What is love?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by bigbadbaz, Jul 24, 2007.

  1. Of course you are divine. It the only true fact about you.

    Consider then what you are giving up to achieve a "romantic love".

    Never mind that the Romans seemed to crucify me.

    Your "love" relationships are invitations to screw yourselves royally.

    They say that the brain is the largest sex organ. What a joke. What they really mean is the mind is the largest sex organ, since the body is an out picturing of mind.

    There isn't anything the body feels except it is sent a message from the mind.

    Worse, the body is sent messages to feel this or that, while the mind reports back to itself what it supposedly feels.

    The fact is, all of this can be accomplished without a body, because the body is actually nothing but a self-deception device.

    It get's worse. This mind allows you only so much pleasure, for which it sends the body seeking it's whole life. And when the mind is finished with the body, it kills it.

    And while you have pleasure, you must limit it to one "other" mind unless you are some kind of porn star or promiscuous prophet.

    This same mind that allows you these small crumbs of pleasure, is also the same mind that let's the body feel pain. Once again, it is not the body that feels pain, for it feels nothing. It is always the mind hiding it's activity through the body that allows you to feel pain.

    So now you are in a catch-22. If you think a body can feel pleasure, you are now completely vulnerable to pain.

    And each of these messages reinforce the idea that the body is real, and that it is the thing that feels these things.

    And in this way, the mind that plays these tricks on you is able to keep the world turning in favor of it own agenda.

    It wants to kill you.

    All else is just the set-up. For if it did not give you a body and some time to fatten it up, how could it slaughter you?

    The "romantic relationship" is this minds ace-in-the-hole. It is primarily what the world seeks endlessly for, thus keeping it turning. For it blinds you to reality, and keeps you just drunk enough that you do not notice you are hanging on a cross!

    It is actually a hate relationship because the rest of the universe is excluded. It's not different than a high school clique. It's just another way to express your preferences for separation.

    In Heaven, your relationships are with the universe as there are no blocks to perfect communication at all.

    It gets better.

    It is this same mind that has relationship with all minds simultaneously, that you are using to have one very limited relationship in which it is very difficult to communicate.

    So you've been duped out of your inheritance for a very small bowl of rice pudding. And it's not even real!

    And you know it!

    That is why you always feel "incomplete", and always seeking. It's because you are incomplete without attending to your reality as an indispensable part of Heaven.

    When you no longer believe you can get anything from a body, you will open your mind to full communication with the rest of creation.

    For the body is for separation, not for joining. It's "joining" is merely a consolation prize for all those who would buy into the idea of separation.

    The body is a gift, like a Trojan horse.

    It stands for conflict, and a conflicted mind cannot keep a body "alive"...as if it ever was.

    The body no more dies than it can feel. It does nothing. Of itself, it is neither corruptible or incorruptible. It is nothing. What is a symbol?

    Those who fear death see not how often and how loudly they call for it, "romantic relationship" notwithstanding. For it is death that comes to save you from communication when you are preferring to have a lack of communication through bodies.

    Yet the retreat to death is not the end of conflict. You'll be back but to die again.

    The fear of death will go as its appeal is yielded to love's real attraction. I mean real love.

    What would you see without the fear of death? What would you feel and think if death held no attraction for you?

    Very simply, you would remember your Father.

    A romantic relationship is simply a secret alliance to agree to never let the fear of God be lifted so that you never return home.

    The appeal of death is lost forever as love's attraction stirs and calls to you.

    And each obstacle to love is surmounted by the power of the attraction of what lies beyond.

    The exaltation of the body is given up in favor of the spirit, which you love as could never love the body.

    In this world, you can use what I call a "holy relationship" to return home to spirit.

    In such a relationship, the body is as little use to you as it is to your partner. For minds need not the body to communicate.

    The sight that sees the body has no use which serves the purpose of a holy relationship.

    In such relationships, you aim to allow "holy instants" to come to you. These instants are timeless moments when you see the beauty of your partner without a body on, so-to-speak.

    The naked truth is that by seeing a body, you are giving up a vision of grandeur that is so compelling, you can scarcely keep from falling to your knees to worship. And yet, what you see is equal to your true self. And in seeing this way, you begin to understand what you are.

    The body is the ego's idol. It is the belief in crazy ideas and guilt made flesh and then projected outward. This produces what seems to be a wall of flesh around the mind, keeping it prisoner in a tiny spot of space and time, beholden unto death, and given but an instant in which to sigh and grieve and die in honor of its master, abating your reality.

    And this unholy instant seems to be life; and instant of despair, a tiny island of dry sand, bereft of water and set uncertainly upon oblivion.

    Here does the Son of God stop briefly by, to offer his devotion to death's idols and then pass on. And here he is more dead than living. And yet it is here he makes his choice again between idolatry and love. Here it is given him to choose to spend this instant paying tribute to the body, or let himself be given freedom from it. Here he can accept the holy instant, offered him to replace the unholy one he chose before. And here he can learn relationships are his salvation, and not his doom.

    Jesus
     
    #21     Jul 25, 2007
  2. Love's meaning is obscure to anyone who thinks that love can change.

    He does not see that changing love must be impossible.

    And so he thinks he can love at times, and hate at other times. He also thinks love can be bestowed on one, and withheld from others.

    That would be like me saying I loved everyone here except ratboy. :)

    To believe these things of love is not to understand it. If it could make such distinctions, it would have to judge between the righteous and the sinner, and perceive the Son of God in separate parts.

    Love cannot judge. It is one, and looks on all as one. It's meaning lies in oneness. And it must elude the mind that thinks of it as partial or in part.

    Because you are everything, you cannot leave a part of yourself outside your love if you would know your Self.

    The world then, is the incorrect answer to the question, "What am I?"

    It is the thought of yourself as partial, parted, and categorized.

    Since you are love, the world must not love. And it holds nothing that you need or can use in any way, nor anything that can give you joy.

    Believe this thought and you are saved from years of misery, from countless disappointments, and from hopes that turn to bitter ashes of despair.

    Jesus
     
    #22     Jul 27, 2007