Let's do a self-exploration meditation on Love Is Not Desire.
Let's allow the eyes of the waker to close.
Let's allow relaxation to seep in.
Take the stand of the witness of the waker.
Allow all perceptions,
Sensations,
Thoughts and feelings to fade away.
Let them fade away into the blankness of their witnessing background.
Hold on to the quietness of the background.
Embrace your true nature of blankness.
Allow the body arising of the waker to appear and disappear.
That body arising is the perceived.
That is not you.
The body arising only appears on your blankness and disappears back into your blankness.
You are not the perceived.
You are not the body.
In fact,
The body is a wave that appears and disappears in you.
You are not the perceived.
Turn towards the one who has labelled the body arising as the perceived.
Turn inwards towards the one who has been labelled as the perceiver.
Now enquire.
Are you the perceiver?
Follow the eye that is claiming to be the perceiver.
Follow the eye.
Do you notice that the eye dissolves?
Do you notice that the perceiver is not?
But you,
The blankness,
Still are.
Is there clarity that you are not the perceiver?
Is there clarity that you are neither the perceiver nor the perceived?
Then who are you?
What are you?
Are you the process of perceiving?
Dive deeper into this enquiry.
When there is neither the perceiver nor the perceived,
Then how is perceiving possible?
There is no eye that can be labelled as the knower.
There is no body that can be labelled as the known.
Then how can there be the process of knowing?
All is one.
All is one.
This oneness of the eye sense and the body is love.
This oneness of the perceiver,
Perceived and perceiving is love.
When the eye sense seeks identification and projects I want this or I want that,
That is not love.
That is only desire.
Love is not desire.
True love is devoid of distinction or separation between I and the world.
When all is seen as one,
That is love.
No distinction,
No separation between I and the world is true love.
The flavour of true love is the sweetness of oneness.
That flavour of sweetness is experienced every night in deep sleep.
That is the reason why you love to sleep.
Because the state of deep sleep is the highest state of love.
Deep sleep is the backdrop of the waking and dream.
It is the same blankness that you are.
That blankness,
That sweet oneness is your true flavour.
You are love.
That sweet witnessing backdrop of waking and dream reflects its love onto the waking and dream.
That's why you get glimpses of love in the waking world and dream world.
But those glimpses are mere reflections.
They are not reflected.
Because reflections cannot satisfy,
The I remains unsatiated in the waking and dream worlds.
The I seeks love.
It's actually thirsting for the union between the perceiver,
The perceived and the perception.
It is seeking the highest union,
The true love.
In its search for that true love,
It desires.
It's actually desiring the sweetness in waking and dreaming which is actually available in deep sleep.
It's looking in the wrong direction.
The search for love in the wrong direction is called desire.
True love is not desire.
When the I quits desiring and recognises its true nature of desirelessness,
It finally tastes the flavour of true love.
It remembers that it always tasted this desirelessness in the deep sleep state and chose to forget it when it came back to the waking and dreaming.
Self-realisation happens.
The sweetness of true love is tasted.
Only this true love can bring one to self-realisation.
Self-realisation begets ananda,
Bliss,
The highest happiness.
Only true love begets true happiness.
Quit running behind the reflection of love because love is not desire.
Love is not desire.
Love is not desire.
