The Educated Heart

Photo Credit: Delphina Raven, Grand Mesa, CO, USA

An educated mind, without an educated heart, is a heartless and narcissistic menacing machine that manipulates, exploits, and tyrannizes. 

A heart that is truly educated from life experiences and daily practice, not merely wearing of a cloak or badge of empathy, is the real deal. 

It is what we do every day to nurture and foster in educating the heart that creates an outcome of an unpolluted, educated heart. Merely expecting that outcome is only a shell, a cloak, a badge, with zero substance, similarly to wearing an object or putting on an act merely serves as an empty symbolism of an empty heart full of mere weightless words. 

When the heart is truly full, such is the meaning of living mindfulness, because the origins of this word “mindfulness” come from the Chinese word, 念. The top component of the character means “fully in now”, and the bottom part means “heart”. In essence, mindfulness means “Heart fully in the Now”. In that vein, the mind is actually in the heart, not divorced from the heart. The heart is where love resides. 

When an educated heart is nurtured via daily practice, it won’t need grandstanding with moral superiority or a sense of righteousness or entitlement. Morals and ethics will simply be side effects or necessary consequences. Instead the educated mindful heart would be full of true and real humility, opening the path to true compassion. A truly compassionate and educated heart does not weaponize victimhood mindset, which in effect disempowers others; instead it continues to see people with different (and even opposing) viewpoints as human first, not dehumanize them, and it actually empowers the powerless. 

To continually nurture an educated heart is a daily practice in mindfulness. It is not for the lazy nor is it convenient or a wave of a magical wand. It is hard work. Everything that we do each day builds the groundwork for tomorrow, no matter what it is. So why not put a full heart into educating the mindful heart, toward building the web of humanity, instead of burning the bridges of humanity? 

The Greatest Gift of Life

Photo Credit: Delphina Raven, Monica Meadows, Purcell Mountains, BC, Canada

The Greatest Gift of Life
Is the Magic of the
Multiverse planetary cosmos
The Blue Dot
Aka Mother Earth

In our relentless pursuit
For more of 
The materialistic and mechanistic
The pretension and incapability of playing Creator
Of the Dead and Undead

We forgot how to
Listen, Feel, Look, Sense, Breathe
The Magic, Mystery, and Meaningness of Life
That is within us
That surrounds us

We forgot our
Deep Connection via
Roots to the planet earth and Water of Life 
Beneath our bare feet
Reach to the Skies above our heads

We have divorced from
That Exquisite Balance of Mother Earth
Our Ultimate Teacher and Elder
While we burn in the Hell
Of our relentless, mindless pursuit for excess

Blind to the Ultimate Gift of Life
We are the walking blind
The walking dead
Obsessed with
Living within four walls of artificiality

Yet

It’s all there
If we dare to cultivate 
Humility
Open our eyes, ears, senses, mind
To connect deeply 

With the Greatest Gift of Life