Tuesday, 16 June 2009 01:47
Here is a comment someone sent me in an email in response to my previous post about the recipe for Truth, where I suggest that an opening or resonance in the heart is the most important ingredient in knowing something is true, just as chocolate chips are the most important ingredient in chocolate chip cookies:
I have been suffering with a lack of chocolate chips in the areas of my life work, finances, and moving to a new area. Although I felt into this article I still could not reach the chocolate chips to move myself forward. I just felt the dough. I feel off purpose or stagnant, like my pot is boiling dry and I'm not sure how to expand deeper into me.
Here is my response:
One of the most challenging aspects of listening to the Heart is to trust it even when it is contracted and dry. That is the right way for a small or incomplete perspective to feel. When life seems off purpose and like there is no Heart resonance with what is happening, the invitation is to really be with that experience of contracted dryness just as it is. Sometimes it is just not time for the truer direction to appear, as the bigger mystery often has its own sense of timing that does not always fit with our agendas. Sometimes there is something more to be seen about our own resistance and conditioning, and usually we are only willing to really look at our conditioning when it is no longer working for us. So the dryness and difficulty can get us to pay attention finally to something that needs to be seen.
When the Heart is contracted it is still working perfectly to show you the nature of your experience. The real art of inquiring is to give space and curiosity to the tightness itself, instead of trying to push through to a bigger truth. The small truths of our conditioned reactions are showing up to be seen and even accepted and loved. Once they are truly seen for what they are, they can naturally fall into place within a bigger perspective. They do not even need to be gotten rid of, just seen for how true they really are. There is room in our awareness and in our Heart for all of life's experiences including very small and limited perspectives.
While it is challenging to inquire in this way into the truth of our limited or "stuck" places, it can also be profoundly liberating. When we discover that even an experience of dryness and stagnation is something to be valued and explored, it can free us from the spiritual compulsion to always fix or change our experience. There are insights and treasures to be found in every aspect of our experience. We can explore our experience not to get a better experience, but to fully taste and digest these treasures in all of their infinite forms.
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