The Innocency of Love

Love is innocency: It is the activity of the very light that we are. Innocency is not naiveté, it is simply free from the taint of ideals and beliefs and is therefore totally without the slavery and imprisonment of the conditioned state of mind.

Therefore, Love in its innocency, is action that is without attachments. Action means the active present, which indicates that it cannot be based on an ideal or a belief (for they are in the past), nor on hope (for hope is in the future), otherwise such action would not be in the present. In Love there is no division between the action and what the action should be, that is to say, our ideas about it. Action with timelessness, with no reference to the future and no pointing to the past; not according to experience or moral codes, not accordingly as a Christian, Muslim, Jew or Buddhist and according to no form-ulation of the mind; this is Love.

Love is the innocency of immediacy. This activity is then the living of life and not the mind's indulgence in its action, in the separation of the ownership of the act. It is a priory to thought, for our thought is sequential to true action. True impulse to movement comes before thought.

Where does thought have a place in this immediacy of this state of innocency?

It is no doubt obvious that thought must play a part in our lives, and so it must, in the organisation of our activity in the time and place of our being, in others words, it has a place in our daily lives. However, we require a type of thought that does not perpetuate the conditioning of the mind in its self-seeking isolation. What we require is co-operative thought, as this allows us to be without the idiosyncrasies of the individual in separation.  Co-operative thought, by its very definition, requires the inclusion of all in its purpose and therefore serves all in its participation. When we remain in the innocency of Love we may then organise and plan for the future that includes us all, free from the tyranny of the past. Equally we remain free from hope for the future that is anyway based on past experience and remain open to its unfolding grace. We do not try to fill the space of our being ahead of our expansion into it. We allow the pull of this expansion of the universe to constantly open before us, as the moon pulls the tide and the sea is equally willing to oblige. The tranquility of the still waters of the true Self reflects everything as it truly is, without the filters of the past or future, in the eternal presence and so without time. The simple innocency of a mirror that reflects all thing clearly. 

Love is not a formulation of the mind; it is found in the spaciousness of our own Being and will never be found in con-form-ity. Ours is the opportunity to be the Form of Love - yet for this to be so, we have to let go of the love of form; everything that we have form-ulated. Then we awaken to Formlessness of Form and the Love that holds it All.