For self at workplace, use your Head, as you Engage with others use your Heart

For self at workplace, use your Head, as you Engage with others use your Heart

There is the head and there is the heart. But truly, besides the two there is the being.

Head is logical. It makes assumptions, comparisons, observations, and inferences and arrives at inferences and conclusions. The heart is feelings, emotions, and sensitivities. Strengthening the head, grows one’s intellect, strengthening the heart grows one trust. Head makes assumptions and is always questioning. Heart keeps on trusting. The head can never trust, and the heart can never doubt.


Beyond Head and Heart is pure intelligence of the being, where head and heart are integrated. For truly, both head and heart are but the gross and subtle forms of the body. In other words, there is no Body or mind – just bodymind.
Mind is both cognitive and affective: the duality of both head and heart co-exist.

Intelligence comes from awareness beyond heart and mind. Teaching comes from the head, learning comes from the heart. Head alone gives analysis, combining head and heart, insight. Deeper insight wisdom. From wisdom comes foresight. Just listening to head can make you cautious, worse still make you a coward. Follow your heart and it may lead you to courage, at its worst, to reckless impetuosity. It needs balance. 

At work, we need to use our head: be structured, methodical, planned, and logical in how we do things. Yet as we engage with others, we should learn to use our hearts even more: how do we connect beyond mind.

Said the Buddha in Heart Sutra:

HERE, O SARIPUTRA, FORM IS EMPTINESS AND THE VERY EMPTINESS IS FORM; EMPTINESS DOES NOT DIFFER FROM FORM, FORM DOES NOT DIFFER FROM EMPTINESS; WHATEVER IS FORM, THAT IS EMPTINESS, WHATEVER IS EMPTINESS, THAT IS FORM; THE SAME IS TRUE OF FEELINGS, PERCEPTIONS, IMPULSES, AND CONSCIOUSNESS. HERE, O SARIPUTRA, ALL DHARMAS ARE MARKED WITH EMPTINESS; THEY ARE NOT PRODUCED OR STOPPED, NOT DEFILED OR IMMACULATE, NOT DEFICIENT OR COMPLETE

Recognise that if you can move between Head and Heart, you are neither Head nor Heart. You are distinct from both. Relax, let go: remember to be one’s own witness.