“Truth is in the experience not in the description.” I have heard this said many, many times by my Kriya yoga meditation teacher. I do not know if it is original or a quote. It doesn’t matter it resounds with me ever time I hear it, every time I think it. It is one of those zen things that is way deeper and multilayered than it first appears.
Love is like that - way deeper and multilayered than it first appears.
Love is:
gentle; kind, compassionate; willing; experimentation; practice; devotion; doing again, and again, and again without expectation of getting something or getting rid of something; presence to this breath; presence to this life; intent to learn; not fear; in the experience, in the experience of pain, in the experience of joy, in the experience of the moment; connection.
We humans seem to feel the deepest connection with self and with each other in our experiences of deepest joy and in our experiences of deepest pain.
I read an article recently in Glamour magazine while waiting for Kathryn to finish her clay class. It was by Eve Ensler. Do you remember her? Celebrated playwright. Creator of the Vagina Monologues.
Well she has certainly taken it to the next level. She takes us past our comfort zone. She takes us where most of us would not go alone or without guidance. She takes us to a world of deep love born of deep suffering. The article is, Women left for dead–and the man who’s saving them.
It is painful, provocative, moving. It is seeping, oozing and sticky with love.
Love is not only in beauty. It is also in the ugly. Love is everywhere. Love is in all things. The trick is can we see it. Often we can feel it way before we can see it. This is my experience. I feel before I see, then I struggle to translate those feelings into words - an ineffectual attempt to communicate to another human being. An attempt to connect.
This is my experience of love - feeling, connecting, again and again, coming to know my self more and more in the process of knowing others.
Love too, like truth, seems to be in the experience not the description. Perhaps love is truth. What’s love got to do with it? Perhaps everything. Maybe it is not the second hand emotion Tina Turner sang about in 1984. Maybe I am not as cynical as I was in 1984.
What is your experience of love?
What is your experience of truth?
Enjoy! Happy, happy day! 
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Published by DJ January 29th, 2008 in Connection, Consciousness, Healing, Women/Womyn, Yogic Wisdom
Love is the ultimate answer, love opens us up to the ultimate truth. Love helps us through the learning process of discovering our truths and the truths of another may not be the same.
Love gives us the strength to endure, love gives us the reason to move, love gives us the reason to stay.
Love is the ultimate answer… But what is the the ultimate question?
In Douglas Adams’ classic comedy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a city-sized supercomputer called Deep Thought spends seven and a half million years trying to figure out “life, the universe and everything” before coming up with the answer “forty-two”. The supercomputer concludes that it didn’t really know the ultimate question of “life, the universe and everything” in the first place, and goes on to design an organic computer experiment called Earth to work out what the question should have been. Deep Thought says, “So once you do know what the question actually is, you’ll know what the answer means.”
So if you subscribe to Adam’s, I guess that is what we are all here for - to determine the ultimate question by being part of the organic life that functions in the operational matrix of the infinitely subtle and complex computer called Earth.