To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/08/14 22:44
Subject: Re: [K-list] Loving myself
From: Lone Path
On 2004/08/14 22:44, Lone Path posted thus to the K-list:
Hi,
I agree with you Dormouse when you say, “It seems to me from that experience that it is not so much where our love is directed as to how much we feel of real Love’ because real Love is never directed, it just radiates to all and everything, as is my experience too.
Love, for the majority of people, is not really love but a mixture of desire to love and to be loved, and to want to love oneself is yet another desire as far as I am concerned, this is why I initially asked “what type of love are we talking about here’. The desire to do anything to express and evoke this feeling is consequently to make oneself feel comfortable within. Real Love is unmotivated and, therefore, requires nothing in return. Real Love is a term which can be described as awakening and acceptance, acceptance of ourselves and others as we are, where there is only the ‘all´ with no distinctive parts, and where compassion makes observation of everyone as ‘me´, it is that we become/are them. Love embraces what is, as it is, and because it Is without conditions.
I forget where I found this text (below) but it is certainly food for thought, and I agree with it too:
“Most attempts at compassion are simply the projections of a needy ego in a vain attempt to bolster its dream and force others into helping it in its desperate projecting. We instead project our opinions and needs, hates and loves, out into the world of "others" and then pretend that our manipulations of these others is compassion. Being lost in the movie of one's own inner drama does not provide compassion.’
I found this when I gave up everything, my job, my savings, even my husband, to help the poor – it was false compassion!!! I had to experience it to realise it. All I did in fact was boost my feeling of pleasure to help others, as well as boosting my ego. I was so enthused by what I was doing that I lost all ‘sight´ of why I was doing it, and the veil of ignorance blinded my vision to the real reason. When I was finally honest with myself and dared to ‘look´, I realised that I only did this for self-pleasure and not really to help others. People called this compassion, I eventually ‘saw´ and called it self-pleasure!
Best wishes and much Love,
Grotweed
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