{"id":91281,"date":"2018-08-24T17:11:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=91281"},"modified":"2018-08-28T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T17:24:28","slug":"meditations-of-the-loving-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/91281-meditations-of-the-loving-heart","title":{"rendered":"Meditations of the Loving Heart"},"content":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \n

This article is transcribed from a conversation with David Whitaker on August 15th, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

\n
\n

I remember how attuned I was to these words. And how much joy and alignment I felt doing these meditations. It was as if it was effortless.
\n– Leigh Taylor-Young<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My initial sharing is, I recorded Meditations of the Loving Heart<\/a> in 1979 and we\u2019re now in 2018 and that\u2019s a significant period of time for memory.<\/p>\n

I had a wonderful time exploring the creation of this. The two people who came to my spirit to plug into about it were Phil Danza and Pauli Sanderson. Pauli would, not always, but sometimes be involved in writing discourses and meditations and all kinds of things. And Phil was, as he is today, the key guy when it came to recording.<\/p>\n

So I first talked to Pauli and said, \u201cMy memory of these two meditations was writing it and getting feedback from J-R and it came together really quickly. I want to make sure to ask you whether you were involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

And she said, \u201cno.\u201d So that took care of that right there.<\/p>\n

And I then called Phil and we had a delightful conversation and a lot of laughter about memory. I did four different meditation recordings for J-R and I\u2019m pretty sure that two of the four were done at Mandeville in the basement.<\/p>\n

And I said, \u201cWhat is your memory of that Phil?\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cyes, I\u2019m pretty sure that we did Meditations of the Loving Heart in the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was describing the basement and he said, \u201cguess who else was in the room?\u201d<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cwho?<\/p>\n

And he said, \u201cMe!\u201d<\/p>\n

And I said, \u201coh gosh! I\u2019m feeling even better now.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we were describing the room and enjoying the memory of how heavenly it was to record at Mandeville. It was in the basement and we\u2019re looking at 1979. To say that it was rough was kind of an understatement but they had padded the room for sound beautifully. Edgar would often use it for recordings and Phil, and I don\u2019t remember whether Edgar was there when we recorded Meditations of the Loving Heart. He might have been because he was so involved with producing the media back then. I truly don\u2019t remember, but it seems like the fragrance of his being is present in this as a producer because he would produce these things and Phil would sound tech them.<\/p>\n

I remember J-R coming into the basement during the recording and I was disconcerted because when I work in film I am extremely focused. I learned it and was trained in it by the nature of my business which requires enormous focus to the degree that you might have to memorize thirty pages of dialogue off the page between 8 o\u2019clock at night and 8 o\u2019clock the next morning.<\/p>\n

So I had acquired a great facility for focus and had a good handle on it except J-R walked into the room. I had enough discipline to hold to it knowing that it was a blessing. No exchange. No words because I was in the middle of the recording. I think it was at a pause and he just walked out and we kept working, we kept doing this meditation. What we can\u2019t even imagine or see or know was how things would change when J-R would come into a room. He would stand there, do whatever it was on whatever levels he would do it and then leave the room and it would be like the world was different.<\/p>\n

I think that the first recording I did for J-R was for the People Center that he would talk about in the \u201870s. The big focus of our collective agenda was that we wanted a place where we could gather and be together, which of course today we could consider as 2101 [Wilshire] and surely we have it at Prana [PAL&G] today. Windermere was also a part of this.<\/p>\n

At the time, Prana was already present, and J-R wanted to record a programming for a beautiful people center. It\u2019s quite archival. I don\u2019t think that this recording ever made it out of cassette form. I have a cassette here but I don\u2019t think it ever went to CD.<\/p>\n

But Meditations of the Loving Heart did, and that\u2019s why I think this was the second recording I did. I remember how attuned I was to the words. And how much joy and alignment I felt doing these meditations. It was as if it was effortless.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever had this in your life where you ask, \u201cWhere\u2019s my place? What is my skill? What is my contribution?\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with a very rich career, I never seemed to lose that uncertainty of my place; of not quite knowing a sense of place. I remember as I was recording those meditations, having this profound sense of my place, of my alignment, of something so natural and attuned in its creative flow that it was like being in my place. That was the experience I very much have in my memory.<\/p>\n

I asked John this morning if it was clear to share this and he said, \u201cyes.\u201d After I recorded Meditations of the Loving Heart, J-R said that the Holy Spirit had placed a blessing with my voice that would extend to others when I would do things of this nature or public speaking.<\/p>\n

When J-R told me that, it matched the experience that I was having when I was doing the recordings and when I was writing. To the best I remember on this particular recording, I would write, run it by J-R and then J-R would send it back and I wouldn\u2019t meet or talk to him about it, it would just go that way and happen very fast.<\/p>\n

We all have experiences of how J-R could be very matter of fact or perfunctory and yet maybe what he had just said rocked your whole world. Yet it was sort of like, \u201cpass the salt,\u201d and you\u2019re kind of going \u201coooh!\u201d It was so inspiring.<\/p>\n

