#day206 — Public Fediverse posts
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Compassion is passion for all. That can only take place when there is the perfume, the quality of love which is not desire, which is not pleasure, which is not the action of thought. Love is not a thing put together by thought, by environment, by sensation. Love is not emotion, love is not sensation. Love means the love of rocks, love of trees, love of a stray dog, love of the skies, the beauty, the sunset, love of your neighbour, love without all the sensation of sexuality with which it is identified now. Love cannot exist when you are ambitious, when you are seeking power, position, money. How can someone love you when their mind is concentrated on becoming something, on having power in the world? They can sleep with you, have children, but that is not love. That is lust, with all its misery. And without love, you cannot have compassion. When there is compassion, there is clarity, the light that comes from compassion. Every act is clear, and from that clarity comes skill, skill in communication, skill in action, skill in the art of listening, learning, observing. Meditation is the awakening of that intelligence born out of compassion, clarity and the skill that intelligence uses. That intelligence is nonpersonal, non-cultivable; it comes only out of compassion and clarity.
From Meeting Life