The Heart as Mother of the World: The Gate of Sorrow
Overcome any bitterness because you were not up to
the magnitude of pain entrusted to you.
Like the mother of the world you are carrying
the pain of the world in your heart.
SUFI
"Then comes the fourth centre, the heart centre, called anahata. The word is beautiful, anahata means unstruck sound.
The fourth centre, the anahata, is very significant, because it is in the heart that for the first time you were related to your mother. It was through the heart that you were related to your mother, not through the head. In deep love, in deep orgasm, again you are related through the heart, not through the head. In meditation, in prayer, the same happens: you are related with existence through the heart -- heart-to-heart. Yes, it is a dialogue heart-to-heart, not head-to- head. It is non-linguistic.
This is the fourth centre. And Tantra says through love you will come to know this fourth centre."
We enter the gates of awakening carried by the same melodies, the same songs of joy and despair that first called us to the spirit. The ocean of life brings us waves of birth and death, joy and sorrow. For many, as at the beginning of our search, it is the painful truths of life that become our sacred gateway, that open us to the great heart of compassion. The blow of tragedy, the devastation of our losses may have begun our return to spirit. Now, in a deeper octave, this dimension of awakening opens our being to the shared pain of the world. To enter through this state is called "Awakening by the Gate of Sorrow."
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
Jack Kornfield
Shatter my heart so new room
can be created for limitless love.
