When we have a powerful awakening experience it creates ripples, like a rock thrown into a pond. I’ve experienced this ripple effect since going into the heart so deeply last Sunday, with the feisty old pain body throwing at me whatever it could come up with to get me to fall unconscious and suffer. I notice that the darker emotions that emerged this week have not had the power to swallow me up, except for moments so I could learn. It seems that the intuition I had last Sunday holds true: that going deep into the heart with Open Attention can create such permanent change.
Yesterday evening this became most obvious. I entered a very light expansive state, an elation and peace in which I sensed the fruit of what I had experienced last Sunday. The experiment seems to be working: Let the heart-sun shine strongly enough on the puddles of negative emotions and thoughts and they will dry up.
That makes me think of devotion, the systematic cultivation of unconditional love and the deep gratitude for any moment of life. And especially I am grateful to you for being interested enough in my ramblings so I can hear myself explain these things to you and to me, for I am learning this as we go along.
Again I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. It will make this experience even fuller for all of us. We are all waking up together.
