Remember when your child, your nephew, your pet was a baby? Remember how much love and compassion you felt for that life? The baby cried, the dog had an accident, and there was no blame. Sure, you may have been thoroughly inconvenienced and angry and even thought wretched thoughts, but you "knew" it was not that baby or animal's fault.
What would it be like to love everyone with this tone? To see everyone with that much tenderness? To forgive everyone for being involved in situations where you feel upset? To be responsible for your own happiness rather than ask someone else to be?
Mind-blowing. Transformative. Blissful.
Love makes teachers great,
lawyers fair,
bankers wise,
surgeons precise.
Love makes students passionate,
leaders humble,
politicians honest,
police officers kind.
Everything is Enriched by Love
There is nothing beyond the influence of Loving Awareness. If you're in a tight spot
- a job that feels like drudgery,
- a relationship that feels like imprisonment or
- a situation that feels lonely,
practice saying the mantra "I am the Loving Awareness of the situation and the feelings and thinking that accompany the situation":
- I am the loving awareness of being bored to tears with my job
- I am the loving awareness of being in a relationship that feels restrictive
- I am the loving awareness of feeling lonely when I spend time with myself
Giving the Practice a Chance.
Yes, make plans to change your job, leave the relationship, spend time with people who celebrate you, but don't skip being loving awareness. Otherwise, you are simply "fixing yourself up" again. You don't need any fixing up.
(Remember? You are the Loving Awareness of the thought - unconscious or conscious - of fixing yourself up.)
Being the Loving Awareness of your tight spot will illuminate your path to release, to liberation, to opening, to flow.
And, you don't have to feel loving. You don't have to feel all Mother Theresa for the person or situation. You might gag when you think of their name. You might secretly wish that they would experience public humiliation. No problem. Practice saying the mantra "I am the loving awareness of the thinking that I would delight in so and so being publicly humiliated." Or you might feel so much resentment for that person that you think to yourself, "I am a total phony to pretend like I have one morsel of compassion for so and so." No problem. Practicing saying the mantra, "I am the loving awareness of the thinking that I am a total phony to pretend like I have one morsel of compassion for so and so."
Feel what happens next.
Give the practice a chance. You deserve it. The world can use it. You make a powerful difference.
Be Love Now
In my opinion, Ram Dass has some of the most accessible teachings on Love. Being Love describes his practice of looking at a picture of a politician with whom he intensely disagrees every morning as a way of reminding himself to keep opening his heart.
Whose face or name would you look at to remind you to keep dancing?
Your Loving Awareness transforms pain to light. This affects everyone on the planet.
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