The Essence of a Buddha, Part 5 of 5 Feb. 28, 2005

Love is not a bar to spiritual progress. It’s just attachment is a different thing. I can’t really explain it. Some couples are very loving together, and they’re OK. And other couples look like also loving together, but it’s attachment. You understand? You two are love! Because you are highly developed persons, so you have real love, understand? It’s different. But attachment really will slow you down. It’s just we all have artistic tendency within us. Because we came from the Creator, it’s the urge to create, beautiful things. We came from beautiful planets, and we came from beautiful worlds. We came from beauty, truth, and virtues. So even in the human form, we’re so encased, so blind, and so locked up, we still feel the urge to do it. Some people feel more, some people feel less. It depends on the situation that they can develop or not.