What Sound Does Your Heart Make When It Breaks?
Does your heart shatter like a pane of glass with a shudder, a splintering noise that cracks the air, the glass exploding into a thousand sparkling sharp shards?
Does the break sound like the wailings and keening of a mother who lost her child?
Or does your heart sit in a cold, numb enclosure folding in on itself, bitterness blocking out anything that smacks of emotion?
Or perhaps your heart holds a grief that stretches long, deep and wide, a river of grief, sometimes forceful as whitewater, other times meandering, but always present.
The Heart Responds to What the Heart Loves
The human existence holds so much pain and suffering.
Our wisdom traditions implore us to ease the suffering of one another.
To show mercy, compassion, to remove barriers that create inequality.
We are guided to widen our circumference of belonging, to see no one as a stranger.
These practices/orientations heal/repair our hearts and relationships.
The past two weeks in the United States have tested the resilience of all of us wholehearted folx.
Also, no one is coming to save us. We have to be here for one another.
Hold your heart in fierce tenderness. Honor your grief and your anger and your despair, They are sacred parts of a caring heart and not to be bypassed, but to fully metabolize and trace back, without bypassing, to love.
You feel because you care.
Remember what you love about this life.
Stay focused.
Lokah Samasta Sukinu Bhavantu- A mantra from the yogic tradition for these times. Let us live in this space of connection and support.
MAY ALL BEINGS BE WELL
MAY ALL BEINGS LIVE FREE AND SAFE FROM HARM
MAY ALL BEINGS HAVE PEACE
MAY MY THOUGHTS, MY WORDS AND MY ACTIONS CONTRIBUTE TO THE WELLNESS, SAFETY, FREEDOM AND PEACE OF ALL NEINGS.
So be it and so may it be