The Taste of Heart, the Taste of Mind
El Sabor del Corazón, el Sabor de la Mente
An invitation to notice the difference between looking through the mind and resting in the heart, and to choose beauty and trust.
The Taste of Heart, the Taste of Mind
Trust
Contemplate any sense of this trust.
Fear and distrust go together.
Attraction and distrust go together.
You trust that nothing is wrong.
Nothing is missing.
There are struggles, there are pains.
What do you need to give up in order to trust?
Looking through the mind
If we look into the mind,
we will see problems,
challenges,
fears.
If we look from the heart,
there is radiance,
aliveness,
beauty,
the creation and the destruction of everything.
If you look through the mind, with the filters of thought,
you will experience time, past and future, as real,
as absolute, as fundamental.
If you look through the heart, from the heart,
bypassing thought, ignoring thought,
there is only this.
Only timeless presence.
Sensations,
breath,
skin,
sound,
the clarity of everything appearing.
Exploring the contrast
Don't fight the mind.
Don't struggle with the mind.
Explore the contrast.
You are the one choosing thought.
So explore the contrast.
Going into thought, into the mind,
and then bypassing it.
From the mind there is the person with a past,
born in time, dying in time.
Desires, fears, struggles, contractions.
From the heart,
there is mystery,
aliveness,
beauty,
vulnerability,
trust.
Don't change anything.
Don't try to control.
Just notice.
Explore what is here.
Taste it.
What is the taste of heart?
What is the taste of mind?
Finding beauty
Find one thing in your experience,
one thing to touch,
one perception, one sensation.
The tingling in the hands, or the sound of a bird.
Anything, anything that appears to have a little bit of beauty.
Anything you can call beautiful.
Enter that, savor that.
The experience and the sense of beauty.
And if you find nothing beautiful in this moment, in your experience,
consider that you are seeing only through the mind.
Be willing to put it down.
Choosing the heart
Choose the heart.
Choose the vulnerability.
Choose the beauty.
Choose the love.
Choose to trust.
That is the invitation.
If the mind is busy, tempting,
you cannot fight it.
Choose beauty.
Sensations in your hands,
the miracle of hands,
the miracle of sensation,
the miracle of breath,
the mystery of this.
That is beauty.
It is not far away.
It is always here.
Wherever you go, there is beauty.
Wherever you go, there is love.
Trust that.
Choose that.
Whenever there is dissatisfaction, struggle,
beyond the doubt, there is this.