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Recieved: 2004/07/25 21:43
Subject: [K-list] Love
From: Lone Path
On 2004/07/25 21:43, Lone Path posted thus to the K-list:
Hi everyone,
Just thought that I would share my idea of love.
Love, for the majority of people, is not really love, but a mixture of desire to love and to be loved. The desire to do anything to express and evoke this feeling is consequently to make itself feel comfortable within.
It is this so-called love which describes so many human relations, as between couples, parents, children, etc. Blinded by the veil of their feelings, knowing little of real love, which is free and leaves others free also, they do everything to attract an affectionate response. Study the meaning of "affection" and you will understand its true significance. Affection is not love. It is a desire which is expressed by the astral body and which influences our relationships; it is not a spontaneous reaction of the soul which is free from desire and which does not require anything for its separate self. The veil of feelings imprisons and disorientates; it imposes obligations, which do not exist, producing a veil, which must eventually be dissipated by the surge of a true and unmotivated love.
Love is without sentiment because sentiment is thought, sensation, pleasure, devotion, attachment, etc., and love is without attributes, qualities, motivation. The beauty of love is neither in memories of the past nor in projected images of the future.
When thought is excluded, there is no sentiment, sentiment meaning: “senti’ = feeling, “ment’ = mental (“senti’ from the French “sentir’, to feel). But does sentiment really exist?
Real Love is a term, which can be used to describe awakening, integrity and acceptance. With awakening, there is only the ´all', never distinctive parts, and there is a compassion which makes the intrinsic part of observation of each one and all, as ‘me´. Consciousness has an overwhelming love for all manifestation.
The presence of ‘distinction´ is the absence of love, and the presence of love is the absence of distinction. It is only when one is truly convinced that the same life flows in all and that one is this life that one can love naturally and spontaneously. Love is not a distinction based on emotions, it is not that we love others, it is that we ARE them and hence love without distinction.
Love embraces what is, as it is, and only because it ‘is´, without conditions that it is otherwise than what it is.
Personal relationships are not without conditions and are ever-changing, and are really relationships of exchange. They depend on mutual satisfaction, hopes and demands. When these are achieved, there is temporary satisfaction, gratitude, and self-respect increases, but when these things are ignored or refused, there is concern, rejection and blame. Because relationships of exchange can only survive as long as both receive and both still want to give what the other wants, many relationships end in disillusionment. Other relationships, after a long period of hope, some partly realised and some partly disappointed, resign themselves to putting up with their relationship, this not being an ‘acceptance´ in its rightful sense. And yet others still, though rarely, after having survived the initial relationship, are finally able to love in the transcendental sense of unconditional love.
An exalted form of temporal love is identification with an object or a person. This can happen in a personal relationship or a family relationship. It can also happen in the practice of loving God or a guru. As one identifies with the other, there is a tendency that any distinction disappears. When this identification extends to the whole of humanity, it becomes universal. Identification with another is perhaps the closes one can get to transcendental love whilst still preserving the belief of distinction.
Best wishes and much Love,
Grotweed
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