{"id":1698,"date":"2010-05-25T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linaru.com\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:04:39","slug":"free-to-be-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linaru.com\/en\/free-to-be-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Free to be Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid kcm\">\n<div class=\"grid__item one-whole portable--auto lap--auto palm--auto\">\n<pre>Love within concepts \r\n\t\t\tis bounded \t\r\n\tto your ability to reason.\r\n \r\nLove within contemplation \r\n\t\t\tgives birth \r\n\tto the limitless of our sight. \r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWe are neither here or there, \r\n\t\t\t\tbut everywhere \r\n\t\t\tif we have the love to observe \r\nwhat is not as clear to our senses \r\n\t\t\tas it is to our minds \r\n\t\t\tafter having cleansed ourselves \r\nfrom the ties concepts elaborate. \r\n\r\n\t\tIf you are happy, \r\ncan a dictionary \r\n\t\tgive you \r\n\tits essential meaning?\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIt can point to a direction, \r\n\t\t\t\tbut your experience \r\n\t\t\tis now the one in charge \r\nof making you recognize \r\n\t\t\thappiness in yourself, \r\n\t\t\tnot in the past, \r\nbut by feeling happy \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonce and again. \r\n\r\nLove as happiness \r\n\t\t\tis limited by the boundaries \r\nof our thoughts,\r\n\t\t\tunless we are being loving, \r\nso then, instead of having \r\n\t\t\t\t\tour thoughts ruling, \r\n\t\tthere is awareness,\r\n\t\t\t\twhich is truth \r\nfor each instant \r\n\t\t\tof our lives. \r\n\r\nThoughts are illusions of the mind \r\n\t\t\tthat produce action that transcends \r\n\t\tthe boundaries of our concepts \r\n\t\t\tbecause beyond our judgments \r\nthere is reality,\r\n\t\t one that hurts, \r\n\t\t\tone that has no suffering, \r\nboth, in love.\r\n\r\n\t\t\tOne is not exclusive of the other, \r\nand as much as we could desire \r\n\t\t\tto be free from pain, \r\n\tit is pain itself the one \r\n\t\tthat makes us understand peace, \r\nbut as much as we would desire \r\n\t\tfor pain to end, \r\n\tthere is no oasis, \r\n\t\t\t\t\tbut within ourselves: \r\n \t a fountain of light \r\n\t\t\t\tthat cures it all until \r\nthere is nothing more \r\n\t\t\t\tleft to be cured,\r\n\tso oasis exists. \r\n\r\nThis might seem a contradiction, \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tbut it is not.\r\n\r\nIt depends on the position \r\n\t\t\t\t\twhere you stand, \r\nthen it all fits in place, \r\n\t\t\tbut at the same time...\r\n \r\nIt is a contradiction \r\n\t\t\t\tpainted of \r\n\t\t\twhite over black, \r\n\t\t\tblack over white, \r\n\t\t\t\tuntil \r\n\t\t\t\t\twhite covers the black, \r\n\t\t\t\t\tblack covers the white, \r\n\t\t\t\t\tand makes it all gray. \r\n\r\nAs contradictory as it might seem to be free, \r\nonly when doing what is best for you and me, \r\n\t\t\t\t\twe reach a point of communion \r\nwhere if rational understanding can't yet see, \r\n\t\t\t\t\twe can't leave it to the unreal, \r\nit must be lived, experienced, \r\n\t\t\t\t\tand afterwards reasoned \r\nwithin the limits of concepts.\r\n \r\nLet concepts roam free as they once were \r\n\t\t\tbefore I had them limiting me \r\nby choosing \r\n\t\t\texperience over thought, \r\nfreedom over the idea of being free, \r\nhappiness over the fantasy of dictionaries, \r\n\t\t\tlove over the idea of \"me\"&#157;, \r\n\t\t\tin circles, \r\n\tonce and again,\r\n\t\t\t\t\tuntil love becomes it all, \r\npeace becomes real, \r\n\t\t\tthe truth \r\n\t\twithin each one of us.\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDon't cry if it seems untouchable, \r\nlive your tears by seeing others' pain, \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand in that suffering, start giving,\r\nuntil you lose yourself in others, \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand in such disappearance of yourself, \r\n\tthe real you, \t\r\n\t\t\tthe one beyond your thoughts \r\nwill appear \r\n\t\t\tfree to be you, \r\n\tlove. \r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love within concepts is bounded to your ability to reason. 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