Zen and love
For the second time recently I just found myself talking to a friend about "love", and the relationship of love to Zen.
There's a story about Zen and love where it is said that "normal" love is like holding a coin in your hand, where you place the coin in your hand, and then close your fingers and wrap them around the coin to hold onto it. In Zen you also have a coin and your hand, but you simply hold the coin in the palm of your open hand.
(I'm sorry I don't remember who first said that or wrote it.)
OBEs as work, love, death
Last night was one of those nights that make trying to have an OBE seem like work. To the greatest extent possible, I did everything last night just like I did the night before, but nothing happened, nothing was ever close to happening. So at roughly 5am I woke up, rolled over, said "f*ck", and went back to sleep.
As a result, today would normally be a very trying, irritable day for me (because of the disappointment), but after rolling over, I was fortunate enough to have one of those long "love" dreams that helps you wake up happy.
I woke up in love this morning
Ahh, how nice to start the morning off with one of those nice "love" dreams this morning. Not sex, mind you, just the feeling of love, and some hugging and kissing. Yes, I know it's fantasy, but it sure is a nice way to wake up before the reality of the day kicks in. And now I can't stop singing the old song, "I woke up in love this morning", lol.
Unrequited love
(Just a musing here today as my brain seems to be turning into marshmallow from pain-killers.)
I've heard the phrase "unrequited love" so often lately (and have used it myself) I thought I better look it up to see if I really understand what it means. Here's a link to "unrequited love" at Wikipedia, and here's their definition:
PK, sex, and love
Quick notes: Last night I felt like this might be one of those OBE nights, but I feel like I messed that up by watching tv until nearly 11pm, and then immediately going to bed. (The feeling here is getting easier to describe. Some people might call it feeling "spacey", or ungrounded.)
