Loving-Kindness

[Amin C]

 

 

Loving-Kindness

Interestingly enough, there is a scientific basis for Jesus Christ’s (Mowla of his time) admonition to bless and love our enemies. On the level of energy, the lower feelings have a lower vibration frequency and lower power. When we are in lower energy state such as anger, hate, violence, guilt, jealousy or any other negative feelings, we are psychically vulnerable to the other person. In contrast, forgiveness, gratitude, and loving-kindness have a much higher energy vibration and much greater power. When we shift out of a lower to a higher energy pattern, we create a protective shield on the energetic level, as it were, and we can no longer be psychically vulnerable to that other person.

When we are in a state of anger, for instance, we are vulnerable to the energy depletion brought about by the other person’s counter-anger. Paradoxically, if we really want to affect other people, then we ought to really love them. Then, their anger at us will boomerang back upon them with no effect upon us! This was the wisdom of the Buddha’s statement in the Dhammapada, “Hate is not conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by love. This is an eternal law.”

Special quote: “Our feelings and thoughts always have an effect on other persons and affect our relationships whether these thoughts or feelings are verbalized, expressed or not.” (Letting Go, pg 258)

Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender: Ch. 18, pg. 260-261

Beliefs are the Determinant of What One Experiences

Beliefs are the determinant of what one experiences. There are no external ‘causes’. One discovers the secret payoffs that are obtained from unconscious secret projections. One’s underlying programs can be discovered by simply writing down one’s litany of grievances and woes and then merely turning them around into their opposites.

“People hate me” stems from one’s own inner hatreds. “People don’t care about me” stems from one’s narcissistic absorption with one’s happiness and gain instead of that of others. “I don’t get enough love” stems from not giving love to others. “People are rude to me” stems from lack of cordiality to others. “People are jealous of me” arises from inner jealousy of others. Thus, if we take responsibility for being the author of our world, we come close to its source where we can correct it. By being loving towards others, we discover that we are surrounded by love and lovingness. When we unreservedly support life without expecting gain, life supports us in return. When we abandon gain as a motive, life responds with unexpected generosity. When we perceive in this way, the miraculous begins to appear in the life of every dedicated spiritual aspirant. 

I – Reality and Subjectivity: Ch. 2, Pg 22, Q: “What is an ‘advanced seeker’?”

Place Faith and Trust in the Love of God…

The core of all the great spiritual teachings and teachers can be surmised in a few simple paragraphs:

Choose to be easygoing, benign, forgiving, compassionate, and unconditionally loving towards all life in all its expressions, without exception, including oneself. Focus on unselfish service and the giving of love, consideration, and respect to all creatures.

Avoid negativity and the desire for worldliness and its greed for pleasure and possessions. Forego opinionating, the judgment of right versus wrong, the vanity of being ‘right’, and the trap of righteousness.

Seek to understand rather than to condemn.  Venerate the teachers of these basic principles and ignore all others. Apply these principles to one’s view of oneself as well as of others. Trust in the love, mercy, infinite wisdom, and compassion of Divinity that sees through all human error, limitation, and frailty. Place faith and trust in the love of God who is all-forgiving, and understand that condemnation and fear of judgment stem from the ego. Like the sun, the love of God shines equally on all.

The Eye of the “I”: Ch. 5, Simplicity, pg. 65

   

  

Best Wishes, Kind Regards & Ya Ali Madad &

   السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ

(As-salāmu ʿalaykum)

 

Amin Chunara