Silence is the key signature of the heart.
From that arises all things,
feelings of arousal,
in relationship, in life,
feelings of gratitude or grief
coherence or dissolution
feelings to radiate
to dissolve
to resolve.

The mind penetrates the heart with its wisdom.
Depending upon how well we have developed the mind, we seed the heart with clear or unclear impulses, mature or immature.
If our wisdom had not matured beyond 2 year old behavior, then we are stuck in that mode.
If we have developed keen insight, then we are likely to implant keen seeds within the heart.
We then cultivate those seeds until they ripen.
And we see the culmination of those seeds at harvest time.
Now is the time of harvest for many of us.
Are those fruits pungent or sweet?
Bitter or delightful?

What do we wish to harvest in our lives?
To the wise ones, the fruit we wish to harvest will determine the seeds which we plant.

What we emanate within our own heart will determine who we are, who we will become, and what legacy we leave behind.

The good thing about the heart garden is, it is easy to weed.
If we have not planted good seed, we can weed it, till it, even fertilize it with the compost of our sorrows, remove the rocks and stones to line it with, and diligently choose the seeds of compassion, forgiveness, healing, contentment, peacefullness, passion, love and joy, even ecstasy, which we wish to nurture and ripen, to harvest in next year's garden.  Carefully choose the next crop you wish to ripen.

Diligently sit in your garden this fall, contemplating the garden you wish to pre-tend for next year.
In silence, sit with the sounds and offerings of your inner landscape.
Let arise from deep within the temples of your heart, the seeds you wish to sow.
Prepare the soil.

Spring is here sooner than you know.

Blessings in your harvests.
Though the nurturing of the garden is the part I love the most.


From silence, all things arise.

Blessings.

Zacciah

Author,
Zacciah Blackburn
The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies
Ascutney, VT  05030   USA
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Zacciah Blackburn is a sound healer trained in classical healing and shamanic traditions, and sacred sound cultures, and is practicing at The Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies, in Ascutney, VT.   Zacciah has studied with a variety of master teachers of various spiritual lineages, including elders of North, South, and Central American traditions, incorporating these teachings into his work over a 3 decade period.  Zacciah is Director of Education for the New England Sound Healing Research Institute (NESHRI,) a worldwide community of healing practitioners broadening the awareness of sound healing through networking, education, and scientific research.  He is also co-founder of the World Sound Healing Organization, and the All One Now network of organizations furthering world peace, healing, and transformation of human consciousness through simple ceremony and Elders wisdom, broadcast live via the internet.  

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Further Discussion:

From one reader:
Zacciah
this is lovely; however, the Tibetans point to the heart when they are saying 'mind.'
All things come from the heart.    The wisdom of the heart affects the brain.  The mind is within the heart.

ZB:  I am quite aware of the Tibetans use of mind and heart...thanks for pointing it out....
I did not use the term "brain" in my own interpolation, you might have noticed, though it appears you interpreted it as such........
Yet, there is, in my own understanding and experience, a difference in the mental construct/template of thought, and the body of energy we refer to as feeling, not necessarily emotion....
In hindi, this might be viewed as the shiva/shakti of creative expression as it arises within our own being...
The planting of the seed of activation/thought (masculine principal,) into the body energy of receptivity/feeling (feminine principal,) germinating our thought into manifestation....
There is, no doubt, much more we could both share about this!
Take care!
Zacciah