The journey of Love prepares the ground for meditation

Mar 5 eve
Just now tot of sharing with Y, the new French cafe. Then I remember I can't anymore.

Maturity
Really love - just being in the presence of the other u feel suddenly happy, just being together u feel ecstatic, just the  very presence of the other fulfills something deep in ur heart - something starts singing in ur heart, u fall into harmony.

Soul
When I asked Y what makes him happy. He was surprised as it never occur to him. Then after awhile he replied that when he read my messages, he feels happy. Alas he doesn't goes for happiness. His North node in Leo said his life path is to be happy.

I know the things that makes me happy. Being with Y do makes me happy. Knowing he is there makes me happy.

Maturity
Be alert - never think of sex as love, otherwise u be deceived. Be alert, and when u start feeling with someone that just the presence, the pure presence - nothing else, nothing else is needed; u don't ask anything, just that the presence, just that the other is, is enough to make u happy ... Something starts flowering within u, a thousand and one lotuses bloom, then you are in love.
And then u can pass through all the difficulties that reality creates. Many anguishes, many anxieties - you will be able to pass through all of them and your love will be flowering more and more, because all those situations will become challenges. And your love, by overcoming them, will grow more and more strong.

Soul
Amen.

Maturity
Love makes u real; otherwise u remain just a fantasy, a dream with no substance. But it is only half the journey; the other half has to be completed in meditation, in awareness. But love prepares u for the other half. Between love and awareness, between these two banks, the river of being flows.

Don't avoid love. Go through it, with all its pains. Yes, it hurts, but if you are in love, it doesn't matter. In fact, all those hurts strengthen you. Sometimes it really hurts badly, terribly, but all those wounds are necessary to provoke you, to challenge u, to makes u less sleepy.  All those dangerous situations are to make u alert. Love prepares the ground, and in the soil of love, the seed of meditation can grow - and only in the soil of love.
So those who escape from the world of fear will never attain to meditation. They can sit in the Himalayan caves for lives together, they will not attain to meditation - they have not earned it. First it has to be earned in the world; first they have to prepare the soil. And it is only love that prepares the soil.

Soul
My soil is ready. Today I paid up for Kailash. After five years in Isha, I am ready to go home. Coincidentally this year Sadhguru will spend all 21 days in Kailash.

Maturity
Hence my insistence not to renounce the world. Be in it, take its challenge, accepts its danger, its hurts, its wounds. Go through it. Don't avoid it, don't try to find shortcut because there is none. It is a struggle, it is ardous, it is an uphill task, but that's how one reaches the peak.
And the joy will be more. The closer u come to the peak, the higher the joy rises in u. Ur spirit soars high. U earn it, it is not free. And the more u paid for it, the more u will enjoy it.

The journey creates the goal. The goal is not sitting there at the end of the journey, the journey creates it at each step. The journey is the goal. The journey and the goal are not separate, they are not two things. The end is spread over all the way; all the means contain the end.

Soul
For the first time I can now begin to understand this Osho card on journey.
So instead of lamenting why I haven't reach my goal of my husband. I can now see my journey and the profile development of my partner. It has definitely improved. And I have overcome my fear or rejection.

Maturity
Once u are Real, u can't become unreal again. But one had to earn it. Let me repeat; in life u cannot get anything free. And if u do get it, it is useless. U have to pay, and the more I pay for it, the more u will get out of it.

So never miss the opportunity of living, of being alive, of being responsible, of being committed, of getting involved. Don't be a coward. Face life, encounter it. And then slowly, slowly something in u crystallise.

If u can risk ur whole life in love, great will be ur attainment. Love will send u back to urself; it will gives u a few reflections of meditation.

Soul
Courage card.