In this weeks Deep Hearts Core podcast you are invited to discover a lost art. This is the lost art of loving. Most people hunger for Love. Most people think that love is simply an emotion that you feel for some people and not others.

On this spiritual journey to the Deep Hearts Core you discover that Love is not just an emotion. You are invited into the vast realization that Love is not only a state of being it is who you are at your Deep Hearts Core.

This is the only real spiritual direction worth going in. It is a living and lovely paradox. The more you learn this art of Loving which is more an unlearning. The more you discover that you are not the more Love is. This is the task of becoming a real artist – on who is a servant to Love. Then you live the art of love as your life’s expression.

An Anam cara offers you true spiritual guidance and true spiritual direction. It is the guidance in trusting the hearts little intelligence at your deep hearts core. They hold the knowing of this inner telling sense until you love yourself enough to allow yourself to receive the beauty you are. They simply assist in authorizing the real story of you as an individual glory of Love you already are.

To listen to the full podcast The Art of Loving simply click on the button below.

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Have started a podcast called the Deep Hearts Core. This will be a weekly podcast including heart stories, heart song and mystical poetry

The first podcast is called Stairway to Heaven and looks at the word you need to ensure that you get what you came here in this world to be.

In the second podcast you are told the wondertale about the Tuatha de Danaan – the beautiful people who were driven under ground.  This is a metaphor for many of us who live our lives judging our success or failure.

Have a listen.  You will need broadband to download these files.  Simply click on the podcast button below to immediately here this invitation to buying a stairway that takes you to that place of unimagined beauty and creativity – your deep hearts core.

 

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There is only one journey-

Going into yourself.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

If one were a detached observer of our world you might conclude that there is only one journey – the journey to the shopping mall.  This writer thinks that this, together with sport, have become the new temples of meaning.  We have replaced Descartes, “I think, therefore I am,” with “I am, therefore I shop.” Or perhaps, “I am, therefore I spectate.”

Many stories of old, which are referred to as wonder tales within many cultures, contain stories about mirrors.  Mirrors are a device used to signify a threshold place. It is said that the mirror does not lie.  It is simply a reflector of what is.

What is within you is reflected out into the world.  The way each of us sees the world is a reflection of our inner state. The journey within yourself is an endless journey. One simply goes deeper and deeper. It is a journey into a void. Only this void is not empty. It is filled with creative potential waiting to be given birth.

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Any morning

Just lying on the couch being happy

Only humming a little

The quiet sound in the head

Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment

It has so much to do in the world

People who might judge are mostly asleep

They can’t monitor you all the time

And sometimes they forget

When dawn flows over the hedge

You can get up and act busy

Little corners like this

Pieces of heaven left lying around

Can be picked up and saved

People won’t even see that you have them

They are so light and easy to hide

Later in the day you can act like others

You can sake your head

And you can frown.

 

William Stafford

This poem is a blessing.  It contains some very wonderful lines.  One of my favourites is “when dawn flows over the hedge.”  It reminds me of how dawn flows over Cuilcuih Mountain here in Dowra.  It reminds me how light flows out of darkness.

 

Remember any morning lying on the couch you can be happy. Take time to come to slowly and deliberately. Make it a practice to enter the day slowly and surely.   Happy is something to be and not something to do. You are born in the image of the Divine.  You are Divine.  You are not to be added to or taken away from.  It’s all right now.  

 

We find this idea hard to accept.  

 

This is because we think about our life most of the time.  We avoid feeling it as a moment-to-moment experience.  This feeling of deep connectedness with our lives is here any morning and any time.  Do you think that the Divine takes a lunch break or gets tired of pouring love into our being?  Does the dawn stop flowing over the hedge?  

 

Those little pieces of heaven are lying around waiting to be noticed.  You have to know how to look.  When you can see them you can pick them up if you wish.  You do not have to even do that.  There is no requirement that you save or own them.  The real delight is in sharing these pieces of heaven.  

 

To be able to see the beauty of heaven you need to be present.  It is not waiting in the future.  It cannot be accessed via the past.  It is in front of your eyes and flows through an allowing heart.  You have to be present at this banquet of “love is flowing eternally.”  You have to nourish your soul by allowing wonder and awe to touch you.

