Monday, April 22, 2013

Sacred Love - A Search for Something Better

Client. "I left this one because it wasn't right, and I am going to that one, because that is what I deserve. A wonderful, powerful, motivational mantra. I left where it wasn't right for me, and I am going to where it is."
Response
Two questions spring to mind. First, were you a victim in the first one? Because it sounds like it. He did this and I didn't like it. There is a split here between the doer and the done to. The victor and the victim. He did this and I left. I was not the cause of his behaviour, I was at the affect of it. Running away from a situation looks and sounds empowering because it relieves us of pain, and gains us a sense of self determination. This is totally admirable. But really, this is disempowering, absolutely soul destroying logic.
Why?
Three reasons
1. You've made a choice to leave based on your ego. And this always fails you.
2. You've given up the deepest power Nature gave any human. The power of thought.
3. You've empowered the cause of your problems. Your judgements - delusions.
The second question that springs to mind is the question of where are you going? You have made a brave choice, to step away from the pain and drama of this man, but you must confess that you can't judge something unless you are comparing it.
This comparison usually comes from books, seminars, religions, and self made judgements (which are really the judgements that your mother or father had). So you have a "not good" and a "good". You might even call this your intuition, or following your inner guide, but frankly, few people would recognise such ambivalence. For the majority of us, ley people, we empower emotions and inner feelings in the name of spiritual guidance. Few people sit in a cave long enough to hear the inner call. This requires a stillness that everyday life, relationship and work prevent.
I honour your choices. But I doubt the authenticity of them. I think you have run away from where you are meant to be, and run toward where you would like to be. An addiction to somewhere else. I'd be more inclined to question the valence of the somewhere else and really see that it's a bull dust ambition. A magic castle.
Finally, I want to share something few people know and those who do are sworn to secrecy on keeping it from those who are not ready. So, I guess if you've read this far, you are ready to hear it. "the ultimate outcome of life is disappointment" - if you can meditate on this and warm to it, really you'll understand why we are always running. We fear that truth.
Love requires no action. It is independent of circumstance. Love is not about people. Love is nothing, but everything. Love is not a place to run to, or run away from. IT is everything. Nowhere is without love. Nowhere is without the duality of love. Support and challenge is the duality of love. Running is actually an attempt to escape from love. Running toward something is an attempt to split love in half. Support without challenge. It's a lie. And the only outcome of that pursuit, is disappointment.

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