mind
vibration felt - thinking starts
ego is alive.
Unknown source is frightening
Reaction as 'me' feels safe.
If there is no question
words of spirit stay hidden
barrier of mind.
Dropping one's knowing -questing
found dusty words change being.
Aha!
Betsy
September 12, 2024