301. Love is not a thought. It is not an idea. As the idea of a night sky is not the night sky, so too love has nothing to do with any idea. That means every mental image, memory, and idea you ever had about what is love, is not it. Everything that you ever thought was love, is not it. An idea is memory, and memory is splintered and fragmented. Love is not fragmented. Internalize this amazing fact, discard all of that which is fragmented, and that which is unfragmented and therefore whole, reveals itself. That which is whole, full, and complete, supersedes all that is fragmented, and therefore everything that involves memory. It is greater that the whole of human knowledge. It is vastly superior to all the arts, sciences, and literature throughout human history. It is higher than any form of earthly beauty, joy, and happiness. It is beyond everything that is earthly. Love is not of this world. It is an unearthly thing.
302. To be tied down or attached to a thought or mental image means to be anchored deep down inside. It means to be internally weighted down, strained, and burdened. To be mentally attached is not only a burden, but it denies freedom. Attachment means separation between you and the image of attachment. It means division between the thinker and thought. Division is conflict. The end of attachment ends the division. It ends the separation within. The end of separation means an end to every conflict that exists in the brain, which includes frustration, anger, stress, depression, loneliness, and every other inner strain and burden. When attachment ends the mind is free of all that. It is free. The mind comes upon freedom, and in that freedom there is unspeakable joy. It is a joy that goes beyond mere feelings of cheer or gladness. It is a joy totally beyond all that, which means it is a contentment that stands alone, and cannot be influenced or touched. It is an untouchable thing.
303. The giant tree stood steady in the cool morning breeze. The great branches lightly swayed back and forth and the lush green leaves danced about, happy, waving. The gigantic sky was covered with blankets of white and light and grey and dark clouds. The street below was empty of cars and people. A lone black squirrel scurried about on the ground in search of food, vigilant, wary. The blue water below the sea wall stretched for miles. There were huge black and red oil tanker ships parked in the distance. The shallow waves gently splashed along the sandy beach. Above the beach there was a wide cement path with walkers, runners, and bikers. Next to the path above a raised wall was a large swimming pool. The pool was empty. The water in the pool appeared clean and still. When a pebble falls in water a ripple effect happens that effects the entire pool. A wave is created that moves outwardly, touching the surrounding water equally, without bias or prejudice. Love is like that. Love has no bias or prejudice. It touches, surrounds, and seeps into everyone it meets. To surround only people would imply limitation. Love has no limitation, which means it touches and penetrates not only people, but animals, plants, the earth, and stars.
304. Love does not depend on space or time. If two people love, then the relationship between them has a placeless, timeless quality about it, regardless of the distance between them. That means the relationship is inseparable, whole, and indescribably intimate. It is an intimacy that depends on nothing, which means it is indestructible, invulnerable, and therefore sacred.
305. There is something more to the emptiness that exists between thoughts. It goes further and deeper. There is a source to the emptiness. The source is alive, moving, and loving. Only in meditation can the brain come upon it. This is a meditation unlike any other. It purges the brain of every hint of hope, desire, and expectation for anything in return. It must be a living meditation that dies to the whole of human thought. The dying to thought means silence. It is in silence that the source of all that is comes out. Only then can the source, the divine, and sacred other, be invited. Only then can it show itself.
306. The ego is terribly cunning and manipulative. It is an extraordinarily subtle activity. There must be tremendous humility and sensitivity to expose it for what it is. The ego takes the form of thought, which is incomplete, partial, and therefore ignorant. Partiality implies ignorance. It is the same. What happens to the ego, and the whole movement of ignorance, when the body dies? Does ignorance end? Only intelligence can end ignorance. If the death of the body ends ignorance then physical death and intelligence must be the same. However, that is obviously not the case. Intelligence is independent of the body. Intelligence depends on nothing. Therefore, if the body dies, and the ego is present in the brain, then ignorance must persist. It must continue. That means physical death does nothing to end the ego, and bring a stop to ignorance, with all the misery and sorrow that goes with it. Therefore physical life holds the opportunity to end ignorance, and thereby halt the stream of sorrow that has been going on and on and on. Life presents a chance to step out of that stream. It makes possible for intelligence to manifest. Intelligence is what wipes out ignorance. It absorbs it completely.
