From Nirmala's book,
From The Heart
(free download)
endlesssatsang.com
"Allow what you are seeing to be seen by your Heart instead of your head. What is it like to sense, listen, and look from your Heart? Pick an object and sense it with your Heart instead of your head. How is that?
The key is to allow awareness to flow from the Heart. Especially at first, it is not important to sense the Heart itself. It’s simpler at first if you just sense an ordinary object, like a piece of furniture, from your Heart. The important thing is where your awareness seems to be located. Because of the strongly imprinted tendency to look from the head and through your thoughts, you may find at first that you are looking into your Heart, or you may be thinking about what it would be like to look from the Heart. If you are just imagining what that would be like, your awareness would still be shaped by thoughts—in this case, a thought about this new way of looking."
"Here are some clues that awareness is flowing at least partly from the Heart: The awareness will be wider and more open. The boundaries between the awareness and the objects in awareness will seem less substantial. There will be more of a sense of oneness and connection with whatever you are sensing."
Meant to be a backpack trip, and I was looking forward to climbing out of a tent,,! Eastern Washington was having unusual rainfall, it was a torrential downpour, this is where we ended up staying, a little place along the Tietan River. This river and I became fast friends. The river spoke to my heart!
On the way back, traveling through Chinook Pass was this deep snow. Amazing. And beautiful.
