To love, one must first forget all about love. Make it your aim and look for direction. As we are, we cannot possibly love. Gurdjieff (commas added for clarity by me:)
The roads I tread have been tread before. Fellow travelers leave their words for me.
It is nice to me to find clarity for what I meant when I talked about love a month or so ago. I could not articulate clearly why I felt incapable of love, but life keeps unfolding, reflecting back information to me for the questions I ask.
Learning to love is a bit like unlearning, for me, right now.
When I was identified with love by my mind’s definitions, I became incapable of being the love that I am.
Can I relate here the reflections that arise? Perhaps not, but experience feels like being explored with words this quiet morning:
I saw lights from an ambulance, a fire truck, and a police car all throbbing and reflecting on windows and water at the marina as I left yesterday. The mind would define this light show as an EMERGENCY. With my mellow mind in its quietude after walking the long distance on the docks in the foggy heat, my eyes see. Red. Blue. White. Flickering in a pattern. Without definition, without association. Something is happening; lights are pulsing, but eyes are seeing before any idea of suffering. These eyes see the emergency lights the same as these eyes see fog.
Of course, I know what these vehicles and lights can mean, but that idea is the same as all ideas, a rabbit hole. That which needs my attention will be made clear without my ideas about any thing.
Seeing can be separate from ideas.
I feel Love arises naturally in such a state, beyond my associations, beyond my ideas about any thing, beyond my DOing. In this field, love is unrestricted to bubble up without obligation or definition or shoulds. This bubble that arrives is larger than my small being, and it travels through the vehicle of this body separate from my thoughts. I think it bursts above my head and floods me a bit like this:
At 5:20 minute (but all is speaking today):
Life as Improv 