307. He was a soft spoken middle aged man, lived alone, and enjoyed to sit outside on his porch observing wildlife, people, the sky and stars. He observed how people lived in conflict, and questioned how to make choices in everyday living that did not contribute to the conflict and violence that exists in society. We talked how people identify with the labels of personal opinion and belief, and how this identification causes isolation, division, and therefore conflict. There was insight into the danger of identifying to labels, belief, and any form of thought. Thought creates a self, which means isolation, limitation, and therefore ignorance. There was insight that the self is the root cause of conflict, and as a result the cause of all sorrow and ignorance. The question arose if there is an action that is not divisive, which thereby ends conflict, and if it was possible for a common, ordinary person to come upon such an action. The only action that is non-divisive, undivided, and therefore whole and complete, is love. The beauty of love is it is not merely available for a select few. Love is not partial or bias, which means it is at hand for every human being to come upon. When one comes upon that love, there is no longer any question about how to make choices in life. Any choice that love makes is the right choice. Any action by love is the right action. Find out what it means to love, and all choices are clear. All actions are simple, and all questions are answered. Love does that. Love makes life clear and simple. It answers all questions.
308. Time is irrelevant and meaningless, because it denies love. Time has no relationship with love. They are two completely different worlds.
309. Most people do not seem to think very deeply about life. They may give a particular question or issue, as what is love, happiness, God, and so on, a little bit of thought, devote a few minutes to it, and then after not finding out anything they move on with their lives of ongoing struggle to achieve, become this or that, with all of the ambition, greed, jealousy, frustration, and pettiness that goes with it. They form conclusions about what they think is, or is not, the answer to such things and they meet life with those conclusions. The formation of a conclusion becomes a rigid belief, stiff opinion, or stale mental picture. As a result an identification to it is created, and a psychological attachment is formed. That attachment creates a separation between the image of attachment and you. It separates the thinker from thought. It is this inward separation and psychological state of dividedness, that causes conflict. It is conflict. Therefore, if one makes a conclusion about something, at the same time one must die to it. One must let it go. By letting it fall away no attachment is formed. When no attachment is made, then the mind is free. It is free to listen. It is free to observe without any preconceived ideas to interfere in the observation. Only when one is psychologically free, which means there is no form of mental attachment to any idea whatsoever, does the mind come upon a great reservoir of energy. It comes upon the energy necessary to examine questions and issues as never before, which means with great vitality, depth, and passion.
310. In every moment, within each and every passing second, there is the opportunity to come upon that which is timeless, unconditional, and therefore sacred.
311. Memory is measurable. It is restricted to the past and therefore time. When the body is very still, with no fidgeting, no squirming, but extraordinarily sensitive, and the brain is quiet with no movement of thought, no making images, and no playback of memory, then it comes upon a dimension to life that has no restrictions, no measure. It comes upon a dimension to existence, which is unrestricted, immeasurable, and therefore holy.
312. If you have a personal problem, regardless whether it is stress, depression, anger, fear, jealousy, or any other sort of psychological conflict, and you talk to someone about it, and that person approaches the problem in a partial manner, and not as a whole, then the problem must remain. Any partial approach to a problem fails to get to the root of the problem, which means there is no resolution at all. As a result the problem continues. It goes on. Unless the approach to resolve a problem is whole, total, holistic, then it has no real value. It has no value because the problem does not end. Many people are fooled into a false sense of security when they are given a method that they are told will help resolve a problem. Any method, regardless whether it involves reading a book, talking to another person, performing a system of meditation, or whatever, implies time. It does not matter if there is a promise, hope, or expectation that the problem will be resolved in the future. It still means time. If the solution means time, then the problem must remain. It is a tremendous insight to realize this fact. It means that to bring an end to a problem, whatever it may be, the approach must not involve time. As a result one can discard anything and everything that involves time. It takes time to read a book. Therefore all books are out. It takes time to go see a psychologist. Therefore all going to see psychologists have no meaning. All systems of meditation that have a goal imply time and therefore can be dropped. Everything involving thought, which includes hope, expectation, opinion, belief, and any form of mental projection, idea, or image, all implies time, and therefore cannot be used to resolve the problem. Memory implies the past and therefore time. That means the whole of human memory cannot be used to bring an end to your problem. If you see these things as facts, then there is freedom from all books, so-called experts, psychologists, systems of meditation, thought, and memory. There is freedom from all that. The mind is free from memory, which means it is free from time. The mind that is free from time comes upon that which is timeless. It comes upon what is love. Love is what ends problems completely, instantly. It is the only event that can wipe out all of the problems of anxiety, loneliness, fear, anger, jealousy, and all the rest of it directly, wholly, and perfectly. Love does that. It is the only thing that can.
