The sanctity of beinghood
June 2014
You can share your love, your poetry, your beauty, your body, your mind but you cannot possess a man or a woman. But everybody is trying to do that everywhere.
The result is this madhouse we call the planet earth.
The more you try to possess a person, the more that person tries to become independent of you.
You are trespassing on the privacy of the person, which is the only sacred place in the whole world.
Neither Israel is sacred, nor is Kashi sacred, nor is Mecca sacred.
The independence, the beinghood is sacred.
Just look at the so-called lovers – husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends.
All they are doing, is finding ways to trespass, to enter into the private world of the other person.
Because if the person has independence, privacy, individuality, tomorrow she/he may not love them – because love is not something stagnant. It is a moment, it has nothing to do with permanence. If it happens again in the next moment you are blessed.
If it does not happen you should be thankful that at least it did happen before. Remain open: perhaps it may happen again.
The question is not of persons, the question is of love.
You cannot get love from your possessions.
You can get love only from a free agent whose uniqueness is respected by you, whose freedom is respected by you.
-Lao Tzu Teachings