Love, Emptiness and Energy
Excerpt from Doing Nothing
Love, Emptiness and Energy
We often feel that we are not loved enough. This is a reflection of the fact that we do not love, that we cannot find our capacity to love.
Love is not something that we do to one another. There is no object in Lees verder
Excerpt from Doing Nothing
Love, Emptiness and Energy
We often feel that we are not loved enough. This is a reflection of the fact that we do not love, that we cannot find our capacity to love.
Love is not something that we do to one another. There is no object in love and no subject.
Love is what is present when there is no object-subject, when there are not two.
This feeling of not being loved is in fact the need for love, the need for a cessation of the divided world in which our egos exist.
This cessation does not come about through someone loving us.
It does not come about by us loving another.
Love is not causal. It cannot be created, it cannot be practiced, it cannot be taught.
We can deeply inspect what we are, and in that we can see the structure of division which is inherent to thought, memory and ego. We can cease. We can be still.
Love, which is the very energy and expression of life, is whole. Thought cannot approach this energy. Words cannot capture it.
This energy of wholeness cannot be used, or divided, or squandered.
It is us all, and all of us.
This is not the answer to our question, it is the question fallen silent.
Having seen the nature of our thought and ego, we may pass through this gateway into silence.
We have left a world of fragments, and entered into something which is whole, but is empty. If there is no namer, then there are no names. If there is no subject, there is no object. This is emptiness.
There is tremendous energy here because there is nothing to dissipate it. There is great creativity, because there is nothing to restrict it.
Though the psychological self, the ego-center has gone silent, there is nothing lost. Out of this vast expansion of quiet, the energy of life expresses.
The nature of this energy, because it is beyond cause and effect, is unknown. It cannot be contained by concept, or manipulated by thought or used in any way.
We are not the experiencers or explorers of this energy. We are this energy: expressing, exploring, manifesting and disintegrating.
Steven Harrison (met dank aan DaginDaguit voor de tip ;-)
