Who knew that love was all about giving? Why was I never told? Somehow, I grewup thinking love was about getting. Something to seek and find in others rather than provide for myself and give away. How did I learn this?
Loving others is the easiest way to feel loved. Being away from home, there is nothing I prefer more than looking at pictures of people I love and feeling that love fill me up. Yes, it's nice to connect with people too. Especially people who truly know me. But even more than that connection is the idea of thinking and feeling them with love. Sending them a warm embrace and kind word. How did I never know how easy love is?
I guess the next step is taking my loving-kindness a step further and allowing it to radiate out to everyone. Loving everyone for being human, and being buddha nature. If I can do that, what's to stop the world from being a loving, embracing, amazing place. If I can just love everyone first and ask questions later. It opens everything up and fills me with all that love I give away.
My gut reaction is to fear everyone until proven kind, and trustworthy. Turning that around would be life changing.
I keep coming back to this weekend I spent at a meditation reatreat at Cloud Mountain. Not that the meditation instruction was anything special or that the environment was all that amazing. It was rather the noble silence of spending three days with people, closely interacting without the need or ability to speak or communicate. It gave me such a sense of connection, a sense of being, existing and loving. That experience keeps coming back to me....probably as a lesson that I have yet to adapt in my everyday life. The lesson of interconnectedness and loving-kindness to all.
If I could only feel that connection and bring it into all my interactions with others, how could my life be anything but filled with love, and bliss?
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