Ram Dass’s Teaching About Opening the Heart: Simple, Beautiful and Hard to Master
I struggle with it every day.
In the spiritual arena, the heart is the center of emotion and of the deeply ethereal and mysterious.
Teachings about the heart are, inherently, figurative and not literal. That is, if someone urges us to keep our heart open, they aren’t asking us to physically maneuver our aortas or ventricles.
For that reason, teachings a…