Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Hold a pot filled with water in your hand, keep your hands still, let the water remain calm and still, and then try looking at it ... there will be a clear reflection of your face in it. Try throwing a pebble in the pot, there will be ripples, the same reflection will now be distorted with multiple images of the same face.
This is the exact relation of mind with heart. The heart holds the entire knowledge of the universe in which we live. Excessive thoughts, act like pebbles creating ripples and reflecting multiple images, these images are illusions of the real image.
Rumi has wisely said: "Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation." A beautiful quote - it is in silence, in stillness of the mind where everything reflects its true nature, its true image. The rest is all nothing but distorted images, poor translations - interpretations of the mind.
The mind's job is to read the heart, by listening to it, surrendering the flow of thoughts to silence, so it can listen to the information coming from the heart without any distortions.
I keep referring to children in almost all my articles. The reason is so that we may start observing their behaviour, the patterns in which they function, so we can start getting closer to what we truly are deep within.
Children have a very strong relation with their hearts. They are very much in touch with the voice of the heart, information, message which in its lowest vibration is termed as intuition. The more you as a mind pay attention to it, the more refined will the frequency of its vibration be.
Let's sketch an example here; you are in a dark room with zero visibility, you start relying on your senses, trusting the sense you follow it and you take a step forward, the more you move, the closer you get to any object which is in the room. Of course, with zero visibility initially you are only able to feel and not identify what the object is, but with a curious mind, free of pre-defined notions you continue to move forward.
The first step is to silence the mind from thoughts generated by previously stored behaviour; instead of trying to look at what you want to look at, try to feel what the heart is emitting, what signals it is giving, inform of sensations and feelings.
Follow them, do not interpret them. To be able to achieve this focus, this concentration, you will have to reduce all the activity of the mind caused by various thoughts, which are nothing but interpretations of the old mind.
A calm mind will start to pick on senses which it couldn't have accessed otherwise. Once the mind is free from thoughts, it naturally becomes curious, because its true nature is to follow, to know. Mind, in its true state, is only a witness to everything.
Everything is energy and so is thought. Thought is the lowest vibration of energy. With a focused mind of utmost concentration, the mind starts to access the depth of vibrations and every thought starts to appear as an image. This is exactly what happens when you go to sleep. The mind's conscious act of looking is suspended and the mind is simply witnessing things the way they are - witnessing thoughts in their highest form of vibrations, which appear as images.
"By learning to observe our thoughts, rather than mechanically react on them only, can lead to a new level of being, one in which everything is possible, even our own becoming." - Bob Fergeson