313. People covet, embrace, and envelope memories and past experiences. As a result they live in mental isolation. It is mental isolation that denies relationship. Love can only be found in relationship. Love can only exist, or not, in the present. Memory is the past. That means memory denies love. Only when one learns what it means to bring an end to living in memory, which means the mental attachment to experience, education, upbringing, culture, and all the rest of it, can the isolation within end, and thereby allow love to start. The end of isolation is the start of love. They are the same.
314. In that state in which thought has come to an end, time stops. The whole mental movement of time has no meaning. What takes place is that everything happens at once. The whole of life moves at the same time. There are no separate yesterday's or projections of tomorrow. The whole of thought must be obliterated and completely let go to bring an end to living in time. When that happens, when it really takes place, not as an idea, but as an actuality, then that dimension of life in which time does not exist, comes out. That timeless, and therefore sacred other, reveals itself.
315. One cannot know what does not exist in memory. One can only know memory. One can only know ideas, mental pictures, and images that have been recorded from experience, and which as a result are all stored in memory. Psychologically memory is the past. That means one can only know the past. So regardless what experiences took place that have been recorded in memory, to embrace memory means to be stuck, bound, and attached to the past. Attachment to the past denies living in the present. It denies freedom. Mental attachment in any form denies freedom. Freedom is not a mental image. It is not a fanciful concept, belief, or ideology. It has nothing to do with anything related to memory. Memory is the prison of the past. Freedom is not a prison. Only when every form, type, and measure of the past ends can the mind discover what it means to be free. Freedom depends on nothing, and therefore it has nothing to do with time. Time implies space. It implies distance and separation from the present. Distance means measure. Freedom has nothing to do with measure. Freedom has no measure, which makes it an immeasurable thing.
316. When the tasks of everyday living are done, work to earn a livelihood, shopping, cooking, cleaning, and all that, let the whole of psychological time stand still. Allow the mind to empty itself of time, which means the flow of thought. Psychological time means the flow of thought. It means the playback of memory and the constant activity of idea-making. Let the activity of the mind be completely quiet, which means allow the mind to watch, listen, feel, and nothing else. That means there is no pondering, no analysis, and no trying to figure out this and that. One cannot plan for time to stand still. It is not something that is scheduled in any way, but rather it is the natural outcome of what happens when thought is no longer needed. Do that, and watch what happens. See what takes place when the mind is quiet and utterly silent. In that silence the whole activity of psychological conflict, the conflict of frustration, worry, dread, apprehension, fear, and every form of human sorrow, comes to a stop. The whole of sorrow stops when the flow of thought ends. They end because they are not different activities. They are both one and the same.
317. There is an immense energy that exists within the emptiness of consciousness. It exists in the empty space between thoughts. When the mind is quiet, and devoid of mental chatter, daydreams, or concentration, which means the mind is open and free, then a connection with the empty space occurs. A relationship takes place between the mind and the emptiness. However, one must be open to it. Mental openness is what makes the connection. It is the switch that creates the relationship, and as a result turns on, activates, and releases an immense stream of energy. The energy exists in the emptiness. The emptiness is the energy. It is the same. One only needs to tap into it.
318. In order to live a passionate life one must discard any mental analysis that tries to interpret, compare, or judge. All of that implies thought, partiality and therefore illusion. Go with and follow what feels right, which has nothing to do with analysis, thought, or any movement of memory, which means it has nothing to do with any form of mental restriction. Memory is restriction. They are the same. If all forms of mental restriction drop off, then suddenly and unexpectedly, what it is to live a passionate life comes out. It happens.
319. In every human being there is greatness, majesty, and indescribable magnificence. The magnificence is beyond all that has ever been created by man because it obliterates the whole of every inner hurt, grief, and agony that a person can ever go through. It is greater and more powerful than any amount of money, any religious belief, any scientific invention, any medical breakthrough, and anything and everything that has been ever made by man. To come upon it, one must have deep, intense, profound feelings, not mere feelings based on any sort of faith, conviction, or personal belief, and no feelings of will, effort, or desire. Every ounce of desire must stop for it to show itself. The feelings must have a quality of heightened sensitivity, intense wakefulness, and an absolute openness that has no reservations, no conditions, and no fear whatsoever. The whole of fear must vanish for the magnificence to manifest. Only then can it be invited. Only complete openness to the whole of life will reveal it. Be extremely sensitive, wakeful, and watch how unexpectedly, all at once, it comes. Abandon the whole of human belief, hope, faith, and every form of personal opinion, and see it emerge. See how suddenly the door opens to the magnificence within.
