Earth Said, "The Stone is My Heart."

A Story of Inter-Weaving Synchronicities through Art, Nature and Love

Listen to: DOWN THE WELL on Spotify or Apple, a podcast interview with Spring Cheng on THE RADIO.

A Response to a Call from the Naked Heart

Synchronicity is the language of the inter-connected, living world. When we step off the highway of the fast-speed, hyper-digital, hyper-transactional life, we will notice the choir of synchronicities sung by all beings. We may even join in. We may even hitch a ride on the hyper-digital internet highway to amplify the synchronous waves. Here is a story from my recent experience.

A month ago, I published a song and a short writing called Naked Heart. Naked Heart is a translation of a Chinese phrase 赤子之心. It means a level of authenticity and boldness that a small child has, free of any disguise, defense or pretense. It is where the original wisdom of the heart resides.

The day after that, I received a message from Randall, someone local who took a songwriting/song-catching workshop I held about a year ago. He has started a podcast called The Radio. With excitement, he told me that he had been immersed in the exploration of living from the heart. Intrigued by the song and the essay, he asked me if I wanted to be a guest to his podcast.

I agreed.

A week later, Randall came and we had a heart-felt conversation around what it means to live from the heart in the modern world and what the wisdom of the Tao may offer. You may listen to this interview on Spotify or Apple.

Some highlights:

• Taking in the world through the heart, with its darkness and glory, grief and joy

• Cultivating a collective container to process our deepest feelings in community through embodiment

• Receiving and listening to each other

• Recognizing heart, both as a physical organ and a psychological faculty, as a “master information synthesizer”

• Each human is a living tree, exchanging information with the world at a level beyond what can be extracted as digital information

• Song-catching as a new “technology” to build the resilience, strength and volume of the heart

• Honoring songs as beings that want to be living through us, nourishing us or helping us to shed and transform

A “Thank You” Note from the Earth

That afternoon after Randall left, my partner Joe and I decided to finish a yard project. We were making a mandala stone sculpture to honor our connection with the land that we called home as well as our connection with Kairo, our beloved puppy who passed away eight months ago. We were at the last stage of the project — we just needed to pick some nice stones to put at the center of the sculpture.

Before we arrived at the rockery courtyard, my heart felt a surge of joyful currents. I told Joe, “I love to be around big rocks. They make my heart happy.”

There were dozens of huge bins of rock, all with various sizes, colors and shapes. We already knew which kind of rocks we would like. I walked towards the bin and randomly picked out a few without looking.

“Look at what’s in your hand.” Joe said to me.

I looked down. It’s a beautiful, heart-shaped rock. Beside it is another one in the shape of a cradle. Kairo, our puppy, had spent much of his life enjoying being cradled by Joe and me.

So these two rocks went home with us.

Inside the stone circle we made, when I placed the cradle back to back with the big heart stone, I thought to myself, “I needed something to put inside the cradle.”

Suddenly I felt something in my left hands. I looked down, it’s another smaller, rock in a heart shape. It felt as if it leapt into my hands when I was thinking those thoughts. So there it is, a baby heart, sleeping in the cradle, in the presence of the big heart.

This is a day of the echoes of the heart. The frequency of heart, expressed through music, conversations, as well as stones resonated with each other into a beautiful choir.

Life is a constant stream of resonance, harmony and reciprocity. When our heart is closed, we become deaf to it. When we are open to the stream of resonance, we know we belong to a larger sphere of life. I give thanks to all who joined in this resonance — A Chinese woman living in Amsterdam who shared her story which led to the song of Naked Heart, Randall the podcast host, the Spirit or Kairo, and the Spirit of Earth and Rock.

This resonance is what I turn to for insights, hope and guidance living through the chaos, violence and uncertainty of the world. This ever present resonance speaks through stones, songs, patterns of clouds, trickling streams, as well as heart-warming conversations and exchanges between friends, community and family. I trust that it contains powers our ancestors always knew. And it contains powers that connects us to the future generations who will inhabit the Earth we will leave behind. This is the lifeline I hold onto to at a time like this when the Old World we know of is dying and a new world of the unknown is being born.

Do you have a response to this post? Do you have a similar story? Please feel free to post them here. Let’s continue the echoes of the heart!

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