Stephen Harrod Buhner

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To See Rightly

Indigenous peoples who still live close to the earth experience life very differently than we do in the West; they seem to perceive things that we cannot see, things that they are surprised we do not perceive. The explanation for this is simple, but profound: when you ask them where in the body they live, they gesture to the region of their hearts, while modern Westerners typically point to their heads. Perhaps the great lyrical writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had some insight into this phenomenon when he wrote, “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Stephen Harrod Buhner

 

 

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The Eyes and Ears of the Heart

Heart cognition … allows us to deeply experience the living soulfulness of the world, constantly reweaving us back into the fabric of life.

— Stephen Harrod Buhner*

 

We forget that the heart is also an organ of perception.

The mind loves to divide and categorize, to classify, stratify and judge, but the heart  is about unification. A heart-centered stance is central to the cosmology of cultures who live in communion with nature, and is integral to the gifts of shamanism, for example.*  The heart can open the way for us to recognize ourselves in the world around us. The space of the heart is the space of one, where all is connected, all is communicating, all is present.

 

Is there a tear in the fabric of duality?
                   The ears of a deer full with windsong

Question Michelle Tennison,  Answer Dietmar Tauchner  (2017)

 

*The Heart as an Organ of Perception, by Stephen Harrod Buhner, in the March/April 2006 issue of Spirituality and Health. You can read it the whole article here:

http://www.wakeupanddream.me/2006/12/heart-as-organ-of-perception-tied-to.html