The Quality of Love in Zen

When I first started to do Vipashana meditation in 1970 I would go and sit with Gawankana and the Nindran people. And I come out of it so dry my heart would be so closed that I just want a bhakti hit. The end of three weeks I felt closer to Maharaji in love than I had ever felt before. But it wasn't romantic love or I love you, it was a quality that what the emptiness of Zen, it means empty of the clinging to forms. It's not an intellectual appreciation, it's appreciation from inside it.