 All Hearts are Open
Love Everyone and Everything Truly there is no such thing as a heart that is closed. All hearts are open. This is the nature of “heart.” Although sometimes it may be difficult to feel the open heart of someone or yourself, you can always find a perspective of openness. Everyone that you meet, that you see, that you communicate with, stands on the same ground as you do. They stand under the sky as you do, they love and feel loved as you do. When the sense of separateness falls away, there is only One Life and the expression of the open heart. You are all vulnerable, you are all invulnerable, too. This is the experience of being human and knowing that finding the perspective of the open heart can be demanding. The feeling of open heartedness is obscured by lots of issues and concerns, ideas and concepts. Yet there is a knowing, at the core of your being, of an unconditional acceptance which loves everyone and everything. With every exchange with another, find the perspective of the open heart and cultivate unconditional acceptance and loving kindness. This perspective is ultimately the only way that you can develop a deeper understanding of your unlimited capacity to love. At first it might seem hard to feel acceptance and loving kindness towards people who have hurt you, or those who have acted seemingly badly, or those who just don't have the same kind of awareness or capacity to understand awareness as you do. But, of course, those are the people you practice with. Those are the people you forgive and experience with the greatest sense of equanimity and the least judgment you can find. Once you find your open heart perspective, know that you don’t need to build walls around your open heart to protect it. Your always open heart becomes stronger and more resilient the more you love. If you build walls, and you fortify them with righteousness, pride, judgment, and fear, you will find there is always a crack—a place where the openness resides. The crack, the opening, is always quite simple to find, even if it does not seem easy. No matter whether you feel afraid or courageous, open or closed, you will always come back into the awareness of your open heart. It is your true state of being and your most natural place to abide. The open heart is a perspective which recognizes the value of relationship—being and communicating with another. Nothing about an exchange with another is predictable. Nothing is reliable either. This is why you need to simply be in love with everyone and everything. Acknowledge love everywhere and you will be compelled to be present, in the moment, and aware. Loving everyone and everything is not passive. If you are lazy, expecting everyone to love you in some way in order to justify loving them, you have missed the open heart perspective. You have to become free of ideas, expectations, previous experiences, and fantasies of future experiences to discover and maintain your open heart perspective. This perspective thrives when you arrive at it spontaneously. Although you cannot practice spontaneity, you can practice the expression and the qualities of the open heart perspective through simple awareness practices. Let go and allow for the openness of all hearts. Assume nothing other than that all hearts are open. Take nothing personally. Love everyone and everything.
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