Today's Column

What If The Heart...

What if the heart is the real center, and the mind – ok, the brain – is just a secondary offshoot that evolution has blown up out of all proportion? I had a sort of vision as I was waking up this morning of the two hemispheres of the brain as Horus’ wings, and then I saw them as spirals, one going out, one going in, and I thought, “the left one eats inspiration, and shits words. The right eats words, and shits inspiration.” And, since the heart forms in the embryo before the brain, that big chunk of nerves is really the heart’s servant, not the other way around.

I just learned last night that Adi Dam – once known as Bubba Free John – died in November 2008, right around Thanksgiving. He was one of my early heroes in the world of spirituality, but he got so strange, and so heavy. He always admonished people that awakening was “always already here!” but then he insisted on all kinds of austerities and devotions to his gurudom, to “achieve” what he said was already the case. Hmmm.

What if we just settle down and look around? My friends, this is it. It’s the most difficult thing in the world to accept, and it’s the soul of simplicity. There is no problem. The way things are naturally is perfect. There are no criteria to dispute this, because there is no one to have criteria. There is no self, just this clear, empty awareness. Of course, you could say, “What if it’s not empty. I feel really irritable this morning!” So where does that irritability happen? In the midst of this clear, empty awareness.

There’s a wonderful quote from Adyashanti on Joe Winslow’s blog (http://only--this.blogspot.com/). “You are looking for God with His eyes.” Think about that. All this thrashing and struggle we go through is just one of the things that Oneness does, not some grand conspiracy, or even a great puzzle: it’s just one of the things that Oneness does. Leave it to the limitless to invent the amazing puzzle of limitation!