I want to talk more about the obstacles on the journey.
This one's really close to my heart.
You know,
The West were so developed intellectually and our hearts not so much and we don't even realize this I think.
We don't realize what we're doing.
You know,
One of the things about going to another culture,
You see in stark relief then your own culture as it's juxtaposed against this whole new culture.
So you see the strengths and weaknesses of both.
But you know,
In the West it's our hearts that are having trouble being heard.
You know,
My teacher Amma,
The Indian saint of avatar who I've been studying with for 17 years says,
You know,
Really she says this very sweetly,
But she says that Westerners,
You know,
As they age,
They get dry and their lives feel meaningless because of our emphasis on the head and the lack of attention to the heart.
Without the heart,
Life loses us.
With a lot of meaning,
We get caught in the labyrinth of our heads and we lose connection with all of life,
With each other.
So I really want to talk about the heart and about the journey.
I've seen many,
Many spiritual people,
Really good-hearted spiritual people who do not realize that the point of the practices is to free the heart.
It's to free the heart.
That's the secret wish inside all of us,
That you know,
To free our heart and blossom and blossom into the person we were born to be.
Because what happens as the heart is allowed more room and space,
It taps into a huge,
Huge infinite wisdom.
And a huge,
Huge logic.
I call it the logic of the heart.
It's way bigger than the ego's logic or the intellect's logic.
And it's way more fun.
I hope you can get the feeling of it just through my words.
I mean,
Imagine your heart being free and imagine your intellect following your heart rather than what we do in the West,
Which is our intellect's running the show and we turn to the heart and we say,
Okay,
You know,
Come in,
Sit down and shut up,
You know,
Just toe the line.
And so this makes us sad,
Actually,
Underneath.
Many of us are heartbroken at this.
And the cure,
I mean,
Part of the reason for spiritual practices is to hold us,
To give us a secure container while we feel into this heartbreak and we take it to,
You know,
God.
I mean,
Take our broken hearts to all that is.
What happens if you do that,
You know,
Is you get healed.
So if you cry in feeling the intense sorrow of how far you feel from,
You know,
All that is,
How abandoned and alone you feel,
But you feel you cry in true sorrow.
I'm not talking about self pity or,
You know,
The tears of resentment or anger.
I'm talking about that very deep sorrow and you only be able to feel it for about 10 minutes max.
And then your psyche will,
Will do kind of a pull the plug on it.
And it's for your safety,
You know,
So that you can just integrate that,
Stabilize,
Stabilize.
But when you feel the pain,
The sorrow being disconnected,
You connect up and you will connect up to your heart.
You connect up to all that is and all humanity and all of life.
And there's even an easier way,
Which is to cry in yearning for God.
You know,
Tears for God,
Just really wanting to embody your soul energy,
Really wanting to help out here.
Those tears will bring you into truth the fastest and the easiest because basically those tears will alter your chemistry and alter your thoughts and bring your divine being into your body.
Yeah,
That's the easy way.
Next is the tears of sorrow,
Feeling the tears of sorrow.
Another easy way is to get a hug from mama.
You can tap into a soul that way,
Integrate the soul in that way.
Anyway,
I feel in the journey,
You know,
With the emphasis on our intellect that even in the way,
You know,
Religious training is taught,
There's this emphasis on the head when the point of it,
East and west,
In religions is the heart.
To be able to love,
To learn how to love yourself and others,
Free the heart.
So may your hearts free this life as easily and as gently as possible.
So it is.
