What is love? It's an interesting question.
When we love someone or something, we may do things out of love. Perhaps share tender words or perform compassionate deeds. But love, itself, doesn't do the doing. Love simply is.
What does that mean, is? The sky is ... blue. The earth is ... round.
We expect qualifiers on beingness. It's hard for us to grasp essence without attribute. Love is ... and then we must provide adjectified add-ons. Kind, gentle, forgiving, and so on.
Is-ness feels too abstract. We can't describe it.
And that's precisely why we take an infinitely expansive concept and reduce it to something definitive. A dualistic framework of subject and object. I as the subject, and our beloved the object of affection.
This presents quite a challenge studying non-dual thought systems. Attempting to comprehend concepts that have no attributes. Like oneness. Like love.
Yet we need not cultivate rational understanding in order to experience the depth of peace toward which this abstraction points.
Shifting attention from the concrete realm of classification to the ubiquitous presence of pure awareness results in the most glorious sense of serenity. For we've stepped into the right-minded realization that while love isn't any-thing, it is most definitely everything.
Join me in Thursday's class where we'll explore the concept of perfect love, and lessons it can teach us for transcending suffering. I look forward to seeing you then.