Waking Heart is a collection of personal essays, articles, and videos about love, relationships, and emotion in the domain of spiritual awakening. Written and illustrated by a Buddhist meditator and psychology doctoral student, the essays follow the twists and turns of one person’s journey to the Divine. There are periods of luminosity and periods of darkness, moments of clarity and moments of confusion. At times, the journey seems to reach a dead end only to open up into an entirely new realm of being. No matter how difficult things seem to get, never is the fundamental ground of love and peace truly lost.
Rather than hoping that some sort of spiritual awakening will make relationships work and produce only positive emotions, the difficulties in relationships and emotional pain are seen as tools for awakening. The role of love and compassion in transforming the dream state into one of self-realization is explored. What exactly is love, and what does it mean to be awake? If you really want to know, you will.
“mindjob” Heh!
I love this: “The more confused you are, the better.” Than I’m doing great
Thanks for giving us another way to view love relationships. I struggle a lot like your sociology student did, wanting something tangible, but when I can drop that love just becomes a field we swim in, with no reason to attach to anything. Another lovely post!
-M
Haha, yes, I went with the non-obscene synonym. There seem to be some situations for which profanity says it all just right.
mindfudgesomething that messes with your head a lotstupid thesaurus *!#^@You are the most beautiful person I have ever had the honor to know. thank you for the gifts you give to us all every day.
scott
Aw Scott, thank you, but go look in a mirror. And, can you send me your address again? ;-D
“when I choose to love, that love is divine”
LOVE that. ok, i don’t think in terms of divinity, but i get it.
my emphasis is always on the quality of the love. i had never thought of the moment, that nanosecond of choosing love, as the perfection.