We think of Love as an emotion we feel yet that emotion is but a form of expression of Love. What I call Love is the primal force and energy of the Universe.
It is the source and cause of all that is. It is Life. It is all-knowing. It is ever-present. It is all-powerful. It cannot be destroyed. It cannot be damaged and it cannot be enhanced. In the Buddhist tradition, it is described as Unsurpassable, Indestructible and Un-enhance-able. It is variously known as God, Light, the Unconditioned, the Uncaused, Infinite Intelligence, Truth, the All. I use all these words interchangeably.
Without Love (or Life), there is nothing. Now can we experience Love? We can and we do, all the time, on some level. It is the background to all our life experiences but like most backgrounds, it is obscured from our conscious mind and our conscious attention by the shadow that our conditioned mind creates when it stands in the path of Love.
In this shadow and on this dim stage with its mesmerizing theatrical effects ad rehearsed actors and scripts, we get a very distorted yet compelling story which we call ‘Life’. Obscured from the Light of Love, we piece together a story of who and what we are which is anything but true.
We have adapted so well to the unreal that we have forgotten the real and we avoid and deny it
But we have, as a human species, become so adapted to this shadow play, this dim theatre of dark and light, of good and evil, of right and wrong and so much else, that their effects and their stories have become necessary and inevitable. And, sadly, what is true, what is enduring, what is timeless, what is without beginning and without ending, what is life itself has become strange, alien, unnatural, even frightening. We have adapted so well to the unreal that we have forgotten the real and we avoid and deny it.
We claim we can tell the difference between the means and the end but we often don’t. Our amnesic, conditioned minds won’t let us remember the real, the true.
But the real IS Love. It is the love we deeply and relentlessly seek but mostly in the wrong places and in the wrong ways. Money, status, sex, addictions of all sorts parade themselves as purveyors of truth, of Love. We claim we can tell the difference between the means and the end but we often don’t. Our amnesic, conditioned minds won’t let us remember the real, the true.
And yet, Love, Life, Infinite Intelligence, the All, the Uncaused, the Unconditioned is right here, right now and in every here and in every now. It is never not here and never not now. When we allow ourselves to sit still, to leave the theater, if only briefly, or simply see the elements of the performance without engaging in their story, we are able to experience the real, the true, the All. We are able to experience Love.
Why don’t we? Why don’t we allow ourselves for a few minutes each day to experience true Love. No, it won’t cause you to disengage with the theatre. On the contrary, it will allow you to taste the length and the breadth and the height and the endlessness and the possibility of what and who you truly are, of what and who life truly is so that the theatre now becomes an authentic and free expression of all of that.
You bring more and more of your true, powerful, infinite nature to the theater and you experience more of another’s true, powerful and infinite nature. In other words, you are more available and free and this allows another to be more available and free.
On the deepest level of your being, at its very core, you know this is true. You could go on refusing to yield to this ultimate truth. But why would you?
Your task is not to seek love but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it – A Course In Miracles
I know, the theater is compelling, addictive, enslaving. I know you feel afraid to leave it, to shift your focus elsewhere, to the background, to the unscripted. And yet, like me, you must surely know that yielding to the falsehood of the theater, to its countless stories is what keeps you from experiencing the real, the free, the powerful, the effortless, the peaceful, the joyous. Yes, the only thing that truly exists – Love,
Yield to it.
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