Re: Love versus Attachment

it is true... falling in love...is falling from the head to the heart...when it first happens... it is falling out of thoughts... into no thoughts... into feeling...
the dimension of thinking and and the dimension of 'being' run askew to each other... they never really ever meet... when you are thinking... the self, the ego is present... it covers up 'being'...

it can happen when you don't expect it... when it is not an expectation of the mind... when you are 'taken away' by music... art... or the prescence of another human being... when suddenly the movement of the mind slows and comes to stop...there is no thinking... ego dissolves and the self exists not ...and 'being' arises... this small moment of the here-now, that exists between the two tenses of mind, the past and future, expands... one finds himself or herself as 'being' firmly within this present moment.

and it is truly an unforgetable moment. there are no words to describe it... this experience is wonderfully blissful and quite profound... that it seems divine...it is!
one can call it 'love'... the ultimate joy.... others call it samadhi... nirvana... but all these words fall short...
it is the experience of reality as it is... unbounded reality which is infinite...

to bring words to describe it... to wonder what has happened ...is to bring in the mind... when mind is functioning... it brings in its limitations... it imposes its limitations onto reality... in doing so, reality becomes something else...and for each mind, it is different... it becomes what Hindus call the world of maya... the false... the dream

mind is possible with only that which is known ...... and with this, expectations enter... out of habit, mind re-enters the scene... 'being' is covered over again... the experience of the falling-in-love becomes more a memory... love is displaced by attachment and expectation...of the mind. it happens very subtle... one has to be very attentive to notice this transition...

most do not understand the distinction... between love and attachment... love really cannot have an address... you can not say i love this person and not that person...mind can say this... but not love... love is not really a noun... it is a verb... language becomes a problem with this...
loving-ness flows... it flows out of an individual in all the directions... like a cup that is overflowing, it overflows in all the directions...
those that feel love flowing out of an individual become attacted to this...

it is quite possible for two individuals to keep love moving as a verb... to keep love an alive phenomena... to keep on 'loving'... it is all about seeing... being able to see... to see the infinite that is contained in the other... to see the profound depths that are there in the other.... in yourself... the mystery that is contained in yourself and in all the others around you... when you can see this... there is no possibility for boredom... love doesn't happen just one time... it is on-going and never ending... it continues flowing on and on and on...

boredom is a mind creation... lovingness is not possible through the mind... let go of the mind and lovingness is... godliness is... lovingness is godliness
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