True love awaits

 Truth is permanent. The real is changeless. What changes is not real; what is real does not change. What is it in you that does not change? As long as there is food, there is body and mind. When the food is stopped, the body dies and the mind dissolves. But does the observer perish?

 

You yourself are the proof. You have not, nor can you have any other proof. You are yourself, you know yourself, you love yourself. Whatever the mind does, it does for the love of its own self.

 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

[I Am That]

 

An investor once gave this advice at his retirement speech, “Do not fall in love with your stock, it does not love you back!”

 

Likewise, Nisargadatta makes a good point. There are programs running us. We identify with them and mistake them to be us, but we are not. Life alerts us constantly that these “me, myself and I” storylines do not work in our best interest. The friend who clashes with us and who seems to be so unreasonable asks us to dig deep. The problems that life confronts us with point to the embedded inner conflicts these programs have. Sometimes, all we have to do is to sit quietly and observe the thoughts and feelings that rush through our system. Maybe it has happened to you too that you suddenly awake from a trance and figure, “this doesn’t make any sense at all”, yet it seemed plausible while the programs were running.

 

There is a robot at work that has been programmed over the eons. What we have to do is to observe and awake from the slumber. Behind the mechanical programs that are in love with themselves, true love awaits.