BIG MIND-BIG HEART
Gosh! It’s the Holiday Season and what could be more important during these troubling, chaotic, evolving, and divided times than awareness and care. Simply Big Mind, Big Heart, and expression of integral ethics.
From Integral Life Practice: A 21st Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening (Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard & Marco Morelli, 2008, Boulder, Colorado: Integral Books, page 272):
Awareness and Care
Awareness and care are two of the primary themes of Integral Life Practice. Awareness expresses Big Mind while care expresses Big Heart.
Integral Ethics
- Involves sincerely bringing as much awareness and care as possible to the moment.
- Shows up as behaviors animated sincerely by our greatest available awareness and care.
- Serves to increase the awareness and care we and others will be able to bring to future moments.
Thus, ethics is not just the cultivation of care and compassion. It is also the cultivation of awareness. I can only care for what is in my awareness. If my care is sincere, it asks for continual expansion of my awareness.
New awareness expands my circle of care and compassion. Care demands new awareness. Awareness grows, care grows, awareness grows, care grows.
The Platinum Rule: “Treat others as they would like to be treated.” (259)
Enjoy the Holiday Season with Big Mind-Big Heart…simply embrace taking the perspective of another and act from that awareness. (259)
