Reflection 28

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Seeing Is Loving

Seeing is not concerned with feeling, it is concerned with fact. And if I see Who I am I find that my very nature is openness. In a certain non-sentimental, non-feeling sense, Seeing is loving because Seeing is totally dying for the other and really being annihilated for the other and it is not in the realm of feeling or thinking. It is more fundamental. It does not feel as one would expect love to feel but I think it is, shall I say, a specially deep kind of loving. So deep the feeling is left floating. It goes beneath the feeling to the fact. It is not a kind of embryo loving or inferior loving, it is a culmination of loving. (1977 interview with Douglas Harding)

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