320. When a question is put to the mind, such as a question about what it means to live without anxiety or struggle, what is love, death, God, or whatever, most people seem to respond with a personal viewpoint, theory, philosophy, belief, or opinion. They respond to such questions by expressing the belief or opinion that exists in memory, and from there they move forward. However, the nature of any personal opinion is that it is bias. Personal belief implies partiality. To apply that which is bias to any such question distorts the inquiry. It means the very first step one takes is a wrong step. A mistake happens and as a result one goes astray, takes a wrong path, and gets lost. As long as one uses and proceeds ahead carrying any form of personal viewpoint, ideology, opinion, belief, or any preconceived notion whatsoever, then any finding, or any so-called insight about what is the answer to the question at hand must be bias and therefore distorted. In order to approach a question without distortion, the whole of human opinion and belief must be discarded. Every human theory, ideology, and philosophy about what the answer to a question might or should be, must be scrapped. When all of that is totally renounced and completely purged from the brain, then there is nothing to distort the inquiry. When a question is put forward, all that exists are the words in the question. That means all of your attention and energy are focused completely on the words in the question and nothing else. In other words, a question must be approached with an open mind, with no preconceived ideas, and therefore as if for the first time. To approach a question for the first time means the brain must contain a quality of sensitivity. The brain must be tremendously alert. It is that state of mental alertness that wipes the slate clean in the brain. It is the factor that empties the brain of all forms of bias, and thereby purifies it. As a result the brain finds itself open to explore what the words in a question mean. It is from this psychological openness and emptiness that exploration and learning without distortion takes place. The psychological emptiness that occupies the brain is not bias. It contains no partiality, and therefore not a trace of fragmentation or division. It is a vast dimension that is not divided in any way, which means it is whole. It is a wholeness that the brain comes upon it, and it is from this wholeness, which is the emptiness, that you move, proceed, explore, and learn about the whole of life. Experiment with it. Play with it. See what happens.
321. All mental dependence involves an idea. It involves memory. Memory is the past and the past implies time. Dependence means sorrow. It means jealousy, anger, fear, and everything else that goes with it. All of that is sorrow. There is a solution to the whole of human sorrow that does not involve any book, any idea, and does not take time. That means the solution can take place in an instant, immediately, at this very moment. If the solution does not involve time, then it must have a trait, character, and essence about it that is completely outside the field of time. The solution must have a timeless quality about it. The only thing that ends sorrow and has a timeless quality about it is love. Love is timeless. It ends sorrow. When you have that love, that love which has absolutely nothing to do with any form of mental dependence, then the whole of sorrow ends. It stops and disappears. It does that, because when you depend on nothing you are independent. You are free. That means love and freedom go together. They are the same.
322. Time is an interval, a period or measure of duration. It is a way to order things, experiences, and events that have happened in the past through to the present, and from the present into the future. It is used to schedule meetings, go to work, catch a plane, and all that. This form of time is needed to function in the world. It is a form of time that is rational, sensible, and practical. That is simple. However, there is another form of time. There is the time that exists inwardly as the me, the ego, the self, which may be described as psychological or mental time. The self takes the form of psychological images, mental patterns, and thoughts. It takes the form of memory, and therefore time. This form of time also has duration. It has duration in the continuance of memory and continuity of the psychological attachment to ideas and thoughts. This continuity of living in memory takes the form of personal prejudice, opinion, belief, ideology, philosophy. It takes the form of mental dependence on a job, a spouse, a religious belief, a political ideal. All this is an inner, mental movement of the self, which exists in a field of mental time. Unlike practical time, mental time as psychological attachment is not practical. There is no reason, value, or sense for it. There is no sense to attachment, because it is the cause of every psychological hurt, conflict and fear that human beings have ever experienced. Mental attachment implies fear, fear to lose whatever is the attachment. Where there is fear there is always a division that exists in the brain. The division is inside. It is a mental, psychological division. For example, if you are attached to the image you created of a spouse, then that attachment creates a division between you and the image. If you maintain this image, and relate to the spouse with this image, then inward division is sustained, which means conflict is inevitable. Division means conflict. They are the same. If you are attached to the image of money, a job, a religious faith, a political ideology, or whatever the case may be, then that inward attachment causes the separation that occurs between that image and the image maker. It is this precise inward separation, the separation between the image and the image maker, that is the root cause of every form of psychological problem and conflict that has ever existed and continues today. Only when this mental separation and division end can conflict come to a stop. The end of division is the end of conflict. When division ends, then the whole movement of time, psychological time, comes to a stand still, which means attachment to images no longer exists. As a result an entirely new way of living arises in which psychological attachment ceases to play any part. An extraordinary change takes place. The change is psychological, which expresses itself outwardly in daily life. Life without psychological attachment means living in freedom. No attachment means freedom. They are the same. Freedom is not a movement in time, which means it does not take time to be free. That is the beauty of it. Freedom is independent of time. It means freedom and that which is timeless are the same. This is all obvious and simple if you carefully look at it. Do not blindly believe any of this. Explore it for yourself. Put everything aside, be alone with yourself, which means no books, no internet, no nothing, and carefully go into it. The more care, passion, and energy, you put into it, the more you will discover. Just do it.
