I love fishes a lot as a tasty dinner object. But could I love fishes more as another organism and aspect of life? Maybe. The last paragraph of Tsem Tulku Rinpoche’s blog post kinda poked me in this next step towards vegetarianism: Please go vegetarian. So much food is available without slaughter of animals for …
This post has been sitting around for several weeks. I’m still not sure it says what I mean, but I suppose it expresses my perplexity well enough now that other people could share it. I feel like the world needs a better way to think and talk about love – well, all love, but here …
Convention holds that love bears some kind of metaphorical resemblance to falling: out of control, maybe, or crushing, sinking, something like that. I’ve gone a long time thinking I maybe had a part missing or broken, because I’ve never experienced anything like falling when it comes to another person. People close to me talk about …
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover? And when you are the Lover at last, you don’t care. Whatever you know, or don’t – only Love is real. – Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) I’ve subscribed to this year-long Rumi-a-day …
I appear to have left myself a reminder – in the form of a saved draft with nothing but this title – last month to write this post. That was around the time I had the startling revelation that the things I did, consciously or automatically (I think the automatic things are most effective) were …