Practice 9

Heart Focus

Congratulations on making it to Practice 9! Read on if you are in the “Heart” phase of the program. If you are still in Mind/Body, turn back and practice any previous meditation that you’d like and return here when you’re in “Heart.”

Peaceful joy is a specific vibration. Vibrations reside in their own dimension of existence, though we can invite them in if we learn how to clear our vessel. 

The true attribute of Essential Nature, The Original Essence latent within each of is, is the vibration of our particular Holy Virtue but also includes all of the Enneagram Holy Virtues. These are the vibrational states one reveals in authentic Self-Realization.

When the peaceful, joyful state of our Original Essence is fully perceived, searching, clinging, and craving cease. There is no more need, lack, or fear. There is just the simple and perfect condition of radiant clarity coupled with impartial compassion.

When we are not perceiving this quality of vibration, when we are not emanating our true inherent nature, we seek fulfillment from the outside.

Most everyone is seeking in this way, but most are totally unaware of it.

To anyone truly investigating, it becomes clear that all of humanity is constantly searching for something—striving and unconsciously grasping at a host of external influences that bring us nothing but the experience of more lack and need.

Beyond simply ‘resisting what is’, this is also the nature of suffering: seeking something outside of us, allowing outer forces to control our ability to receive our own love and happiness. This is the antithesis of the total and absolute unbounded freedom that is the Essential Nature.

So how do we break the chains of ego that lead to external seeking, and attain the vibration of our Holy Virtue regardless of what is perceived in the egoic body-brain vehicle?

Throughout every culture, and within all forms of esoteric spirituality, we find one true and authentic process of alleviating this need to search out external factors for fulfillment, joy, peace, love, devotion, and compassion.

Until we unlock this state of completeness we are just potential cycling through life, death, and life again; over and over seemingly without end. Now is the time to act. Now is the time to awaken.

This path is an esoteric one, and it requires us to first make space between what we are, and what we are not. Why is it esoteric? Because everything we have yet to discover for ourselves remains a mystery to us and can not be accessed strictly by our thinking minds or by ‘doing.’ In this way the Path itself is mysterious—difficult to understand until we have broken through the barrier that conceals the mystery of the great magisterium all around us.

The Path to awakening can be viewed in two major distinct stages: the first is the Foundation, which makes up the largest portion consisting of the Mind/Body & Heart phases. It is through these processes that we attain the vibration of our Holy Virtue—our flavor of awakened presence. Later, in the Spirit phase, as an adept, the final aspects are assembled until full liberation from the system is attained.

The Mind/Body & Heart phases are by far the most challenging and intense aspect of the program, and it takes grit to finish them; a heroic mindset is required. With your inner fortitude, please approach this part of the path with fervency and continue to make presence a primary focus. Without this level of intensity, we stand less of a chance to break through the limiting shell which is reinforced by the illusion constantly feeding and driving our habitual, compulsive tendencies of the personality.

Building this foundation removes entanglements with these habit energies that normally overwhelm us into believing a lie: that we are this transient, dual-minded being, limited and weak. Attaining awakened presence removes the dual condition and opens a different perception of reality. It is not only one, but it is no longer two, and that is all that can be said about it. To know the state, we must experience it directly (beyond thought), for ourselves.

In the Heart phase, we are also letting go of pain, trauma, and fear. This is required to climb the latter of ascension into higher states of vibrational consciousness.

The egoic system that attempts to force us to grasp, compels us to use others, complies with external power, promotes lies, and celebrates greed seeks to keep us imprisoned in an unconscious state—insisting that we are a part of it. It is the prison cell we seek to break free of in our awakening into presence, but it’s no easy task because we’ve been indoctrinated into it our whole lives. From the moment we’re born this system attempts to dictate who we are, what we know, how we feel, and how we react; it never relents.

These deep, underlying energies must be brought up and released in order to reveal what lies underneath, which is our higher selves. This is why it is so important to traverse the Mind/Body & Heart stages with conviction as we adopt the tools that empower the operation to free ourselves from that which seeks to keep us unconscious.

Before we can realize our Authentic Power—revealing our Original Essence, our nature before our parents were born—we will need to have amplified Vital Energy, strengthened our Will energy (focus), and heightened our intentions. In other words, we will need the power to maintain the crucial inward-pointed focus and strong aspiration, remaining dedicated to our aim.

This helps you first awaken into the experience of presence itself (the now), which is your first major goal. It is also the entrance to Extraordinary Awareness, which we seek to achieve in the Spirit phase, and is where you realize you are supreme consciousness itself (self-realization). When you are able to bring this big, higher-self through your personality, you have achieved Authentic Power, which leads you to living full-time in awakened presence without much interference from your ego-self. This self unlocks the healing the world wants to receive from you and enables your dreams of manifestation to come true.

Our higher self does not change, it only becomes more revealed. To reach the higher, we cannot expect it to lower itself into us. Instead, we must release our fears in such a way that we rise into it. It is only then that we can expect to operate from that higher, more radiant dimension of Extraordinary Awareness in presence.

These foundations of Mind/Body & Heart are about releasing the ego structures, limiting beliefs/agreements, and subtle fears that reinforce unconscious, automatic and compulsive reactions that hinder our progress. The resulting changes are enough to lighten us up into the Spirit phase of this experience.

This seeking will lead to finding. This knocking will lead to an opening. We begin with the love within.