323. Question everything. Live fearlessly. Anything less is a misuse.
324. Intelligence has nothing to do with knowledge, skill, or anything related to memory. All of that is innately finite. Intelligence is not finite, which means it has an unlimited and infinite feature about it. That which is infinite extends endlessly, but not in terms of distance or time, which means it is a dimension to life that is placeless, timeless. To come upon this infinite and timeless other, one needs to bring an end to all the mental clutter in the brain, stop all the mindless chatter, petty activities, hopes, dreams, and mental escapes that one occupies oneself with day in and day out. Let all of that go and be intensely aware of sounds, shapes, movements, intentions, hurts, struggles, worries, and all that is encountered or comes to mind. Be aware. Only when one learns what it is to have that quality of awareness, which has nothing to do with knowledge, skill, memory, or time, can the door open to the other. When that takes place, the brain comes upon a revelation. It comes upon an epiphany that changes everything. The change that happens in the brain is unimaginable.
325. Thought as personal belief means prejudice, bias, and therefore distortion. To approach life with distortion creates conflict, violence, and a mess of both the individual and society. It creates an impractical and unnatural way of living. To find out what is means to live differently, without distortion, and to live life in a sane, practical, and natural manner, one must learn what is unnatural, and then deny it. Only when unnatural living ends can sane and healthy living take place. There is no other way.
326. It was a small park in a small town. The massive coast redwoods stood steadfast while the long, flat leaves danced up and down in the cool breeze. A narrow dirt path with tan, grey, and yellow pebbles curved in front of the weathered wooden bench. The bench looked old, but the wood was hard and solid. A flock of crows stood on a distant roof top. The caws echoed back and forth between the black birds. A rich blue sky extended over the park and town, pushed out to the sun, and reached into the immensity of space. Suddenly an emptiness occurred. It occurred in the brain, and touched everything. It was in the park, the bench, the crows, and great trees. It engulfed everything and encompassed all that is. God has been described as that which is unlimited, infinite. People have a mental image of what is God and they are attached to that image. That is where the mistake happens. All mental images exist as memory. Memory is limited. Attachment to any mental image means attachment to memory. It means attachment to that which is limited. Only when attachment to limitation ends, can that which is unlimited reveal itself. It is mental attachment to images that is the error. One must learn what it is to live without the attachment to all mental images, which not only includes the images of God and all religious belief, tradition, custom, ritual, and dogma that goes with it, but it includes every other form of mental attachment one may have about oneself, a job, spouse, house, bank account, or anything else. Every mental attachment to images must end. Only then can one be free. The end of attachment means freedom. It means freedom from that which is limited. If the whole of memory, which means inner limitation, comes to an end, then that which is unlimited, and infinite shows itself. The mind that comes upon this infinite other is not separate from it. Inwardly, all separation ends. What remains is wholeness, a completeness, a one and only. That which is infinite, and therefore sacred, is not an idea. It is not a mental image of any kind. That is the beauty of it. It is real.
327. The only weapon against hate is love. Nothing else can ever work.
328. The greatest teaching one can give another person, if that person has interest to learn or is willing to listen, is to point out what it means to bring an end to the whole of human sorrow. Sorrow includes all the anxieties of life, all fears, all feelings of sadness, loneliness, heartache, anger, depression, worry, and all the inner torment that goes with it. Human sorrow has existed for thousands of years. To bring an end to sorrow means to stop what has been going on throughout the history of mankind. It means a transformation in the human species and what it is to be human. To have the ability to point out to another what it is to live without sorrow, one must first find out what it means for oneself. One must go through it. It must not be a theory, belief, idiotic concept, imitation of any teaching, or new found philosophy. It must be real. It must be a living and breathing actuality. To show another person, a person who has the interest, or can listen without preconceived ideas, what it means to live without sorrow, is the greatest teaching. It is the greatest education, because it is the same as showing a person what is love. To point out to another what ends sorrow and what is love is the same. It is the same because love is what comes about with the end of sorrow. The end of sorrow is what makes love possible. One cannot approach love if there is sorrow in ones life. The whole mechanism of sorrow must shatter and fall into complete ruin for love to show itself. To explore this whole process is the greatest fun. It is the greatest learning and education. There is nothing like it.
