When
talking about awareness, most of us identify with our awareness through
the ego, through the mind and senses. But the true self is in the
middle of our chest, in our spiritual heart. So, to get from ego to the
true self I said “I am loving awareness.” Loving awareness is the soul. I
am loving awareness. I am aware of everything, I’m aware of my body and
my senses and my mind, I’m aware of all
of it, but I notice that I’m loving all of it. I’m loving all of the
world. The self that I identify with emanates from the ocean of love.
The self that is the ego is the ocean of fear. When I am loving
awareness I’m aware of everything outside, but pulling into the heart,
the spiritual heart, brings me to loving awareness. I’m aware of my
thoughts, but loving awareness is simply witnessing them. And loving
awareness is in the moment. I have thoughts about the past and future,
and those are not helpful, so I dive deep into the present and the
presence and in this present moment we will find loving awareness. Only
this moment is real, this moment of loving awareness. The past and the
future are all just thoughts.
In this spiritual heart there is peace, there is contentment, and there is compassion. There is also joy and wisdom, all inside of your spiritual heart and mine. So when you say “I want a peaceful world” you don’t look outside, you go inside where peace exists. In Hinduism the spiritual heart is called the “atman,” and it’s the God within.
In Hinduism there is a story about a horse drawn carriage. The horseman who is on top of the carriage represents the ego, and the spiritual heart or the soul is in the carriage. The horses represent your motivation, and anytime the soul decides that the horse is going the wrong way, the soul takes his stick and taps on the window and tells the horseman to go in a different direction. So most of us identify with the horseman, because you are an incarnation that includes the ego. The soul has come from many previous incarnations, it’s been through many births and deaths and it has no fear. The ego is afraid that when this incarnation is ended, it’s all going to end. The soul knows that he or she goes through incarnation after incarnation. Your incarnation includes your parents, your body, your friends, your culture. I am in this body – this body, my personality, are all in time and space, but I am not in time or space. I am infinite. I am loving awareness.
In this spiritual heart there is peace, there is contentment, and there is compassion. There is also joy and wisdom, all inside of your spiritual heart and mine. So when you say “I want a peaceful world” you don’t look outside, you go inside where peace exists. In Hinduism the spiritual heart is called the “atman,” and it’s the God within.
In Hinduism there is a story about a horse drawn carriage. The horseman who is on top of the carriage represents the ego, and the spiritual heart or the soul is in the carriage. The horses represent your motivation, and anytime the soul decides that the horse is going the wrong way, the soul takes his stick and taps on the window and tells the horseman to go in a different direction. So most of us identify with the horseman, because you are an incarnation that includes the ego. The soul has come from many previous incarnations, it’s been through many births and deaths and it has no fear. The ego is afraid that when this incarnation is ended, it’s all going to end. The soul knows that he or she goes through incarnation after incarnation. Your incarnation includes your parents, your body, your friends, your culture. I am in this body – this body, my personality, are all in time and space, but I am not in time or space. I am infinite. I am loving awareness.
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