The Real Meditative Practice Is To Open

In Asian Languages, The Word For Mind And The Word For Heart Are The Same Word.

My Father Was A World-class Scientist And My Mother Was A Prolific Painter. I Could See That My Parents Had Completely Different Ways Of Knowing And Understanding The World, And Relating To It. My Father Approached Things Through Scientific Inquiry And Exploration, While My Mother Experienced Things Through Her Emotions And Senses.

The Awareness Is Not Part Of The Darkness Or The Pain; It Holds The Pain, And Knows It, So It Has To Be More Fundamental, And Closer To What Is Healthy And Strong And Golden Within You.

Look At Other People And Ask Yourself If You Are Really Seeing Them Or Just Your Thoughts About Them.... Without Knowing It, We Are Coloring Everything, Putting Our Spin On It All.

In Letting Go Of Wanting Something Special To Occur, Maybe We Can Realize That Something Special Is Already Occurring.