329. The man wore a suit and tie, and the woman had on a bright, colorful blouse. They were polite and expressed themselves with confidence. They talked about the great importance for people to have a code, set of rules, and standards to live by. They said if everyone lived by the same standards, then there would be no division or conflict in the world. The man and woman each held a book by their side., and explained that the standards people should live by was in the book. They both belonged to and identified with a particular religious faith. The man said without this faith he would feel lost and life would have no meaning. He was obviously attached to the faith, the book, the standards. He was attached. He was inwardly unable to stand alone on his own two feet. Attachment means dependence. It is the same. The nature of psychological dependence is that it implies an idea or thought. It involves a mental image. A mental image is created, and that image is embraced. It is held, protected, and defended by the image maker. The image maker is you. It is the me, the I, the self. The image maker does what it can to ensure that the image prospers, survives, and goes on. The image is everything to the self. It is everything because there is no difference between the self and the image. The image maker is the image. They are the same. When a person identifies to the image of belief, faith, or to a religious organization, then that mental identification creates, adds to, or modifies, personal identity. It modifies the self. That is what identification does. It modifies and forms the self. As a result there is inward isolation. That is the nature of the beast. It secludes, segregates, and isolates. The self creates a center, and then it acts from that center. It is this self-centered activity that is the real root cause of all division, conflict, and violence that exists in the world. It is this activity that not only causes outward conflict, it also causes inward conflict. It is the cause for every form of psychological conflict that goes on, which includes any feelings one may have of being lost, cut off, with no meaning in life. The man merely added to his problems. Before he was lost and he knew it. Now he is lost and he does not know it. It is this whole self-centered activity of mental dependence that is the problem. Dependence to mental images must end for the whole movement of inward isolation and separation to cease. The images of dependence are the problem. It is all of these images one depends on that must be discarded. They must be put away, let go, and wiped out. What happens when all images of dependence are completely wiped away? What takes place to the person who throws out every psychological dependence to every mental image that exists in the brain? What happens is a psychological transformation. A mental shift occurs. Inwardly one is no longer dependent on any image, which means psychologically dependence ends. The end of dependence means independence. It means freedom. The person discovers what it means to be psychologically free, and therefore able to inwardly, completely, and totally stand alone. The inner freedom that takes place is not an idea or image. There is freedom from all images, the image of the religious faith, political party, family, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, money, sex, job, and all the rest of it. There is freedom from the whole of that. In that freedom there is no isolation or separation. All of that ends. The end of separation means a connection takes place. Instantly an extraordinary connection to the whole of life opens up. There is a sudden and unexpected connection to people, animals, plants, the earth, the sky, the stars, and the whole of life. There is relationship to everything, and that relationship has no division of any kind. That means a relationship comes about in which the whole of division is gone, and therefore it is a relationship that is whole, complete, immensely full and rich. It is a relationship with a fullness and richness that brings a totally new meaning to life. As long as attachment to any mental image persists, then a self exists, which means isolation, separation, and all the conflict and sorrow that goes with it. Freedom is what ends attachment. It is what ends division, and therefore conflict. When one has that freedom then rules, standards, and religious books are not needed. When you have that freedom then you can throw away all your religious books. Learn what it means to be free, and life suddenly has the most extraordinary meaning. It has the most immense significance. The significance to life that freedom brings cannot be conveyed with words or language. What happens is indescribable.
330. If you help a person, provide care, clothes, food, shelter, or whatever, and that help is based on a religious, political, or personal belief, or you help another with the expectation or hope to gain something in return, then that help has nothing to do with love. Any form of belief implies a me, a self. It means self-centered activity, and therefore psychological division, contradiction, and all the terrible mischief and human suffering that goes with it. Any activity by the self denies love. That means to help another based on any sort of religious plan, political motive, philosophical strategy, or personal agenda is not an act of love. Find out what it means to help another without asking for anything in return. That is the only true act of love. Love has no motive or agenda of any kind. It expects nothing in return. Love is not belief. Belief is grounded in memory, and memory is measurable. Love is not measurable, which means it has an immeasurable, infinite, and therefore holy quality about it.
