The lungs are the parents of the heart. Each lends support: flanking and caressing as well as nourishing and nurturing. The left lung is the mother and the right the father. And this is the way into one's own heart: through the breath and absolutely not through thinking. We breathe long and strong, filling the lungs with a breath firmly anchored on the hard stable stone of the dantien. Exercise the breath. Despite what anyone tells you it won't attend to itself. It is fundamental, and in all spiritual disciplines it is the traditional antidote to the calculating mind.