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'Rest In The Heart' - A New Book

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Here is the link where you can order the book from Rashani's website, discounted for the month of May.  https://www.rashani.com/booksandjournals/p/rest-in-the-heart    This is a stunning, colorful, coffee-table art book, using words that Rashani Réa selected from my writings to weave into her art. Thank you, Rashani, for all the labor of love that went into these mandala/collages! The purpose of this book is to provide portals through which the mind may descend into the heart, for the New Earth will manifest through humanity's Hridaya chakra. Below is  a sample page from the book, along with  the back cover where you can read endorsements by some notable authors and teachers. Click photos to enlarge.
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Heartbeat Meditation (Video)

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Your heartbeat is the mantra, the two-syllabled name of the Friend. Here is a short morning meditation on your heartbeak. Don't look at my silly face. Just close your eyes and listen. 
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Your Breath Is A New Creation

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     A profoundly simple instruction is re peated verbatim in the Shiva Sutras, the Vijnana Bhairava, and the Orthodox Christian Philokalia:  “rest the mind in the heart ."  The alchemy practiced by cats, Taoist masters, and breast-sated infants. There's no difference between purring, chanting "Om," or gurgling “Mama”   in the democracy of the heart. Y et it's really not a practice at all, but the surrender of practice, where doing yields to Being.     Rest the mind in the heart. If you want to stay safe, you might regard this as a method of relaxation or stress management. But if you are an adventurer, you'll let it be the portal to a New Creation. The Heart is not just a beating organ for aerating your blood, but a doorway.  At an ancient temple , you  could only pass over  the threshold after removing your shoes. Shoes represented the beliefs and assumptions covering pure consciousness. You had to remove the dust on your feet...
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Homecoming

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  How many times must I hear Buddha say "breathe in, breathe out" before I can do it myself? I got tired of being spiritual so I came home, built a fire, made coffee, took out my mother's cup and ran my fingers over hair-thin crazing, brown in blue. But mostly I came home to hug you, dearest friend, fur on fur. I got tired of being spiritual, so I came home to Being. Photo: still life in my kitchen 
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