Week 3: Meditating in the Spiritual Heart

Meditating in the Spiritual Heart

If you think you have problems
With your mind,
Then immediately try to feel
The ready-made solutions
Inside your heart.
- Sri Chinmoy

Goals

In this third week you will:

• Continue your regular, daily meditation practice at your shrine.

• Learn about the paramount importance of your spiritual heart.

• Learn techniques to help you enter into your spiritual heart.

Your True Home

During your concentration exercises last week, you discovered a higher aware-ness which is separate from your mind. We all know where our mental awareness lives—somewhere above and between our shoulders—but where does this higher awareness live?

Your highest awareness lives in the spiritual heart. But what and where is the spiritual heart? Let’s start with where. Close your eyes for a moment (after you finish this paragraph, that is). With your index finger, point to yourself while saying “me.” Do this several times. Where did your finger end up? On your spiritual heart. Now that you know where it is, let’s talk about what it is.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery