The Heart and Reality

The Heart
Q - Who am I?
You are the heart, the ever unfolding being that exists as a creative dynamic through time. You are a force that takes no effort. As the world (reality) is unfolding without your effort, so you, your identity is unfolding as part of that reality.
I want to share two metaphors that represent visions of reality. The first is the one that I believe is commonly held amongst people.
You are a being adrift in an ocean of reality, surrounded by past, future, here, there, good, bad, them, you, now, then. You are navigating your way around this ocean of reality, succumbing to a myriad of forces upon you.
Now a second metaphor
Reality is a wave, moving through the ocean of eternity. All things exist at the front of the wave, which is the now, the present moment. This moment is ever changing and shifting, evolving. It is affected by what went before, but there is no ‘what went before’. Even our remembrances of it only exist in the now, at the front of the wave. This wave is intelligent, it can even predict where it will be in the future, but these predictions are also creations of the now, at the front of the wave.
Does yesterday exist? Does two seconds ago exist? All that exists is now. The great unfolding wave of reality. You are part of that unfolding wave.
Q – If I am part of this unfolding wave of reality, why do I feel adrift, alone? Why do I feel that life is effort and strain.
Let me explain through another metaphor. You are a like a man in his house, surrounded by his things. This is his world. This is him. This box of memories, of familiarity, he believes is who he is. But he is not, he is the man in the house. If this man goes outside suddenly he is amongst reality. You feel this really each time you step out of your door. Try it now.
Q – But I like my house, I like those familiar things, they make me feel safe, secure, even content.
Do you believe that the truth is a frightening, dangerous, terrible thing to be feared, or do you believe that the great unfolding is the source of love, happiness, freedom, bliss? Your house takes effort to maintain, it is you own creation, an armour against reality and it takes the effort as it is not flexible like the wave. Do you believe that the truth the source of all being can not sustain you? If not, then what can, for even this house of familiarity is created with the source.
Q - You are talking of me as a house, and you advise me to step out of the house, but what does that really mean? How can I step out of myself, when I am myself?
The answer is here my friend, and it is simple. It is called the heart. The heart is the man in the house. The heart is the action that takes no effort.
Q - But how can I recognise the heart?
I will give you two ways to clearly recognise the heart as I can and hopefully one will lead you there. One way is to point to the middle of the chest at the base of the rib cage and say “I”, “Me” or “Mine”. You will recognise that source of identity. It is who you really are. Lionhearted, passionate, charismatic, loving – we are all these things when we recognise ourselves in the heart. Also when you are feeling sexual arousal, you will seem to become a being not of the head but of the middle of the chest at the base of the rib cage. You may begin grunting and groaning, expressing the animal within. This is no simple wild beast, this is the heart. It is felt during sex because it is at the root of our being to procreate since the first organisms. But it can be felt always not just during sexual arousal. It is who you really are. It is the heart arousing, waking up. It is the man in the house recognising himself.
We have tamed our hearts, boxed them up within the mind, within a fabrication of thought. It is time to free you heart from the domination of the mind. The mind is a hall of mirrors, it can not ride the wave. But the heart, oh yes, the heart can be at the front of the wave and ride reality.
Within and around the heart muscle are a mass of nerves. People who have had heart transplants have found they have taken on personality traits, even memories from the previous heart’s user. The heart is the original source of identity, the original being. The brain came as a tool to process data from eyes, ear, nose, mouth, and skin, but in most people it has usurped the sense of identity. The heart thumps away with no effort from you.
Unfold with the heart my friend. Be the heart.
Q – but what of the head, is it not valuable?
Absolutely, the head is a fantastic tool. Wow the imagination! The delicacy of sound and vision, the nuance of flavour – but it is not the heart, the centre – that is where you, the ‘I’ that can unfold with reality dwells. Reside there and let the head be the servant.
You and the heart are the same thing. The heart is being, loving. The heart is the action that takes no effort. You can ride the wave of reality by recognising and realising yourself fully as heart.