Spacious Mind – Spacious Heart

This week’s words are by Frans Stiene from an article titled “Spacious Mind Spacious Heart.”

In many spiritual traditions, the essence of the mind-heart is symbolized by space. But why is this? Our true mind-heart is a union with the universe. The universe has no beginning or end and therefore our mind-heart is as spacious as the universe. Space is a great metaphor because nothing sticks to space, we cannot hurt space, space cannot be damaged, and it can accommodate everything and anything.

When, through daily meditation practice, we start to remember our own spacious mind-heart, we will therefore become more accommodating to everybody. This in turn will increase our compassion. Often we are only compassionate to our family and friends; we are in a way narrow-minded in our mind-heart. And as such, we cannot accommodate more people, let alone accommodate animals, trees, you name it.

But through consistent practice, our mind-heart will be so spacious that our compassion includes everything. Everything will become sacred and therefore everything will be treated with respect, kindness, compassion, and love.

This is a wonderful expression of the reality of our true self. We all have the capacity to connect with and embody the mind-heart of the universe, our true nature.