Evolution of love

Tao

BEFORE AND AFTER THOUGHTS - VAST OPENNESS

Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can
deal with whatever life brings you, and when
death comes, you are ready.
You can’t empty your mind of thoughts. You might as well try to empty the ocean of its water. Thoughts
just keep coming back, it seems. That's the way of it.

But thoughts aren't a problem if they're met with understanding. Why would you even want to empty
your mind, unless you're at war with reality?

I love my thoughts. And if I were ever to have a stressful
thought, I know how to question it and give myself
peace. Even the most stressful thought could come along, and I would just be amused. You can have ten
thousand thoughts a minute, and if you don't believe
them, your heart remains at peace.

The original stressful thought is the thought of an I.
Before that thought, there was peace. A thought is
born out of nothing and instantly goes back to where
it came from. If you look before, between, and after
your thoughts, you'll see that there is only a vast openness. That's the space of don't-know. It's who we really are. It’s the source of everything, it contains everything: life and death, beginning, middle and end.