David Minarro
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During this week I´ve been staying in contact with the Heart Sutra in different forms, but the one I´ve connected more with it is listening to a chanted version that I found, interpreted by a singer with a beautiful voice called Dema Premal.
I feel this version has allowed me to open to this teaching from an emotional dimension and stay with it for longer stretches of time than I would have had if I had chosen a different platform. What is it doing to me? I still don’t know, at least from a more rational point of view, but I intuitively can say that I feel an opening of the chest and an enhanced feeling of vulnerability. And I notice that this feeling is layered with a sense of courage to face the world and its intricate relations from that vulnerability, knowing that it will be a good compass to navigate through the waves, as painful, invigorating, frustrating or triumphant as it may feel at times.
What I need to tell myself today is that it is ok to feel this vertigo, and that there is a huge stream of power and elegance that comes from it.
I love Brenda that you are enjoying this journey! and that you are becoming more accommodative with irritation and discomfort.Hi everyone.
David here, openhearter from Spain!
This week I made a very simple, yet very useful, adjustment in my morning routine that made me feel connected to the paramita of Discipline, akin coming back to what is important to us, in this case, my meditation practice.
Luckily, I am on holidays this week, and when I don´t have to work, sometimes I proscatinate my meditation practice a little bit, as I sit down for it after I do other things that I am humanly inclined to do when I wake up, as preparing breakfast, answering messages, cleaning, etc. I always end up sitting down and doing my practice, but somehow I don´t feel I benefit as much from it doing it in my midday or early afternoon. So this weeek I committed myself to do it differently.
What I am doing now is waking up, preparing a short coffe while I walk my dog for ten minutes, which allows to connect with the energy of the new day and nature, and before I do anything else, I sit down and I do my practice. It may sound as a very small achievement that maybe doesn´t even deserve this public recognition, but I am very proud of it, and I feel I really benefit from starting my day that way, it provides a different frame to everything that happens after, and I feel I prioritise what is really meaningful to me. Also, my dog is happier.
Maybe in the future I will be able to do it fasting without that very first coffee, but right now I am not at that point, and I allow myself that little indulgence with compassion.
Thanks for reading.
Kindest regards to all of you .
David