Yesterday’s tip ended with:
You do not want Love different than it is, for as it is is Love, and Love is all you truly want.
What is Love?
There are 21 definitions of “love” on dictionary.com, and none of those definitions define “Love” as it is meant when it refers to reality.
The reason none of the definitions accurately define Love is because nearly all of the definitions in the dictionary are based on duality, the love of one for another, whether that is the love for another person or another thing. The only exception is the definition of “love” as it is used in tennis. In that case, love is “a score of zero; nothing.” Interestingly, that definition comes closest to Love.
The best way to define Love is:
Openness or the all-inclusive nature of emptiness.
Its opposites are judgment and division.
People often ask, “Why does God allow…?” as if there are some circumstances that God should reject.
Today’s reading says:
The reason for all things is Love.
Or said another way, God is the openness or the emptiness that enables and allows all things. As emptiness, it is incapable of rejection. It is as the Tao Te Ching says in verse 11:
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
Emptiness does not reject or obstruct anything.
Emptiness enables and allows all things.
Love enables and allows all things.
The mind judges and divides. The mind cannot know Love.
Only emptiness can know Love. Only emptiness knows emptiness. If it is not empty, it is not Love.
The ego may suggest that emptiness is an uninteresting neutrality—a kind of “blah.” That is not true, which is why emptiness is called Love. However, to know Love you must become Love. Only through the direct experience of being it can you know it.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. …
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (From 1 John 4:7-16)
Love is as the Tao Te Ching describes the master in verse 12:
His heart is open as the sky.
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