03/11/2023
Being in touch with your heart = being in touch with your intelligence
Milarepa puts his head in the mouth of the demon, I put my hand on my heart. Feeling vulnerability and breathing with it. Who you are is bigger than your feelings of being deficient . Etc . Offer kindness. Presence = courage.
Don’t push anyone out of your heart including yourself.
Resisting the demons feeds them.
What’s the experience of an undefended heart, right now? What does it mean to be courageous in this moment?
Poem: "Adrift" by Mark Nepo
Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.
This is how the heart makes a duet of
wonder and grief. The light spraying
through the lace of the fern is as delicate
as the fibers of memory forming their web
around the knot in my throat. The breeze
makes the birds move from branch to branch
as this ache makes me look for those I’ve lost
in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh
of the next stranger. In the very center, under
it all, what we have that no one can take
away and all that we’ve lost face each other.
It is there that I’m adrift, feeling punctured
by a holiness that exists inside everything.
I am so sad and everything is beautiful