As we go through life, there are many dilemmas that we encounter, but there’s one particular dilemma at the core of spiritual understanding. That’s the dilemma of being made of form and yet trying to understand the formless. Of being involved in the form and all of the fascinations that the form is drawn to, yet simultaneously trying to detach from the form and paying obeisance and understanding that reality is in a formless state. We have been told and it has been explained to us, that we are form with formlessness within us. In other words, as we walk, we have a shadow but inside us there’s a part of us that is shadowless.
Since the formlessness is not visible, we can’t see the form that’s in the way that we see form. This causes great dilemmas, especially our sensory self because we are used to dealing with sensory things and we are used to responding to them by way of seeing or touching or feeling. Yet, we have to develop an understanding and a consciousness that there are things that exist that are formless that have great power. Not only do they have great power, they can exist when the form doesn’t exist. They can exist when the form disappears. They have an eternality to them that the form doesn’t have.
We talk about these formless things, but many times when we talk about these formless things, we attach form to them so that when we discuss them, when we think about them, when we envision them, they have a form to them.
For instance, when you mention the word “love”, to a man a beautiful woman may come to mind, to a woman a handsome man may come to mind. Loves becomes attached to and part of some sort of physical relationship… I love my car, I love my home, I love my kids, I love something or somebody.
Is it possible that love exists in a formless state and is in fact something all by itself without any attachment to anything else. This thing we call love that puts us in a different state of mind can also put us in a different state of being if we understand the truth of it.
Can we have love that’s not attached to physical boundaries? Can we have love that exists for its own right? For its own sake? For its own unique essence? Can we understand that love and be involved in that love. In other words, love as an entity by itself, without form, without substance, without weight, but yet with enormous power to change and alter the way things are?
Can we know love at that level? Can we, instead of loving something outside ourselves, become love? In other words the essence of that formless thing that is incredibly powerful. Can we become that? Can we become part of what is formless? Can we attach to the formless as opposed to attaching to the form?
