We have been as yet somewhat incomplete in our explanation of what we mean when we say "Love".

Love to you - in your perception that is based on cultural tradition, social cues, literature, music and real emotion - is limited.   It's limited in part because your perceptions are inherently limited, because you perceive what there is on the physical plane, which are things that you can touch feel things, imagine, see, hear, smell or taste.

But when we say love, we don't limit that to this good "heart" feeling that you get when culturally and socially you think of the work love.  We mean complete presence: a complete awareness.

And so saying that love is attention is accurate.  When you give your attention to something, you're not judging it.  You're not deeming it worthy, unworthy, good, bad, painful or beautiful. You are simply noticing.  You are simply being with it - and this is love.

Deep Meditation is Love

One of the most useful elements in meditation is simply a practice of noticing What Is, which truly means you're loving it.  You are giving it your undivided attention without comparison. You are not saying "I'm wearing brown pants today" and then thinking about brown pants as the lesser of the two between brown pants and black pants.  You're not thinking that these brown pants and the texture of them somehow connotes that you are of a lower class, because you are wearing corduroy and that's associated with the working-class.  You're not thinking about these brown pants and the fact that they haven't been laundered in six months and what that might mean to you.  You're simply saying "I have on brown pants".  It's a very accepting energy, this loving attention.

But it's not unquestionably expecting, you see?  It's not blindly accepting.  So perhaps your brown pants have a tear in them, and perhaps in some contexts that would be a negative thing.  But if you simply observe "my brown pants have a tear in them", and then don't attach anything good or bad to that observance, you are loving your brown pants as they are.  You're not loving them because they have a tear in them and placing more attention upon that than is necessary - you are simply observing What Is.

It is very difficult to observe things As They Are in every moment, because almost everything that you look around and see has an emotional connection for you.  That is part of how you experience life - by threading your way through all the emotional connections.  You look around the room and you see perhaps the furniture, a computer, a shoe, and a magazine and each of those things hold some sort of emotional architectural meaning for you.  Holding yourself to the simple act of observing "I see a sofa.  I see a computer.  I see a magazine" does not limit you in any way to the emotional connection that could be contained within these simple statements.

And because of that, you place your awareness on the computer and you can love it for what it is.  You don't have to think of it as "my computer" or something else's, or what information might be contained within that computer or what that computer might be used for, or how old is this and how you feel you really should be replacing it.  No.  It simply is.

We would like you to think of this attention and presence as Love.