Grail

I think the human heart is the holy grail. This physical beating organ is round and full of blood, yet it is only the grounding site of the real heart, an energy field that extends into the vastness of the galaxy.

In the holy eucharist, the priest dips a little piece of bread into the cup of wine. That wine cup is our heart. It must be polished and emptied by the breath of devotion. Then it can be filled with amrita, the nectar of divine inebriation.

Christ is the wine steward but the wine does not pour down from above. It bubbles up from within, from a wellspring deeper that our own self, like a black whole at the core of our body, radiating creation. That is why Jesus said, "What I give you to drink will be a fountain welling up inside you unto eternal life."

In truth, our body is the morsel of bread dipped in the wine of its own heart. The heart is not in the body, but the body is in the heart. Wherever we walk gently on the earth is the alter of the grail. The interior of the grail is bottomless and centerless. Its circumference is infinite. All is Communion.