created: `=dateformat(this.file.ctime, "DDDD, HH:mm")` updated: `=dateformat(this.file.mtime, "DDDD, HH:mm")` tags: #technologicallove/connections related notes: _A temple of love_ [originally written in apple notes at full bloom 2024 as "a temple to love"] Where can we learn to [[love]]? Where can we be surrounded by it? In nature, watching the trees and grasses and flowers and birds and critters and bugs and mountains and rivers all live in harmony together, supporting each other But this is not human love We are still learning But it comes with the same principles ... Let us build a [[temple]] to love A place built with love and in love with it's environment Designed to love its inhabitants And those who visit And to teach them gently Through demonstration and [[support]] What it is to be in love And how to love Where shall this temple live? In a place that stands for care and understanding, for respect and openness, the ingredients for love In a place where diverse beings come together Humans from many places and perspectives Plants, animals, land, and water ... Berkeley hills What shall it be made of? It shall be made of materials Given freely or from understanding that this is how the materials want to be Where the form and past lives of the ingredients of the temple are honored How shall it be constructed? From dreams and care In collaboration What shall it hold? music love The temple shall be made of love and in love with its surroundings Before you enter the temple, you shall become in love as yourself As you transition, you shall hold and care for the temple trust the temple with all of your being and open yourself to receiving its gifts Inside the temple, you become part of it Resonating in love As one beautiful being Comprised of many beautiful parts We may construct temples and become part of them in love with them But the temple is not just a place It is created by understanding Of what is already here As I construct this temple I slowly become love And when we are ready I will live there Supported, cared for, and thriving And overflowing love into the world