True Passion

What does it mean to have passion to be passionate?  When you wake up in the morning are you what you were yesterday, or has something new and never before been realized?  Is life just a series of events that either make you happy or sad?  Or do you live a life of intelligence and understanding? In order to experience true passion a person must first experience total abandonment of everything.  Letting go of all attachment.  The mind must be free of all its idealistic tendencies.  Total abandonment requires intense passion.  The kind of passion that turns all belief, desire and conformity on its head.  It leaves you empty and without any notion of a self that is seeking or acquiring.  Within this freedom is the essence of a mind that understands the illusion of position, power and prestige.

True passion is not emotion.  It does not have anything to do with the activity of doing or being.  It is not a romance or a respectable craft.  It is the flame within that destroys the minds preoccupation with the things that we call important.  True passion enables you to feel the world around you as if you were it.  Not a separate entity but a whole consciousness that moves with the leaves of a tree, with the impoverished, with the enormously rich and corrupt.  All things become as one movement.  To realize all this intensely is passion.

When you are passionate then you have a sensitivity to life.  Out of that sensitivity we realize love that is without a purpose.  In such a state their is no me that is censoring, that is right or wrong, moral or immoral.  With that love is born a new intelligence that understands the whole movement of life.  It is not a self centered intelligence, but it is a realization of the beauty of life and a new respect for its diversity and immensity.

This passionate mind is inquiring.  Such a mind does not belong to any organizational mentality.  It is a mind that is free to look without the angst of political, ideological, or religious imposition.  It is a mind that never arrives at conclusion.  But it is a mind that realizes the truth of the absolute moment, a mind that is not caught in the tradition of the past.  Neither is such a mind caught in the reformation of the old as if it were actual change.  Such a mind does not seek change, it is change.  True passion is without a cause.  It is free of all attachment.  Because it is totally unrelated to a cause, it is not an effect.  It is the truth of the absolute moment.