Everyone agrees with me that it requires opening both the mind and the heart to realize a full awareness. Which one is more difficult? I've been thinking it's the heart but why?
The heart work is 24/7. It's a way, not a method and there is no technique. Much easier to sit in the snow and meditate or chant the Heart Sutra 100 times. Its even easier to study the 12 links of dependent causation, and contemplate the emptiness of things. I can assure by direct experience it's easier to fast or do a 6 hour mountain walk than contemplate on infinity. Fortunately for me, that's not true anymore, as I don't care for cold water.
The desire for awakening coming FROM the heart can be 24/7 yes, even during dreams. Being mindful to always feel compassion is the same. Succeeding in empty awareness by meditating and contemplating, without doing this heart work, is a trap.
Can we focus on the heart work and speed it up? I can bring it up to the highest level of my conscious awareness but that is not a focus, it feels more like an entrance into it, for it is greater than I.
In a way that creates a frustration for us because there isnt a task to perform, a lesson to study, or a thought to construct. We can't really even understand it. These words are futile...it simply must BE happening in the present moment, directly and personally, and maybe even very painfully.
Don't desire for the desirelssness, don't remain aware of it 24/7, and dont keep it in the forefront of awareness, then we won't awaken fully and all the mind work will result in a hollow experience of emptiness. Awakening without the heart is indeed, empty! With the heart it is full, and that is when we realize that nothing is or ever was missing.
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