Vince Grace
Love Is Natural
We also confuse love with objects or happenings that are pleasing. This where we say, “I love it”, “I love that”. Pleasurable things or happenings are not love. They are just as temporary as the objects, happenings or as the feeling we would get from them. An example being when we receive a gift on our birthday. We have the appearance of loving or being loved. What happenings if we didn’t receive a gift. Would we be not loving and unloved? Which feeling were we first?
When we demonstrate anger, we are already angry. In this case the gift would be a trigger for going either way. So, in this case, love is not our condition as in the position of love it wouldn’t matter.
We also anticipate and premeditate reactions of anger or love. An example, “if I don’t get that gift I want I will be furious”, If what I asked is not done…look out”. This is not sitting in the position of love. It is contractual and says, “I will be loving if everything goes my way”. In this example we create our own triggers to demonstrate an angry position. Well, in this case, anger is the position from the beginning. It seemed to me that I could be using an activity to satisfy quite a few issues relating to ego in the name of love.
Now, to mention, we all have moments where we are in tune or resonate with consciousness. We all have moments of the true feeling of love in our lives that allow us to experience the peace of consciousness. Everyone experiences this. Just as everything has a moment of synchronization within the universe, we also have moments that we synchronize with consciousness (this is actually noticeable). This will produce a loving and generally a good feeling. In this moment we receive a taste of our natural condition of/in consciousness. Although it is a moment or in fact for a brief moment that we experience this as we cannot remain in this condition from our current condition or point of view.
So while we think this is who we are when in fact it is who we are. We then try to replicate this good feeling from here instead of pursing the source of it. We look for easy, which almost never is the easy way.
Love only has one quality-love. Love only depends on one thing-love. Love only requires one condition-love. The examples mentioned above are what love is not and for one good reason, we don’t want to love. There is a path to consciousness, but guess why we do not take it, we don’t want to. We are too mindful and as a result would rather find bodily comforts for our entire life. I enjoy bodily comforts as well. We can do both as long as the bodily comforts are secondary. The state of consciousness must be primary to all other activities and all other activities will be revealed as such. This place too as a whole is secondary to consciousness. Consciousness precedes all point of views, dimensions, plains or conditions. This will be and is our natural state or condition. Then we will not only enjoy all the bodily comforts here, our consistent habitual need to search for happiness or love will become unnecessary as we will be in the state or condition of happiness or love. This does not mean we walk around floating on clouds either as this is not and will not be the case and is just a story from somewhere. There is nothing in the clouds but clouds as there is as much consciousness in the clouds as there is in us.
The Approach
We have quite a bit of ancient literature where love is described as something that is not of the mind, but of the body. So we have sayings such as “listen to your heart”. This is in fact quite accurate, but misunderstood. The body is closer (to say) to consciousness than the mind is. We cannot reach consciousness with the mind as this reaching to say is a bodily event.
Love is something we will not do voluntarily or unconditionally in our current state. Within this state we defined love with the activity of attachment, addiction and contractual agreements. Usually, we want something in return, known or unknown.
Love is not the pursuit of or attainable through an outside object, person, desire, pleasure, comfort or a moment in time. Love is not an attachment or an addiction. Love is a neutral place. Love is a state of being which is non judgemental and non changing through outside influence. Love is an awareness of life and its purpose and there is nothing simple about it. Love is a condition and a state that we must attain, and it must start with us.
Love through consciousness is wisdom which does not lack intelligence.
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