The Great Gift and Answer
In order to find our hearts we need to commit ourselves to a lifetime of self-cultivation. When we fully embrace this way of living we discover the means for achieving all of our goals.
No singular method will solve our problems and bring us what we want in life. Instead, we must learn a new attitude of heart and approach to living. It requires the development of a new kind of spirituality. We need a re-creation of what in Sanskrit was called a Bhakti Marga, translated as a path of devotion.
We actualize our potential through the sacred undertaking of devoting ourselves to the discovery of our heart.
The goal is not some end point, or even some final success. The goal is an immersion in the process itself. The finding is in the seeking. This is what gives us strength, courage and self-confidence.
Those who try to take a short-cut through life never reach their destination. How can we rush becoming a person? It is in this slow, ongoing process that we truly evolve, that the heart is made manifest.
The journey of finding the heart is a moral approach. It involves developing our virtues through continuous self-reflection. It is a commitment to realizing the full measure of our love. It involves devoting ourselves to the activities of our day to day lives -- to our partners, children, work, chores, play and health.
This concept of self formation, of cultivating our human essence, is the ideal of our new spirituality. Self-cultivation means that through the absolute investment of our thought, emotion, will, imagination, acts and love, we form our own character.
When we plumb to the depths of our own nature we come to know our highest purpose. By seeking within ourselves, overcoming every obstacle is possible. Through great effort, when we truly comprehend the intrinsic order of our natures, knowing what to do becomes simple, and doing it becomes easy.
What is involved in this daily process of self-cultivation? One aspect is to study the words of those who have traveled the great journey of finding their hearts before us. For thousands of years this practice of studying wisdom was considered the heart of education. The purpose of education was to guide us toward becoming the best possible person.
Through penetrating contemplation of the hearts of the wise, we come to know the meaning of their words in our hearts, which leads to a lived embodiment of their insights. As we revere the advance of wisdom in the exemplar, we revere ourselves by following their example. The stories of these sages become models for our own lives.
The path is not only long, but it is difficult. We need to go through what is obscure, dark, and difficult, to get to the light. We must be lost, and not know, to find ourselves. We must travel through our own hell, confronting our personal pain, to get to paradise.
To find the heart we must not think of comfort, but of virtue. When we live the path of self-cultivation, we put what will take us toward our ultimate aim above what will provide us with immediate gratification. The way to get what we want is often the harder way.
Through mastering a challenging goal set by ourselves we develop strength and a sure sense of our own capacities and powers. We come to an enhanced feeling of power and esteem.
When we surrender to the flow of life we gain the force and power of the universe, and this ultimately leads to great abundance. Rather than using our energies to resist the difficult, harder way, our energies are freed for the task with which we are presented. When we stop fighting, we are given everything. The impossible becomes easy. This is the great gift and answer.
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The Great Gift and Answer
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