Sharing with you one of the most important spiritual lessons I ever learned (spoiler: you already know how to do it)
March 3, 2025 | 14 CommentsAudio only version is here
Meditation practice begins at 18:58
Hello, wonderful Open Heart Project.
In the past weeks, I’ve tried to convey to you how important your practice is–and not just for yourself (which it is), but for others and for this world. I outlined 6 points to explain how we view our practice here in the OHP as way more than self-help, but as a path of genuine transformation. If you want to go back and listen (or re-listen), they are all listed below.
This week, I share with you the 7th point: one of the most important spiritual lessons I ever learned, though it seemed at first to be masquerading as advice from some Miss Manners or other. IT ISN’T!!
Here it is: Clean up after yourself, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Please have a listen to this video where I walk through what this means. And share a very embarrassing story about something stupid I did involving pizza boxes.
Enjoy!
With love,
Susan
The OHP View of Practice:
We Engage in Daily Ritual
We Live as Mystics (Hiding in Plain Sight)
The Personal is Not the Obstacle–It is the Way
The Meaning and Power of Heartbreak
The Importance of Dreaming to Make a Better World
Maintaining Mental and Emotional Boundaries
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14 Comments
Thank you , thank you for your guidance; these powerful reminders.
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Yes, yes,yes. 🔆🔆🔆
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Thank you for your guidance and encouragement.
Loved the words:-‘not crafting -rather shepherding my life’.
You are so welcome! <3 S
Dear Susan, This weekend, I experienced a bit of a breakdown in the face of overwhelming events in my life, that occurred in a seemingly endless cascade over a short time. In my misery, I was comforted by remembering your words from the video “the meaning and power of heartbreak”. And suddenly I was aware of how powerful my meditation was in helping me stay and be with this painful time. Thank you so much for being such a important part of my meditation journey. 🙏🏻
Oh Catherine. I’m so sorry to hear you’re having a hard time–and so grateful you have learned to stay. I hope the difficulties will pass easily and quickly and your self-awareness will be your strongest support. With love, Susan
Thanks for another practical teaching on how important it is for us as householders to clean up and maintain our inner and outer environments. I had a two-year period of feeling so overwhelmed and powerless that I just couldn’t clean up my house, or my mind, which I filled with garbage from commercial media. I was so fortunate to join the Open Heart Project in December 2021 which sparked a very slow recovery, but a recovery, nonetheless. How fortunate for me that, a few months ago, aided by regular meditation practice, studying dharma, and being in a supportive community, my mind got cleaned up enough that I could see the value of cleaning up and decluttering my space and could actually do it on a daily basis. In turn, being in a more orderly space helped my mind to focus and pay attention to one or two priorities, rather than a smorgasbord of possibilities of mind-grabbing distractions. Susan, your 2025 teachings are so relevant to me (is my inner teacher agreeing with you?). I also agree how necessary it is for me to clean up my mistakes in my relationships with others and to admit when I am wrong in a timely manner, and to go the next step (like making brownies). The feminine wisdom is so needed in this time of living in the jealous god realm. Finally, thank you for sharing your excellent example of how to ‘not let things hang out there’. and for giving me a couple of minutes of belly-laughing as I listened to your story 🙂
Carol, I totally relate to your story. And, truly, it is amazing how our mind and environment impact each other in both directions. More power to the inner teacher! And I remain extremely happy to practice together. With love, Susan PS Pizza boxes notwithstanding!!
I loved this message yesterday and I loved it again this morning! Your teaching feels practical, real, and oh so human. Your message rippled through the day as I shared the pizza box story with other folks.
We are all in this life together!
Mary Lou, so happy to read this! May the pizza box story be of benefit to all beings! xoxo S
You are a good teacher.
Not a guru. 🪻🪻🪻
Thank you, Diane! <3 S