We all dream of personal love. Could this be the selfishness of the world infringing on the impersonal love drawing couples together, each thinking that once the dream is realised, the other will also be happy? Have you noticed how the honeymoon seldom lasts, the test of time mostly always exposing the selfishness behind each personal dream? When the cracks appear in the relationship, we blame the other while failing to look at our own limited understanding. This limitation is in personalizing love, in other words, taking love as a personal feeling, whereas the impersonal love bringing us together is not comparable in any way to feelings. Might the higher purpose of impersonal love be to smash this wretched personification, to free us from attachment to our worlds of misery? Could this be the enactment in the quarrelling and misunderstandings arising between couples once the honeymoon is over? Have you noticed how in our trying to come together we carry with us our hidden baskets of pain and disappointments from previous relationships? Instead of waking up to the fact, we use our personal dream of love - the recurring replay of the old story - as a means for escaping from our wretchedness. We all know there can be no escape in denial. Surely, the only way out of the mess is seeing it exactly as it is, which means letting go of the personal dream. But this can only happen when reality is seen. The couple at this point of vision in a relationship, rather than applying further patchwork to their shattering dreams, accept reality by allowing impersonal love complete the job. For the rare few, this involves going through the numbing following the death-blow to the personal dream. Logically, when the dust settles, this is followed by the couple either coming together in impersonal love or parting their ways in service to the same impersonal love. Whenever we are in the warring stages of a relationship, we are given the opportunity for seeing what’s happening. Can both be courageous enough to surrender their personal stories? Obviously, this means letting go of the past, of all those events, dreams and expectations having landed us here. When I see the higher purpose of love bringing me to heel, my heart naturally fills with gratitude for all the pain it takes to awaken me from the wretchedness of my world. This being so, transcendence can only happen by allowing impersonal love be heard.
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So what is my problem? What is occupying my mind 24/7? When I look at it for a moment without evaluation, I might be able to see what’s going on. Whatever my problem might be, it has little importance in the larger picture of my life. This might sound crazy, yet I say affirmatively what I say. Allow me explain. Whenever I fall in love, for example, the feeling takes over my space. It's like being obsessed. My natural balance to life is interrupted. Everything happening in my day can only be seen through my obsession. My authenticity has slipped from my hands. Likewise, looking at my biggest problem, regardless what it is, I am entrapped in a similar obsession in the fact that it's occupying my mind and clouding my essence. This is me crashing on the particular, making an issue particular to me. My insistence on holding onto my preoccupation with my problem is blocking the immediacy to my life essence here now. Of course, hearing this through the heavy cloud of my problem-world is really not hearing it at all. Whatever I persistently hold onto has to be something I emotively love. This persistent preoccupation with my problems gives them full occupancy in my mind. In so doing, I am allowing my precious space be taken over by this alien force. And life, being the great giver, supplies me with more and more problems to meet my demand for what is manifesting as my love. So what is the solution? There is only one. Allow this message penetrate! In other words, see it exactly as it is. Then I might possibly wake up. Possession
Child’s discarded toy Left to fade and die On child’s discarded waste, Its time outlived Now sour taste. Another happens by Takes discarded toy To bosom’s heart Eternal seeking met? But not just yet! It’s mine! Former owner shouts Calling back castoff taste Discarded toy reclaimed in haste Alas, for second dumping On child’s discarded waste. My lady of the lake, I stand here on the balcony looking down on still water of the silent harbour. A lone swan shares my stillness. I am transfixed by her majestic presence, her demure elegance with me since late evening, through descending dusk and now into night. Life is so beautiful, I thank you lone swan, dear lady of the lake, for so gently reflecting back to me this extraordinary oneness. The Wisdom of Life meditation talk from our last gathering held on August 21 is uploaded in three parts on the Meditation page of this website.
Thank you all sincerely for your presence in making this possible. The age of the sacred feminine is the natural progression of humanity’s projection into this time vortex. The mind pattern, having projected a relative consistency through the patriarchal model, is currently undergoing a phenomenal shift. However, nothing is black and white. Rather, it is one unending movement of varying shades blending together. The feminine, now becoming more pronounced, necessitates the old structures of patriarchy to fade into a disappearing past, including the mind concept of a God as a father figure. This has a consequential impact on religious structures as diehards refuse to concede to the light of the emerging awareness. During such an epochal shift, many circular recurrences converge, spinning our projected consciousness into a new orbit. This reads that huge chunks of past are about to disappear. Many might misread the emphasis moving towards the feminine as being related to gender, thus missing the point. Rather, it is more about energy waves transmuting form in circular motion; not time related, but magnetism without beginning or end in accord with universal law. Alignment with the universal can only occur through the centre point. As more people realise this by reading it clearly, the next breakthrough naturally occurs. |
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