The Internal

The basic premise of Heartwork is that the truth is out there, not in here. This is why we always go forward – why we have no measure to our actions other than the extent to which we can become there. In a sense calling the work Internal is a misnomer because it is not inside as opposed to outside. It is simply an ever elusive quality that permeates and pervades everything, which we can wake up to and connect to and become if we so wish, at the drop a hat – no need for decades of physical or energy training. What makes it internal is its elusive quality – the fact that it is always outside anyone's grasp. One can work with it but any attempts to harness it or make it work for you and it disappears and is all you are left with is self and the allies or tools of self – thinking, analysis, energy, ch'i, spirit, etc. If you begin to touch it – something you can do if you ever become quiet and gentle enough to acknowledge its presence – then you will fall in love with it and the general thrust of your life will from then on be dedicated to it. Touch is the vital word here – it is all in the touch – the soft probing of a surface that it always shifting. You need as many threads of interest working for you as possible. These are like tiny tentacles of between-energy that your receptiveness – your active listening – wakens in the between. Each one is alive and seeks its own subtle point of entry, into you and into the other. They encourage you both on some (often subliminal) level into the internal, the only place where real communication – mutual transformation – can take place. The purpose of the work – the practice – is to reduce ourselves into beings not only devoted to the internal, touching it every so often, but manifesting it in every particle of our being. What really sends the internal scurrying for the hills is coarseness and unreceptiveness of any kind. The average person has a zone of negativity around them – a space of disbelief – in which the internal cannot manifest. It doesn't mean the average person is bad but simply that they are too busy and puffed up with self concerns to allow the internal any entry into their lives. Of course the internal does find a way in – it is nothing if not persistent – but unless that person begins to shift their priorities away from self and towards the development of a richer and more aware internal reality then their life is essentially wasted. The average person is a master of avoidance – a master of busily working very hard at the wrong thing. What is required is a re-balancing – a re-prioritizing – of the whole life – a massive yield. This is what the teacher and the teaching require of you – a destiny. If you manage it then you become useful to both and so both will accept you with open arms and your passage into the deeper and richer realms of the internal is assured, assuming you have the courage to weather the inevitable suffering. If you refuse to redirect and rededicate your life then you will always be on the outside – nose pressed to the pane – wondering what it's all about.