Al-Duballahi min ash-shaytan al-rajim.
Bismillah al-rahman al-rahim in the name of the One Most Compassionate,
Most Merciful,
Most Kind.
This is Mark Silver with Heart of Business.
Welcome to the Monday Remembrance.
Sometimes you just get so tired,
I know I get so tired of just listening to my mind go on and on and on trying to figure things out.
Just feels like blah blah blah blah blah blah.
I just get bored of myself.
And yet that's where so much comes.
That's where our attention keeps getting pulled back to.
It's back to the mind.
Blah blah blah.
Yeah.
Allah.
Right?
So let's just take a moment to just notice how you're feeling.
To notice where your thoughts are.
To notice what's true.
And notice all the different decisions and challenges that you're trying to work your way through.
The ones that you don't yet have answers for.
And how your mind comes up with answers but just doubts them.
It jumps back and forth.
Will this work?
Will this work?
Or is this what I need?
Blah blah blah.
And yet we don't want to be negative or insulting to our mind.
Our mind is an incredible gift.
Our intelligence is an incredible gift.
It can do so much in terms of comparing and contrasting and processing and coming up with ideas,
Looking at things.
It's just not where we want to make decisions from.
The mind can present options and then the heart can make the choices.
When we understand the role of the mind our struggles can become so much easier.
So just taking a moment now and just noticing the options,
The ideas,
The pathways,
The signposts that the mind comes up with,
Creates,
Points out,
Identifies.
Just letting go of the need to decide.
Letting go of the mind's attempts to figure it out.
Look at this incredible buffet.
This assortment,
This cornucopia,
This abundance of options and ideas and choices and paths that the mind can identify.
What if you were to just sit back,
Lean way back instead of leaning forward,
Instead of grasping and reaching and trying to make happen.
What if you could just sit back in your hips and your shoulders and in your heart and just survey,
Just look out over,
Just take in all that's been spread in front of you.
Like a holiday meal where so many people have brought so many different dishes and you can't possibly eat them all.
And then bringing in the remembrance.
Still not trying to decide,
Still resisting the urge to figure it out or solve it even with your heart.
And just letting all of those options just sit there for a moment.
Not trying to hold on to them or remember them all.
Some of them may fade and they must not have been that important or enticing.
Just bringing your attention inward to your heart,
Letting your head bow,
Letting your heart bow.
Letting yourself begin to call the name of the divine through the open doorway of your heart.
Ummah.
Letting yourself to face the source of love completely,
Without burden,
Without reaching.
Letting yourself rest into the arms of the divine,
The arms of the beloved.
Ummah.
Just noticing what you notice,
How that feels.
Just asking for the divine quality of wisdom.
Al-Hakeem.
Ya Allah Ya Hakeem.
And divine knowledge which is different than mental grasping.
Ya Alim.
Ya Allah Ya Alim.
And perhaps quality of guidance,
The guide.
Ya Rashid.
Ya Allah Ya Rashid.
Just letting your heart drink in through the thirst that it has.
Letting the thirst that your heart has.
Pull in,
Drink in,
Take in,
Fill up with witness.
Immerse yourself in these qualities.
Hakeem.
Alim.
Rashid.
Ya Allah.
And now,
Unlaw,
Just continuing to call the name of the Divine through the open doorway of your heart,
Remembering the presence of the Divine.
The all-encompassing oneness and source from which we all come from and which we all return to and from which nothing is separate.
And then slowly,
Gently allowing your heart to turn like a spotlight,
Like a lamp,
Like a sun,
A star,
To turn and shine upon all of the options that the mind had spread in front of you.
Again,
Just sitting back,
Not reaching,
Not asking,
Just letting the heart gaze upon,
Witness,
Be in the presence of,
And just notice what you notice.
Notice what your heart notices as it's with those options.
Unlaw.
And just continuing to call the name of the divine to the open doorway of your heart.
Ya Allah,
Ya Hakim,
Ya Allah,
Ya Alim,
Ya Allah,
Ya Rashid.
I'm just noticing what you notice.
Noticing what you notice about the options.
Noticing some of them may fade,
Some of them may seem brighter.
And this may be too short a time to really land on what it is that your heart is telling you about these options,
But just noticing what it's like to be in a different relationship with the choices in front of you.
Just letting yourself express authentic gratitude for anything that you've experienced during this time.
Knowing that if you need more time that you can take it.
And if you do have more time now feeling free to stay in remembrance,
And if now is the time to return your attention back to your day,
Taking a nice gentle breath and bringing your attention back.
Peace and love.
