| Subject: Re: "Inability to Love" |
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JP
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Date Posted: 16:39:26 06/27/02 Thu
In reply to:
Kate
's message, ""Inability to Love"" on 13:56:14 06/25/02 Tue
Empty-handed simplicity = unconditional receptivity = unconditional generosity, which removes the mask and restores the ability to love. Once the mask is removed, primal love can directly "touch" the shadow-causing solidity of terror. As a result of this primal "love-touch", terror dissipates. Serenity is then allowed to come forth in its fullness, based on the fundamental principle of empty-handed simplicity. What exposes and dissipates the inability to love? Empty-handed simplicity. What brings about the transmutation of terror and restores the flow of life? Empty-handed simplicity. We've come full circle. Simple, eh? Living from the perspective of empty-handed simplicity is, well, not simple. It's ridiculously hard for most people, particularly if they're used to grasping and clinging as a way of living.
Or, we could say that primal love=empty handed simplicity=unconditional receptivity=unconditional generosity=unmasking=the elimination of terror=serenity. Love is serenity and everything in between. All we need to be is love. To be love or not to be love, this is the question. Or is the question, to be love AND not to be love simultaneously? Duh.
Anyway, all of this air-hockey is just a few perspectives in an infinite sea of perspectives. I suspect there are no right or wrong answers. In fact there may not be any answers at all. Once we realize that there aren't any real answers, the questions naturally come to an end. Game over.
Trying to figure it out is the booby prize. Chop wood, carry water. Pick up the dog poop, mow the lawn and water the flowers. Life flows on and on and on, as is - or isn't - in serenity - or not. So it goes.
Namaste
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