It matched up with my love of doing meditations and closed eye processes because I feel so deeply the presence, I think we all do, that I can actually speak it in an alignment, like when I do an ordination it\u2019s that experience. It\u2019s a sense of profound place. When I do an ordination, there\u2019s nothing I would rather do than to be in that kind of attunement with Spirit so that the vehicle of my voice and my being is dancing with Spirit in a oneness in service to another.<\/p>\n

I did another meditation called the Spirit of Peace, in the early \u201890s. I\u2019m going to address it because it\u2019s kind of part of the story. I was having lunch with J-R and I had just taken a job being a Goodwill Ambassador at the UN for the environment, it\u2019s called the United Nations Environment Program.<\/p>\n

John-Roger and I were sharing about it and I said, \u201cJ-R, I want to produce an event in the general assembly for peace and I want to write a meditation,\u201d I was sharing my dream, \u201cand I want to do it for every head of every agency for the United Nations. Every part of the United Nations. All aspects of it. And I would like to work with the Society of Prayer for World Peace.\u201d I told him this whole scenario. He looked up as he would do and then he looked at me and said, \u201cyes, it looks like you could do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The meditation just flowed. I went to my boss at the UN and said, \u201cI want to do this, what do you feel? I\u2019d like to go to MSIA and have them co-produce it.\u201d Everything happened. MSIA co-produced this event in the general assembly. I wrote it based on an earlier meditation, and MSIA then produced it. John Morton heard it and came on board and said, \u201cI would like to do the other side of it,\u201d This is in 1989. There\u2019s a picture on that CD that\u2019s adorable. It\u2019s John and me, young. Not together, but on the same tape. The Society of Prayer came forward, they did their flag ceremony. The environmental organ of the UN co-produced and it was a magnificent event.<\/p>\n

When I recorded the Spirit of Peace it was that same experience of alignment. It\u2019s a tape that I highly recommend for children because it\u2019s a visualization, almost in a childlike way of healing the planet. I just love doing this work. I love doing the planetary meditations. I love creating closed eye processes. I\u2019m writing one now, a children\u2019s meditation.<\/p>\n

And back to Meditations of a Loving Heart. I had not listened to it in many years. I found it going through my CDs and I took it to John about six months ago. And I said, \u201cI\u2019d love it if you\u2019d listen to this, I just listened to it and I\u2019m kind of amazed how much it moved me.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he listened to it and he said, \u201cWell where has this been? I don\u2019t ever remember this!\u201d<\/p>\n

And I said, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know,\u201d So I called the products [department] and they had two on hand.<\/p>\n

So then John, in his inimitable brilliant fashion that sets things in motion, said, \u201cI want to play this at the ministers meeting [in LA].\u201d<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s the tale. I feel it\u2019s a ministry that I adore and am grateful for. Any time someone asks us and we can do it, it\u2019s a joy to say \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the playfulness of this, it\u2019s the \u201cyes place!\u201d I love saying \u201cYes!\u201d I was saying this to Sherie [Wylie] today that I love her nature because I saw a reflection of my own. She\u2019s a \u201cyes person.\u201d When John and I first began working together, he would ask me:<\/p>\n

\u201cWould you do this?\u201d<\/p>\n

And I\u2019d say, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know how to do it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I can learn\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s been my MO, \u201cOK, I\u2019ll do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It goes back to that thing that J-R and John share with us so much which is \u201cthe ability to do is the willingness to do.\u201d And most of my life has been lead by willingness and the ability comes.<\/p>\n

When I heard the meditation for the first time in years, I was taken by how relevant it is to our times now. And how, in retrospect, it addresses the enturbulation of our times now and gives a way of addressing it spiritually in the guidedness of the meditation. I remember back in the \u201870s when J-R said that these times would be coming. And what could be shook will be shook and to stay anchored in Source, weathering storms so that we stay standing because our foundation in the Spirit is so strong.<\/p>\n

More and more, in my experience, I feel the incredible closeness with our family and the joy and gratitude for us and also the gratitude for showing up no matter what. I was deeply touched at Conference when John addressed Craig Rand — who is physically challenged but he did everything in his power to get to that ministers meeting. J-R used to say, no matter what it takes, sick bed in hand, show up to be together. I get the power of this, in that together we create a transformational vortex.<\/p>\n

When I look at Transcendent Leadership. It\u2019s a pilot program in a sense, but the anchoring of it is promising to create a very special place for others to come in, in due time, demonstrating that we are good followers of the Lord and good disseminators of the Teachings.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Hear the heavenly voice of Leigh Taylor-Young in Meditations of the Loving Heart<\/a>. Available for purchase in the MSIA Store >> Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article is transcribed from a conversation with David Whitaker on August 15th, 2018 I remember how attuned I was to these words. And how much joy and alignment I felt doing these meditations. It was as if it was effortless. – Leigh Taylor-Young My initial sharing is, I recorded Meditations of the Loving Heart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":91283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,257],"tags":[3466,504,155,4595,102],"class_list":["post-91281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ndh-archives","tag-interviews","tag-leigh-taylor-young","tag-love","tag-meditations-of-the-loving-heart","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}