Introduction
This statement from my marvellous missionary, “pain comes
from the loss of a value” can be used to help us understand a lot about our
pain.
It creates an opening within us, through which we can see
the value that has been lost and therefore the cause of the pain.
Case of Love Lost
In this very typical case when another stops loving us or
loves us less, we feel pain. We feel pain because we perceive the loss of this
love. It may also be true that the person does not love us anymore or loves us
less and they may even honestly say that…
Having not gone deeper into inquiry, it seems from all angles
that this is the cause, the other loves us less or not at all and so
they are the cause of our pain. This makes fertile ground for resentment and as
soon as we blame the other in our mind the seed of resentment has been sown and
the pain deepens, and he ugly thorny weed of resentment grows.
Real Cause of the Pain
However, this is not the real cause of our pain. If we go
deeper within that opening, we will find a feeling that feels: “that we have
lost something, that a piece of our Being it almost feels, has been dissolved,
and that the love we have within us has been lost”. We feel less, we even feel
like we are in mourning; that we are grieving over the loss of the love within
us.
The Perception
So it is the perception (our perception, not theirs) that our love has been lost that is
causing the pain.! Now, we must ask how can this perception be true? I ask how
can another enter our Being and take away a part of it? How can it be done? If
we earnestly try to answer this, we will discover that it can only be done by
us (How can a person get into your Being? Do you know how? Have you ever done
it to another? We don’t know how, none of us know how! If we think we did, it
was them that did it on themselves! It can't be one!). But it really feels like it has been done, and it has in some way by ourselves and the way it is (that apparently taking
away a piece of our Being) done by us is that we ignore a reality within us,
and we then believe this ignorance to be true.
What We Forget
In this case of the perceived loss of love within us, we
forget that we are love, that our Being is love and that love can not be lost!
It is always there, though buried by our ignorance of not realising this.
It makes sense that we don’t realise this, that we are love,
because we think we have done so many bad things in life and that we don’t deserve to be
love or that we are not love or can not be love, because otherwise we would be
kinder and more loving etc. and we are not. The major one though, is the thought the we have always
seen love as “when you love me I love you” and “when I extend my love you
reply” etc. We have always seen love as being evoked from outside from having
received love or having it returned. But he truth is that it dwells within, it
dwells in our Being and springs from there. It is our ignorance of this that is
the big problem!
Realise and Evoke the Love from Within
What we need to do is to practice evoking that love from
within. To teach ourselves that it is really something that lives inside of us and is part of our Being!
See all the things that you love, the people, the animals,
the plants, the elements, the activities, the good things that you have done
for others and yourself. The good things that you do are all manifestations or proofs of
that love. The way you kindly spoke to someone etc., a kind smile or gesture are all valid. If you find it hard to see
these things look deeper and further into your present and past, or start giving some small
things to people, start with a smile and see show yourself there is love within you.
Evoke your natural love, become aware of it, make yourself to realise that we have it, it is there and we are that, and so then we may ask
ourselves “Where then is the loss?”. We are complete. We were complete before
we met the person, during and after, we are complete in our Being now and so
love will come to us again. That is very important to realise that you are
complete, nothing has been lost within you. Go out there and love in this new
dignified way!
Inner Love
Believe in the love that you have realised that comes from
within, because it is the true one, it is the one that is there after we have been insulted or is the one that makes us to bounce back into the
relationship after we have been insulted, offended, hurt, let down, rejected
etc. This is love that the Christ spoke of when he said “turn the other cheek”
and it is the love which Master Samael teaches that to crystallise the Second
Logos (The Christic force) we need to be able to transform the negative
impressions of others by taking their negative manifestations with joy. This is
the love that we all want and it is the love that frees. The ignorance of love living within our Being enslaves, attaches and disempowers.
End (1193).
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