The Stone and the Molten Heart

Oft-times I have come across stonelike exteriors, seemingly frozen in the hard form they occupy, seemingly homogeneous in their unknowing unfeeling efficiency.

Often I would accept this at face value, till I would catch glimpses which would not add up, a spark here a glimmer there. So incongrouous with the stony persona! It would confuse me, you see, I was still in the either-or mode, not aware of polarities, not accepting of the 'and' that this AND that can exist together. The stony persona could have a molten heart ...

Could it?

Well, the answer is yes.

This leads me to my next question to self. If indeed the stone has a molten heart, the stony exterior is for a reason. Who am I to disturb that unless the stone seeks the molten heart within? Unless the pain of this duality seeks balance..

If I am seeked as a conduit between the stony exterior and the molten heart, I happily will partner but if the duality is desired and has found its own balance in the external enviornment, I am no one to disturb it and bring the fragile stone come crashing down within its molten interior. It is not about 'me' or about my ability to show a way - that is nothing but my own duality seeking relief. It is about the other and their need. That is where I am as of now.

One thing however, I have learned is, some compassion. Not taking the stony exterior at face value. If it leaps out at me, I acknowledge its existance, if I see glimpses of something else, I acknowledge the existance of duality, the molten heart.. and this is all within me, my inner drama, not saying out loud. Not making an uncalled for intervention. So often action is mistaken for intervention, silence is intervention too, it depends on the context.

As life experience grows, this saga of the stone and the molten heart will move forward..

/Neha

2nd April'18