This of course is the number one question searched on Google beginning with ‘What…’ The answer to this question is related to the answer I gave to the previous post’s question and it’s also the reason why I’m admittedly a hypocrite.
I said before that the person within you who is capable of observing yourself observing is God. Okay. No biggee. Sounds cool. Whatever. You can ‘get it’ for a moment, but then you check out some other blog or eat a sandwich or get back to work. Then the feeling is gone. This idea that you are God flees.
But love is what occurs when actions in one’s life are made from this deeply observant mind– when you stay in the feeling as you move from epiphany to… sandwich. When you can stay in that fully aware zone and not let things get to you, get to your ego, or affect you emotionally then you start existing from a place of pure love. All actions become as loved as any other. You don’t do something in order to get something else. See The Contemplator’s lastest for a great technique on this.
But, even as I say these enlightened words, I am also my ego. I am writing a blog because I want people to read it. I titled my last two posts as top-searched questions because I have an ego desire to have people find my words. Not all of me is writing these words as an end in itself. My desire to inform and inspire people, to tell them what god and love is comes from a simultaneously divine as well as desirous place. I don’t deny it because they can not be separated.
I am just a guy. I drove to the store today to get lettuce and beer. But I am also God. My mind is the the mind of God. I can speak words that will change the lives of others and I can also tell my daughter 23 times to pick up her crayons to little effect. Divinity and ignorance coexist in me as they do in all of us.
Hypocrisy in Latin literally means to pretend, to play-act. So in order to give you divine words, I am a mortal play-acting as the God within me. And in order to start a blog and open my laptop everyday I, as a Divine entity, have to pretend that I am a mortal.
What it comes down to is choice. Do you choose to view the world as a the Divinity you are or as the organism you are?
Is anybody still with me here? I am. I am with me and this is all that matters.
That was cute
Love is what most people desire. God is Love. But i must say i am faaaaaaar faaaar away from being in that “love zone” thing you were talking about– it being constant.
Well good luck with it
Ah Precious, this is merely a choice you are making. How can you be far away from something that is you at all times? Notice how things to do with love are related to “heart.” Well, your heart is the part of you that is always working, always pumping blood, even when you’re asleep. That is the basis of unconditional love. See the connection? Your brain is the thing that believes it is ‘faaaaar away.’ But your heart is about 2 feet from your brain. So close!
Of course, I too slip away from loving every second of every day, but it’s only in choosing to believe that I can get better at it every day that I will be better, will be acting from a place of love.
Thanks for your comment.
I’m with you. The tradition insists that there is in each of us both the True Self (Emerson called it “the oversoul”—which sustains our being— and the False Self or ego—which thinks it supports our being.
The ego keeps wanting and needing and planning and trying; but the one thing it can’t see is that the oversoul is already there, right where everything is fine.
Writing can be a product of the ego, if it comes from a need for attention, approval, connection, etc. Or it can be a pure emanation of the oversoul if it is produces, as a great artist produces, just for the sake of creating something beautiful.
What is the state of the Sage? Here is a description from the Tao Te Ching, No. 20, as translated by Stephen Mitchell:
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Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference between success and failure?
Must you value what others value,
avoid what others avoid?
How ridiculous!
Other people are excited,
as though they were at a parade.
I alone don’t care,
I alone am expressionless,
like an infant before it can smile.
Other people have what they need;
I alone possess nothing.
I alone drift about,
like someone without a home.
I am like an idiot, my mind is so empty.
Other people are bright;
I alone am dark.
Other people are sharp;
I alone am dull.
Other people have a purpose;
I alone don’t know.
I drift like a wave on the ocean,
I blow as aimless as the wind.
I am different from ordinary people.
I drink from the Great Mother’s breasts.
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Can we attain this? Our ego cannot, because it cannot see that we are already this. If we can trick it into stepping aside, though, perhaps the True Self can shine forth.