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.
Thoughts of Awakening # 172
There is no need to worry,
because that which is true
is true forever.
Whenever you feel the need to worry,
you have forgotten
that the truth is true,
and you have forgotten
that what is true
is you.
You are beyond your worries
and beyond the problems
that seem to plague you now.
Knowing you is peace.
Knowing you is the answer you seek.
~From our Holy Spirit
Homework for this week
- Practice daily meditation for 30-60 minutes each day.
- Practice the “Loving All” Method.
- Thoughts of Awakening, 169-175
- Read NTI 1 Corinthians 10-16
- The reading shared on Tuesday night was from The Transparency of Things by Rupert Spira, 185-187, The Here and Now of Presence
- Exercise: This week we have two games. The first is to tune into the sense of hereness. Notice that it doesn’t change no matter where you are. You’re always here. That’s consciousness.
The second is everything is happening now. Even thoughts about the past or the future are happening now. The now is stable and constant. Time happens in the now. Notice it’s always now. No matter when you notice, it’s always now. The same now.
The now and the here and consciousness are all the same thing. It is what you are. That’s why it is always here and now.
