Love never exists for  you, until you exist within it

The master Fullen Quank was a master of the tea ceremony in ancient China many years ago. He had many friends who would call on him not to learn from him his truths, but more to just look at how he prepared their tea for them. They were more interested in the details than the real truth that was being departed to them.

Truth is given from love, and they could feel the love within the ceremony, but they never looked past this feeling to the underlying reason behind it. This was that truth brings to you the feeling of love being understood from itself, and not from the emptiness of any outer shell that tries to hold onto it.

Tea flows, and so does love, was his message

Truth is not a password to a computer program on love, truth is the key to love. Love works through truth, and truth works through love.

How is pouring tea like pouring love?

Giving love to another is pouring it for them into their own receptacle, but then it is still up to them to drink it, or to accept it from you. Love can never be forced onto another, and so pouring tea is pouring love.

Love is a cornerstone of God that is also your own corner stone, or building block. The edge of you is God, and the corners of you allow love to live, that is if you do not point them all outwards towards the details. Let go of wanting explanations, and look at what is love is doing in its vehicle, as well as while it is also being the vehicle.

Truth is within the vessel of love, but the vessel itself is so often only ever just an illusion

The traditional Zen story about pouring tea is all about knowledge, and about emptying the mind, to allow more to come in.

My story is emphasising the point that beyond this knowledge even is the love being shown by the Zen master in pouring his living truth into you, rather than adding just more dead knowledge to your brain.

The original Zen story goes something like this.

Nan-in, a renowned and already famous master, and well respected scholar in his own right, and who was a Japanese Zen master of the Meiji era (1868-1912), once received a distinguished foreign university professor.