 

Do not save these pieces of heaven.  Let them go.  Clear yourself out forever-new delight.   Give them away to others.  Help them lie on the couch and be happy.  Become a happy couch potato.  Remind them too that the dawn always flows over the hedge.  Remind them that to be happy is to be present.  Let them learn to be present to this banquet of life.

 

Let trouble be busy elsewhere for a while.  

 

We give our attention to gladly to the trouble of others.  We close our hearts to their sorrow and seek further security in legislation and insurance.  We build higher and higher walls in order to keep the world out.  I doing this we lock ourselves into a tight little fearful experience that we then call life.

 

Hum a little.  

 

Sing your own song.  Songs are always coming into my head.  Mostly they are songs from the sixties.  They include “Its all to beautiful.”  They include “Maybe I’m Amazed”.  The poet suggests that you do only a little.  He knows how difficult it is to stay awake to your wonder.

 

You do not want to incur the wrath of your Trickster.  This is the guardian of your mind that watches what you think.  It  insures that your thinking is contained within the boundaries of the norm.  It insures that you do not step to far out of line.  Otherwise you might go off your head.

 

Learn to know “the quiet sound in the head.”  This is your head.  This is my head.  It runs off at tangents every which way.  We then wonder why we never get to experience peace of mind.  We rarely, if ever, take time to listen to this internal chatter we call thinking.  It runs away with us.  

 

We are off thinking about last nights pub quiz.  We are thinking about next years holiday or tonight’s dinner.  This is needed but to often we are not present to tonights dinner when the time comes to prepare and eat it.  We are running three steps in front and we never catch up with the fact that we are alive now.

 

You can always return to frowning later in the day.  

 

This is our usual way of relating to the world.  Why not step out of it in the early morning light of a new day. Know that the perfection of the day is an internal experience that you can choose to have.  This is to choose to allow it to be without resistance.  

 

Stop judging it better or worse or not acceptable.  Allow it to be before crushing it with negativity.  It is newly born for our appreciation.  We have been gifted this day without any requirement other than we enjoy it.  Even this is not required of us.

 

As Kabir said in another wonderful poem:

 

“If it rains

Let it rain.”

 

Here in Corrogue this is the best approach to adopt otherwise on many days I might “return to frowning”.

 

Know that you are always enough.  This will give you a perfect day.

 

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I have discovered a new poem via the Internet.

 

It is by a poet whose name I am unfamiliar with.  It has a wonderful title.  This is “Any Morning.”  It suggests that any morning is the time to be happy.  It is the time to know that you are forever enough.

 

Sure there are times when we forget this but forgetting is our normal state of mind.  We have forgotten the simplest of blessings.  We have forgotten the simplicity of thankfulness.  Every morning becomes a prison of things to do, places to go, people to see and things to achieve.  We measure your worth by what is done rather than by the beauty of who you are.

 

This poem serves to remind me of this precious ever-present moment.  This is the moment of non-doing.  It does not mean you do nothing.  It means that your actions are moved from love and not simply from a place of activity.  

 

Our activity has become a mask for the fact that many of us are “hollow men.”  We work and “do activity” so that we do not have to go home.  This for some is their physical home and for others it is their spiritual home.  

Let me share with you this delightful poem.

 

Any morning

Just lying on the couch being happy

Only humming a little

The quiet sound in the head

Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment

It has so much to do in the world

People who might judge are mostly asleep

They can’t monitor you all the time

And sometimes they forget

When dawn flows over the hedge

You can get up and act busy

Little corners like this

Pieces of heaven left lying around

Can be picked up and saved

People won’t even see that you have them

They are so light and easy to hide

Later in the day you can act like others

You can sake your head

And you can frown.

 

William Stafford

 

This poem is a blessing.  It contains some very wonderful lines.  One of my favourites is “when dawn flows over the hedge.”  It reminds me of how dawn flows over Cuilcuigh Mountain here in Dowra.  It reminds me how light flows out of darkness.

 

Remember any morning lying on the couch you can be happy. Take time to come to slowly and deliberately. Make it a practice to enter the day slowly and surely.   Happy is something to be and not something to do. You are born in the image of the Divine.  You are Divine.  You are not to be added to or taken away from.  It’s all right now.  

 

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