| Everyone wants to love and give love but when | | | | you are aware of the Pure Being which is pure |
| one tries to love, it often falls short. I remember | | | | love. The master once gave me this great advice |
| one time the question was asked to my | | | | of how to remain in love and be together without |
| meditation master, "Why does familiarity breed | | | | conflict. |
| contempt?" It is often said that with the ones we | | | | He said to always focus on the love that united |
| love the most, such as your husband, wife, | | | | you and not on the minds and ideas that are |
| parents or children, you have less patience and | | | | different and changing. Two minds will never |
| you are not able to accept their habits and ways | | | | always think alike and you cannot and should not |
| as you might with someone you've met or even | | | | expect them to. |
| with a more casual friend. | | | | When you say you love someone you mean that |
| The question continued with, "Why is it that when | | | | you know them as your own Self. Purity of love |
| my wife slurps her coffee it bothers me and | | | | is the Self. Then the differences seem small in the |
| when others slurp their coffee it does not?" | | | | light of that love. |
| The answer was that it is because of lack of | | | | There is never conflict, hatred or worry in love. |
| intense love. He then gave himself as an | | | | Love is the purity itself and we are all made of |
| example-his students love him so intensely that | | | | that love. |
| they always want to be around him and are | | | | It is said " The ocean of love is where we all |
| never bothered by his habits. | | | | want to swim. As soon as you plunge into the |
| Then the question arises--what is intense love? | | | | ocean of bliss you become the recognizer of |
| And if you have it, how is it different from | | | | love--that is your true nature." |
| romantic or human love, which is changing? If you | | | | Live the life of Love-- and use this meditation |
| love the unchanging, the Knower, the Pure Being | | | | daily--Begin to breath deeply with your eyes |
| or Space, that you unfold in meditation, then you | | | | closed, ensuring to use equal counts of breaths. |
| will know true love which alone is the ocean of | | | | Allow the mind to bring in pictures of your loved |
| love that is everywhere. Then you can know this | | | | ones in the perfect setting and see them in their |
| intense love! | | | | perfection. Remember love is a very splendored |
| You are not focusing on the personality; rather | | | | thing! |