Gets me thinking. In the absence of senses, love cannot happen, can it?
What are the senses?
Sight, Speech, Smell, Hearing and Touch.
That leaves out the mind. But aren't these an extension of mind. Tools to help the mind to process a situation.
Perhaps it feed the soul after processing the information.
So, if senses are removed, the mind is not fed and if the mind is not fed, there is no response to love of any sort.
So Suechi, how come awareness and discipline help. Please help me understand.
@dholu The scenerio that you have described is like we are trying to communicate with a person in an ICU or Coma stage.
We might be next or with him everyday & feel for him but the person wouldn't know anything about it till he comes to his senses.
This is true when we are asleep as well, we are still alive but our senses are out.. yet we feel alive in the dream as much as its real.
What J.K. is trying to say here is that love is not what we think it is.
Because we say we love a person but we end up hating few things that they do.
How can there be hate when you love someone.. this means that it is not love, its something else.
To really experience whatever he saying I guess the best thing to do is to observe yourself when you play a new game or when you visit a place for the first time.
The initial sensations that you get.. that feeling... thats normal.. after that when you say that you want to visit the place again & if you do this while keeping the same experience in mind is the problem. Because you might experience something different which is contradictory to what you had experieneced. Thats when you end up hating or having issues.
@minaminosuechi , I get that. Can you give me another example that involves people.
@dholu It is similar to what your son told. If I remember correctly, he told that we need to keep our friends like acquaintances.. so it is similar to that I would say(But not exactly that.. but could be a good start).
Even with people you know, if you have expectations or you try to communicate with them keeping in mind the image of them from past meetings, then you are not communicating with the person in front of you. You're communicating with the person in the past.