| Many people have asked the question, what is love? | | | | moulded by the society that you lived in. You were |
| There is no direct answer as the indescribable cannot | | | | no longer the empty vessel from birth, but rather |
| be described. What we can do is look at what is not | | | | something very far removed from that point, a |
| love and this action of negating all that is not love | | | | product of beliefs, comparisons and judgments. Your |
| from our lives would then leave us with love. We | | | | journey into suffering had begun. |
| know that judgments are not love. How many of us | | | | Who you have become is not the real you. Your |
| judge ourselves and others. What thoughts and | | | | parents, religion, country, education and society do |
| opinions do you have when you look in the mirror? | | | | not make you who you are, they only mould you |
| Are these thoughts loving or judgmental? Can you | | | | into something that they believe you 'should be', and |
| have such a thing as loving thoughts? Or is all thought | | | | this has created a 'false self'. Is it possible to know |
| based on the past, on memory, which is comparison. | | | | your 'real self' which is love? That which exists |
| Comparison is duality, put into compartments of good | | | | beyond all of this conditioning? If there is something |
| or bad, so love itself is not thought, because it is not | | | | beyond your false self, then what is the first starting |
| split into opposites. Try it for yourself, think of | | | | point to uncover this 'real you?' If we see for a fact |
| something or somebody and look at your thoughts | | | | that we have become something other than what |
| to see whether or not you label it as good or bad? | | | | we truly are, then this 'observation' is the first step. |
| Therefore even positive thoughts are based upon | | | | This looking at the self without judgment, will set you |
| judgments and opinions and ultimately not love. | | | | free, as this is real self knowledge. No guru, beliefs, |
| If you belong to a religious secular, an atheist group, | | | | religion or new age system can give you self |
| a government party or any other elite system, then | | | | knowledge. This treasure of looking and seeing |
| that is also not love, because you are separating | | | | yourself just as you are and recognising all the |
| yourself from others and separation is not love. | | | | striving and desire to become something, releases |
| Anything that divides humanity is destructive, even | | | | the constant external search on a supposed path to |
| nationality is a division of one from another. These | | | | ambition or spiritual enlightenment. |
| systems have created a 'me' and a 'you' and a 'right' | | | | No-one can give you self-knowledge. Only you can |
| and a 'wrong'. The world is governed by systems | | | | discover you. This discovery is the realisation and |
| based on duality and separation, whilst the real cry of | | | | observation of the conditioned false self and what |
| humanity has been ignored. Nobody is truly listening. | | | | emerges from this awareness is the truth. Where |
| How do we know this? When somebody is talking to | | | | fear and illusion is not, love is. |
| you, do you truly listen or are you thinking at the | | | | So, be true to yourself. If you find you are jealous, |
| same time and debating what to say next? Or are | | | | angry and opinionated, see that as a fact. Do not try |
| you forming an opinion based upon comparison? | | | | to justify it, deny it, hide it or change it. Looking at |
| When you do this to another person are you loving | | | | something without labelling it as good or bad, which is |
| them? Do you feel loved when it is being done to | | | | comparison, sets you free as you are being |
| you? You cannot truly listen and think at the same | | | | non-judgmental. This also releases blame of yourself |
| time. If you truly listen by allowing your thoughts to | | | | and others. When you see that blame is not love, |
| come forth and move out without getting caught up | | | | then you can let go of it and the suffering will end. It |
| in them, then you are committing an act of love. It | | | | is said that we learn through suffering, this is not |
| would seem that love is not what you do, but when | | | | true. We as humans have suffered for thousands of |
| you stop doing or trying, then it is there naturally. | | | | years and we have learnt nothing. There is still |
| When you were first born your mind was empty, | | | | endless suffering and abuse upon this planet. When |
| you had no memory, yet you had the instinct to cry | | | | will we say, 'enough is enough?' Until you love, you |
| when you felt pain or hunger and a response came | | | | will always suffer. You personally need to take action |
| from an external source to soothe that pain and | | | | to find peace, love, honesty and joy inside of you, or |
| hunger. You were also very sensitive to the world | | | | the chaos will ensue. |
| around you through scent, touch, listening and | | | | You are the world and the world is you. The chaos |
| feelings. As you grew older you were influenced by | | | | and suffering is not 'out there'. It is not someone |
| your parents who filled you with their beliefs, their | | | | else's problem. The problem exists in each individual, |
| opinions and conditioning. Education added to, and | | | | making you a key element for peace on this beautiful |
| reinforced these beliefs and your opinions, likes, | | | | planet; that's how important you really are. |
| dislikes and reactions to pain or pleasure were being | | | | Only the truth will set you free. |