Original Love

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The following is an excerpt from the first online 'Original Love ' programme led by Henry Shukman  (http://mountaincloud.org)

'...that deep love is already here and we can most definitely get tastes of it long before we have any awakening ... practice all the way through should be, can be, about getting those tastes - we don't have to be struck by lightening ... we can get real tastes, in all manner of ways, of the belovedness of existing .. right now, you don't have to be some enlightened master, whatever that might be, I certainly don't know, but you don't have to be that, in order to taste this love, and when we taste love, we're good, it's almost as simple as that.. we humans .. we go through an awful lot of suffering, some more, some less ..but basically, everyone's going to get some of it, and we're all going to lose everything in the end anyway, and we all know that, so we're in a precarious situation. But we're also in an incredibly beautiful situation because we've got this precious, precious awareness, and we've got these precious hearts, and when our hearts are touched by love, or open to love, even the tiniest little bit, somehow our life, in some way, is okay, even when we're facing very difficult losses, very grievous situations - if we can find, just open a crack to love - it makes all the difference. And this is what practice ie really about, I believe, is opening up to little tastes of love, and a little taste is all you need. It's like water, there's the great ocean, and there's the little muddy puddle in a parking lot, and a little muddy puddle is the same water. So whether you get vast love of awakening, or a little drop of dew from a smile from a child, it's the same love, and that's all we really need, I've come to believe .. ' (July 2021)