Emptiness

  In this torn desert world there is no love because pleasure and desire play the greatest roles, yet without love your daily life has no meaning. And you cannot have love if there is no beauty. Beauty is not something you see - not a beautiful tree, a beautiful picture, a beautiful building or a beautiful woman. There is beauty only when your heart and mind know what love is. Without love and that sense of beauty there is no virtue, and you know very well that, do what you will, improve society, feed the poor, you will only be creating more mischief, for without love there is only ugliness and poverty in your own heart and mind. But when there is love and beauty, whatever you do is right, whatever you do is in order.  http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/love.html ove is something that is new, fresh, alive. It has no yesterday and  no tomorrow. It is beyond the turmoil of thought. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in...

 Because this is very important to understand whether time, not chronological time, but psychological time, can that come to an end ?  Or must there be always till I die this movement of I will be, I must not be, I should be, I shall not be regret, remembrance - you follow ? the whole psychological activity in which time is involved.  That is, can time come to an end? ... So therefore we must understand the nature of time. That is, psychologically, inwardly we are caught in a network of time.  I am going to die, I am afraid and I remember the happy things or painful things. And the brain is functioning, living in time. Right? You can see this yourself. This is an obvious fact. ... So part of meditation is to find out for oneself whether time can stop. Not - you can't do this saying, 'Time must stop' it has no meaning. But to understand the whole structure and the nature and the depth of this question. Right? That means: is it possible for the brain to realize that it...

  Clarity can exist only when there is freedom to observe, when one is capable of looking, observing, watching. That is only possible when there is complete, total freedom, otherwise there is always distortion in our observation.  I think that is fairly simple: simple in words but, in action, it becomes terribly difficult.  So, is it possible to be free of all the distorting factors in our outlook? When you observe yourself or another, society, the politicians, the environment, the whole cultural, religious movement that is going on in the world - so-called religious movement - can you observe without any prejudice, without taking any sides, without projecting our own personal conclusions, your beliefs, your dogmas, your experience and knowledge,  and therefore, be totally free of all that, to observe clearly ? That is one problem / That is the second problem. The third problem is compassion. The word is not the thing.  One may describe what is compassion in a m...