~Love is Truth~
Continuing on the previous post, I wanted to speak a bit more about love and freedom.
By 'love' here I mean, 'seeing something or someone (self included) beyond limits or judgments, with a total acceptance of how and what they are in the moment'. I believe this kind of love to be essential for positive inner growth, healthy relationship, and ultimately for realizing freedom. I also believe this kind of love to be the prerequisite to deep and lasting socio-political change.
It is said, 'love is truth'. Why? Love is awakening to the vision and corresponding action that we are beyond any and all limits we could set for ourselves...and this is also truth. This is also freedom.
Try it for yourself...it's really a moment-to-moment practice. At any moment take a given sensation or experience or situation and just let it be completely as it is...ask nothing of it...just bare witness to it...sense it directly. You may notice in that moment a deep sense of spaciousness and peace...a sense of slowing down and balance. These qualities are always there, at the core, but are obscured and covered over by agenda, by a need for it to be otherwise...in other words, by a lack of love.
And something I have found to be so incredible is that when we are truly loving something, we are free of it, and we are allowing it to be free simultaneously. And when this is happening, we actually have a greater availability to play within this world, within our experience. In our love, we are at once less bound by the world, and yet deeper in it. This is definitely one of those spiritual paradoxes.
Of course, this is my insight coming from my own experience...I fully invite you to try this out, and arrive at your own conclusions. Please feel free...
In love,
By 'love' here I mean, 'seeing something or someone (self included) beyond limits or judgments, with a total acceptance of how and what they are in the moment'. I believe this kind of love to be essential for positive inner growth, healthy relationship, and ultimately for realizing freedom. I also believe this kind of love to be the prerequisite to deep and lasting socio-political change.
It is said, 'love is truth'. Why? Love is awakening to the vision and corresponding action that we are beyond any and all limits we could set for ourselves...and this is also truth. This is also freedom.
Try it for yourself...it's really a moment-to-moment practice. At any moment take a given sensation or experience or situation and just let it be completely as it is...ask nothing of it...just bare witness to it...sense it directly. You may notice in that moment a deep sense of spaciousness and peace...a sense of slowing down and balance. These qualities are always there, at the core, but are obscured and covered over by agenda, by a need for it to be otherwise...in other words, by a lack of love.
And something I have found to be so incredible is that when we are truly loving something, we are free of it, and we are allowing it to be free simultaneously. And when this is happening, we actually have a greater availability to play within this world, within our experience. In our love, we are at once less bound by the world, and yet deeper in it. This is definitely one of those spiritual paradoxes.
Of course, this is my insight coming from my own experience...I fully invite you to try this out, and arrive at your own conclusions. Please feel free...
In love,
Eka
1 comment:
Beautiful words!
For me as a woman, love is the essence of union, something we desperately need in our world of separatism.
Love is tender and nurturing, our earth Gaia needs this. Our children do too.
In the spaciousness of love there is the understanding that everything is perfect the way it is, probably the most difficult to achieve and where we stumble and fall frequently, I know I do :-) When I close down life becomes unbearable, maybe I should fall in love with my suffering too!
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