We’ve
learned to equate the word love with closeness of relationship between two or
more people. Sometimes we also apply it to our powerful attraction towards and
object or a specific function, such as playing an instrument or even playing
tennis. Yet, love is none of these.
Most women, even
mothers, do not realize that even their feelings towards their own child are
generated at hormonal level. Sometimes those slip and the opposite effect takes
place. Hence, PPD, the postpartum depression, which affects up
to 20% of all women giving birth.
As for
mother’s seeming need to look after her child, the same is true, of course, of
all the other animals. The maternal and paternal emotions are characteristic of
the vast majority of animal kingdom. They are necessary for the survival of the
species. Attachment is not love. Love is free.
So what of
love?
Love is a
byproduct of our intuitive though subliminal awareness that we are all ONE.
That is the only reason why we are implored to “love our enemies.” By killing
them we kill part of our own self. We diminish ourselves. We become less than
what we could be. Ultimately veterans coming back from the front lines for many
years suffer post traumatic stress
disorder. In a way, they’d committed partial suicides over a number of
years.
One cannot
kill another without killing parts of who we are.
And what
might that be?
We cannot
kill that which is immortal, but we can terminate its manifestation. Such
problems reach beyond any religion that man created trying to understand the
teaching of a number of Great Masters. Lao Tzu, Krishna, Buddha, Socrates,
Yeshûa… they all tried to convey this concept to us. Until today, they have not
succeeded.
Why? Because
we think that our life is more important than somebody else’s. We continue to
kill, which is the antithesis of love.
Ultimately
the power of One is the realization that at the depth of our consciousness we
are all a Single Entity. This alone is love—the expression of Singularity. A single
Soul, a single Mind, a single universe with multiplicity of expressions. With
all the past and all the future. In that instant of realization we are
immortal, and our power is also infinite, though, strangely enough, it only
seems to work for the good of All. In that instant of eternity, we cannot tell
the difference between “us and them”. In that moment we are ONE.
If we take
anyone’s life, one day, sooner or later, the balance will be restored. Such
enigmas are discussed in my Beyond Religion series of essays. If they interest
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