If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
[by Lao Tzu]
I had an epiphany…sort of. I lie in bed, about to go to sleep, playing around with the emWave, this biofeedback device which measures your heart coherence. It indicates your heart rate with a blinking led light. As I lie there in the dark, the room lights up a little with every heart beat: dark – dimly lit – dark – dimly lit… And then it dawned on me: even when I go to sleep in a bit and enter the realm of unicorns and La-la-land… my heart will keep on going…This is Consciousness with a capital C, which runs the whole show; Consciousness that is always on. That, even when I’m sound asleep, is fully awake and does not depend on any awareness or effort on my part. Marvelous.
I pictured myself sleeping while the soft blinking continued, trying to figure and feel how I’m extended beyond the physical me, or at least connected to a larger whole. A drop of water, the wave and the ocean: where does me (no, definitely no capital M) fit into this picture? I’ve had many rational musings on and an intellectual grasp of this stuff, but I really liked this visual image of a blinking frequency.
And I wondered…who or what is beating my heart, or is this an illusionary duality? Who or what constantly lights me up throughout my nights, days, weeks and months? Will it ever retire, throw in the towel? Or will the beat go on forever?
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