1. Love Cancels Religion
February 21, 2013
Love is better than any religion! No, not puppy love or ʻlove with stringsʼ, but a
real, deep, authentic love. Just because someone can shoot a basketball,
doesnʼt mean they can be a professional player. The majority experience some
degree of love, even if itʼs with their dog or cats. All wives or husbands,
boyfriends or girlfriends are quick to acknowledge love for their partner. Love is
an easy emotion to obtain, and yet fizzle to a memory as well as occasional
spurts of feeling. Thatʼs not the love that cancels attachment to any religion. Of course, the mind
may cancel religion, most likely before itʼs ʻembeddedʼ.
My driver this morning mentioned his brother called him last night, and said it was -50º with
windchill at his home in Minnesota. I asked if he had been to our ʻparadiseʼ town?
ʻA few timesʼ, he said. My question was then ʻwhy doesnʼt he move out of there to at least
someplace betterʼ? He said that his wife was too attached to her family (30 years
married). Itʼs the same thing with religion, once ʻembeddedʼ there is little
hope to question the ʻreligionʼ, and seek better answers which are
always rationalized away. The fear of the ʻunknownʼ often gives birth to
uncomfortable complacency. This is ʻYOUR LIFE RIGHT NOWʼ! Better
options start with seeking them!
My clear experience is that when love with another rises to a peak
where the ʻfalseʼ you is ʻgoneʼ, and both are of one mind and heart,
there is a permanent change. Part of that change is to see that you, and
your experiences are focused on the highest expression especially the emotional,
spiritual, and general being. In that state, if you had been attached to a religion, it
disappears. You become the ʻvehicleʼ for a religiousness that is apart from anyone
elseʼs words, call it perhaps a ʻspiritual highʼ.
Itʼs because so many people don't actually know how to put the spiritual theory into practice as
a human being - its stays in their head, and they pretend to practice it! As it says in the Gita -
Action should lead to wisdom...the action, the practice, then actually doing that, people pretend
at most of the time because the real practice of it is difficult to apply in physical form.
Compassion in action is more valuable than in preaching
There are two paths to an enlightened consciousness. One path is through meditation, the other
through love, or what I call ʻlovitationʼ. Either path rarely reaches itʼs peaks, as the ʻseekerʼ
settles into an ʻego satisfactionʼ that falls short only leaving them with glimpses of what could be.
It is not possible to experience the bliss and joy of the showerings of meditation, or deep love if
attached to ANYTHING, and that includes ʻideologies or religionʼ. Before the real can be seen,
the false needs to be ʻlet goʼ of. To ʻseeʼ is arduous judging from the billions who ʻlock stepʼ to
religions. Seek to be in your heart, and with awareness as well as ʻdiscernmentʼ to climb out of
ʻprogrammingʼ. Itʼs a breeze once you reach the level of ʻintelligenceʼ!
! Yesss Self Love Center
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