oh how amazing to connect with people at the right time:
d: there are only two emotions in this world...love and the need to be...not love and hate...the need to be loved is what brings hate, power, greed
me: drop this need, your attachment, your selfishness, drop your expectations, and what is left is love.
d: Precisely…..to me if you say “love & hate” you are in essence making everything “black and white” - Love is just that…anything positive, up, etc… "Hate" merely saying the word evokes darkness…we were never allowed to say “I hate someone or something” when I was younger, my mother wouldn’t hear of it instead we had to say “I dislike that” – which was a wonderful gift…hate puts a lot of negative weight on the soul…
So Love and the Need to be loved to me – suggests a solution, a healing, endless possibilities (not just black and white – love and hate that’s it….after all isn’t that what war is about?)
…..I am not a bliss ninny…….as I realize there are certain dark people in this world….but I think the majority of people “act out” because they are crying out for love…they make look hateful, crazy, rely on substances, etc….but as Maya Angelou said (and she was speaking about parents I believe ….but I hink it applies to everyone…not just our childhoods and our parents) “If they knew better they would have done better” or something like that…..I think most people are “sleep walking”any way.
……….sorry for getting to heavy
me: I just love how you skate on the surface of all the Zen Buddhist stuff I'm learning but you are coming at it from a different background perspective and still saying the same thing...fascinating how that works...goes to show you that its all the same lesson, just in different terms...
me: And the thing is, at least in my interpretation, its not just about HATE, thats why you can't say hate...its just about whatever it is that you NEED that keeps you from being free, and free to LOVE.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
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Yes i have to agree that most people are sleep walkers hence they need to wake up. They need love and they need to know first what love is, they didn't get enough love in their life, starting with the mother/father, and none told them ever that they have to start loving themselves, just the opposite. So, hate is obviously always lingering beneath what everybody calls love - it should be called lovehate. Don't be afraid to use the word hate because the war is not going to end if we start calling it with some other name. Dropping the need for love is impossible (just the dropping per se is not an easy task) it is going to happen only when the real love starts flowering in you, so better to say go for love, start loving, be aware of your need for love and recognize that's what matters. In fact how can you get love if you don't start loving? who is going to love you if you don't love yourself first? I always declare that i am very selfish, loving myself first that's why i love you too. (laughter) Great idea to blog a dialog, actually i thought about it few days ago but i am not going to do it, so please keep it up, i really like it.
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