Let Your Heart Take Over

Take a random collection of people you interact with, your family, colleagues, old friends, people you care less about, previous lovers, and look at each photo just a couple of seconds and then move on to the next. What feelings pop up and what thoughts? Do it and you will find a whirlpool of emotions in that short time span. We are are sure you will also find plenty of judgements; in effect, a ranking of people, because that is what the mind tends to do.

But then, take a collection of photos of people you have interacted with for a long time. It might be your siblings, lovers with whom you have shared a big part of your life with, buddies of yours you have gone to school and college together for many years or colleagues you have gone through thick and thin with. Observe for yourself, is there a hierarchy at all? If you truly love someone the mind doesn't get involved, the emotions have a straight connection to your heart.

You may ask how to get to that loving state if our mind is wired that way. There is a simple solution. Let life transform you. If you just perceive the world from your mind perspective, you will have no idea what others are going through. The native Americans are saying that that if you truly want to understand someone you have to walk in their moccasins for a day. True empathy comes if you open up to life and get a taste for what your brothers and sisters go through. If you have lost a lover you suddenly know how hard it is to function normally again. If you had to take care of a sick friend or family member you realize how frail life can be and if you start a business you end up seeing what it means if you lose important customers or actually having to fire a friend.

All your experiences are meaningful for you and can make you the person you were born to be if you embrace life with open arms. Good experiences as well as bad ones are part of the Tao's lesson plan. Good experiences make you enjoy life while bad ones make you enjoy people. We are all one. Along the Tao you will only see love. Judgement can be expelled out of your mind and even your subconscious. Love accomplishes that feat. Life is not black or white and neither is it grey. Life is multi-colored and it is beautiful, but unfortunately incomplete if any of your soul siblings would be missing from it.

By Christian and Su Zhen