The heart

[Redstone]

Within the heart are unfathomable depths.

There are reception rooms and bedchambers in it, doors and porches and many offices and passages.

In it is the workshop of righteousness and of wickedness.

In it is death; in it is life.

The heart is Christ’s palace. There Christ the King comes to take his rest with the angels and the spirits of the saints, and He dwelleth there, walking within it and placing His kingdom there.

The heart is but a small vessel; and yet dragons and lions are there, and there are poisonous creatures and all the treasures of wickedness; rough uneven paths are there, and gaping chasms.

There likewise is God; there are the angels; there life and the Kingdom, there light and the apostles, the heavenly cities and the treasures of grace.

All things are there.


Saint Makarios

[Tux]

1. Odd

I thought my heart was valves, walls, and blood.

[Redstone]

2. OK.

Redstone

[universalcitizen]

3. The heart of the matter is

much different than the heart of the spirit. We are spiritual beings, housed in this matter we call bodies. Matter created by spirit. In this is our likeness to The Creator, that we create our lives and our environment by our imaginations. And our creations reveal the heart, whether it be filled with the light or the darkness, life or death.

[H2O Man]

4. This is true.

In many ways, it is a matter of sight. There are people who we call "color blind." Of course, they are not blind, and they see color. But they are not able to process color the same in their brain as the majority of people. And so if Redstone were to say what color he sees the human heart in a poetic description of the energy of life, a color blind person might not appreciate it, in the same manner as others.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Qalb

is the Arabic word for heart. Here's a Dance of Universal Peace lyric based on a Sufi poem:

Go sweep out the chambers of your heart
Make it ready, make it ready
To be the dwelling of the Beloved
When you deprt, Love will enter
In you, void of yourself
God will display God's beauties

[aneerkoinos]

6. Chackras or "points"

There's only two one needs to pay attention to (unless one chooses the path of a Yogi-bear), to realize, feel and see: the one below navel, the centre of being, the centre of power, and the one close to the physical heart, the centre of unity, the centre of truth.

If there is no separation between these points, life is mindfull, life is bliss, there is no separation between inside and outside. I had that experience only once, of course I blew it and squandered that perfect consentration.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Sufis have practices

with breath involving those two centers. The one by the solar plexus (called the Hara Center in the Hebrew tradition, I believe)is the focus of creativity-the coming into manifestation. The Qalb center is one of spreading Light. Doing practices involving the breath and these two centers has a very expansive effect, especially if done under the direction of a master.

[aneerkoinos]

8. Its funny

How all these methods are universal... only names and minor details are different

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. the teachings are the teachings are the teachings

you can tell because they all say the same thing, only in different words. :)