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July 03, 2006
Not Instant Coffee
Love is not a thing you can do. But when you do other things, love will happen.
There are small things you can do--sitting together, looking at the moon, listening to music--nothing directly to do with love. Love is very delicate, fragile. If you look at it, gaze at it directly, it will disappear. It comes only when you are unaware, doing something else. You cannot go directly, arrowlike. Love is not a target. It is a very subtle phenomenon; it is very shy. If you go directly, it will hide. If you do something directly, you'll miss it.
The world has become very stupid about love. They want it immediately. They want it like instant coffee--whenever you want it, order it, and it is there.
Love is a delicate art; it is nothing you can do. Sometimes those rare blissful moments come... then something of the unknown descends. You are no longer on the earth; you are in paradise. Reading a book with your lover, both deeply absorbed in it, suddenly you find that a different quality of being has arisen around you both. Something surrounds you both like an aura, and everything is peaceful. But you were not doing anything directly. You were just reading a book, or just going for a long walk, hand-in-hand against the strong wind--and suddenly it was there. It always takes you unaware.
Text: Osho
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Somehow this reminded me of that song Lookin' For Love by Waylon Jennings. heh! I've always told myself that I can look, by not looking, whatever that is... And also certain things that I can do, by not doing, whatever they may be... Forget the notion about 'finding that special someone', I believe that if one keeps doing the things he/she genuinely loves, in time, everything will happen in its own accord. But hey, that's just me.
Current Music: Altered Images - I Could Be Happy [Extended]
Posted by Robert at July 3, 2006 08:25 AM
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I've always held to the fact that if you search and search for something, you won't find it. If you allow yourself to concentrate on other things, what you are looking for will find you.
Posted by: Greg at July 3, 2006 10:05 AM
Rip out my heart and serve it on a platter, will ya? JK... And yeah, it's hard to grab onto love and keep it. And with this whole notion, this idea of Love also goes another way... Since love is so fragile, once you grasp it, it crumbles... If you look at it directly, it blows away like the wind. And once you realize it's right next to you, it's gone. So there's no real way of winning cuz once you're happy to have it, you're left empty and alone.
God, I'm tragic.
Posted by: Mr. Secret at July 3, 2006 12:58 PM
"It comes only when you are unaware, doing something else."
I haven't looked for love in the last three years and I still here alone. They say love comes when you least expect it but I am starting to doubt it. It's like anything else, things won't magically happen if you just sit around and wish upon a star. I believe you have to be proactive sometimes a little aggresive and go out and get what you want.
But who knows. I feel a little tragic just like Mr. Secret.
Posted by: Cesar at July 3, 2006 03:34 PM
You know that saying "Life happens!" Why can't love? :-)
Posted by: Robert at July 3, 2006 07:28 PM
Happy 4th July sweet man.
Posted by: homer at July 3, 2006 09:22 PM
"Lookin' for love in all the wrong places; lookin' for love in too many faces, searchin' for signs, searchin' for traces of what I'm lookin' for." Wasn't that Johnny Lee from the "Urban Cowboy" soundtrack?
It sounds like a cliche, but you really have to get it goin' on with yourself before you can love someone else. Someone once told me that you can love people freely that you're not attracted to until they decide they are attracted to you. I can see the truth in that, but it's a very small perspective.
We live in an instant now society with people jumping up and down in front of microwaves, screaming, "HURRY!" Many beginning their journey toward future relationships with masturbation, which is pretty instant gratification for a 13-year-old boy, but also Pavlovs us into thinking that sex/lust/desire is love, which it is not. Sex is typically loud and gaudy like Star Jones Reynolds, while love is the soft whisper of Mia Farrow caring for a malnourished child on an UNICEF commercial.
By the way, I love "I Could Be Happy."
Posted by: Jef at July 3, 2006 10:10 PM
Yea, sometimes it's best to not actively search for love. It usually would find you when you're not looking for it.
Ya know what's funny? Well other reason I wanted to be back stateside was so it'll be easier to meet guys, but now that I'm here, I haven't even bothered much. In Japan, I met up with a new guy every week at one point. Who knows, one of them might have blossomed into something.
Like Cesar said though, sometimes we can't just sit around and expecting something out of it. You gotta cause a ripple sometimes to get things in motion.
Have a great week!
Mann, you got me thinking again grrrrrr.
Why does the US have to be so big? All these lonely and beautiful people..*sigh
Posted by: Kris at July 3, 2006 11:03 PM
One has to be open to the idea of 'being with someone' in order to have an[y] intimate relationship to flourish. You're right Kris, it's the 'ripple' that sets things in motion, but I believe it's the ripple that comes from the inside, not out.
Yay Jef, that's the song I was thinking of. I didn't know who that particular version/artist was so I just randomly Googled it - hense Waylon Jennings! haha. Thanks for the info.
Happy 4th!!
Posted by: Robert at July 4, 2006 12:24 PM
Love is like sunshine... you don't really see it until it shines on something.
Posted by: Gurustu at July 4, 2006 10:57 PM
I believe in love. It is like the Parsi reading I was doing that says: Faith is belief in the unknown and belief is the faith of that which is known.
Posted by: lana at July 5, 2006 01:50 AM
I couldn't agree more Robert. Hope you had a good day yesterday. Canada Day here was pretty uneventful but very nice...
Posted by: lola at July 5, 2006 01:01 PM
Happy belated Independence Day, Robert! =)
Posted by: mike.w at July 5, 2006 05:47 PM