The Seer

When awakening happens, the heart has to open. For realization to be complete it has to really hit on three levels — head, heart, and gut — because you can have a very clear, enlightened mind, which you’ll know in a deep way, but your being won’t be dancing.

Then, when the heart starts to open just like the mind, your being starts to dance. Then everything comes alive. And when your gut opens up, there is that deep, deep, unfathomable stability where that opening, who is you, just died into transparency. It’s become the absolute. You are That.

There is an expression, “solid emptiness.” In the mind, the emptiness isn’t so solid. It’s very space-like, ethereal, and that’s enlightenment on the level of mind. Enlightenment on the level of heart is an aliveness, a sense that all of me is dancing. The enlightenment on the level of gut is an emptiness that is similar to that of the mind, but it’s like a mountain, a transparent mountain. All of these are expressions in the human being of the Truth.

Many times when people are awakening to this love, they will tell me, “Adya, it’s just too much for me — its going to tear me apart.” Ridiculous! Too much for you? You’re transparent. You are empty. It just goes through you and beyond. Through you and beyond! It’s only when you hold yourself in a particular way that it feels like too much. You are holding an idea of your personal boundary, your edge, and of course you can’t contain it. Love was never meant to be contained.

~ From: Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti