Showing posts with label Soul. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soul. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Writing from the Soul

photo by mpclemens
At the age of seven I was thinking of what talent I do really have. Is it dancing, I thought. Perhaps singing, since I used to get up on stage and perform. Or cooking. As a pre-schooler, we were asked to bring eggs and hotdogs and pancake to fry and serve them for lunch. I enjoyed doing them. Well, those little things, as a kid, were things of enjoyment, of being in that moment without really worrying what will happen in the future. So it didn't occur to me that there is something more that I could really do.

At age eleven, I started reading a poem in Filipino. That poem ignited my deep interest on poetry, which was then the spark that has made me explore writing up to now. This newfound power compelled me to write my own story, create imaginative characters which I used to do while playing on my own, making humanoid toys converse with each other. Through writing I could create my own world of magic and possibility. I write stories on a yellow pad, a bond paper, or even on a flattened cigarette carton boxes. Inspired by children's fantasies on TV, I would write my own alamat (legends), fables, and fairy tales. I even create my own version of well known children's stories. During my grade school days, I would go to the library and devour on Filipino high school textbooks. After my stay, I would bring at least two textbooks with me, so I could read them the whole weekend. When my mom bought me a typewriter as a gift, I typed stories voraciously, spending my holy weeks madly banging the typewriter with endless ideas, stories and poems that spring from my imagination. These are my writing adventures, all of which are foundational for all the writings on Love you have read on this blog.


"Writing is my Soul. It is my being.
It is my becoming."
This time, I am rediscovering writing. It is my great tool. No, it is more than a tool. Writing is my Soul. It is my being. It is my becoming. It is the best thing I want to do, to enliven and to achieve. It is not just a routine of scribbling sentences and paragraphs. Writing is my form of expression, a personal experience, a timeless adventure. In writing, I can write my own world, bring back my wonderful memories, chronicle my own history, describe my experiences, learn from my inner creativity, relieve my stressful days, talk to myself and to God, share others my heart, and explore my true self. My writing is as unique as me, as specific as my DNA, for it allows me to create my personal dimension manifested in words. Sooner I may die and be forgotten for years, yet the gift of my writing to the world will outlast centuries, just as many writers who have lived their lives and left their legacies. Writing becomes the fossil of their once living beings, a blueprint of their entity and a witness to the fulfillment of their souls. In truth, I am bringing these same effects in my life.

Writing from the Soul has led me to find that everything around me can be captured through unspoken words untainted by worldly meaning. There is suchness in each truth I see, and each can offer that power to become written experience. The sea can become an inkwell or the earth can become paper. Or the sky a blank screen and the stones a keyboard. Every movement in nature has a dynamic awakening of words, in which every heart can read Love.

I am now writing a book on Love. Of all my writing adventures, this one is the ultimate. As words spring forth from this book, each rings the wonder and magic of Love. My Soul writes its own enlightenment, as Love brings light as its message to the world.
photo by Linds :)
My greatest fulfillment, and perhaps equally as my greatest success, is to write from the depth of my Soul. Yes, I could write in many ways, about many things, yet to write from the Soul is much more transformative. I have enabled myself to see things in the eyes of Love, and to account for those sights, hindsights, and insights. Bringing life to Love through words is a magnificent achievement. I feel that this goes the same for Souls who have chosen to express Love through music or arts or helping each other, and the expression of Love becomes their own radical unfolding. The same is true for my writing experience. Writing is the very key to the immense potentiality of my Soul. I have realized that if I'm going to seek first the kingdom of God, I have to find it through writing. Because this kingdom of God, which I call and experience as Love, remains formless until the time I weave words that would express it. Then Love becomes tangible and real. And from there, all forms of Love would flow incessantly, the blessings that come from my realization of Love.





Sunday, March 28, 2010

Inner Knowing

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." --Book of Matthew

Our lives are full of uncertainties. These uncertainties are the result of suffering. We grapple our ways towards many fixations, of making life more secure and comfortable. We have sought ways in which we can stabilize the flow of life through the best ways we know, be it money or job or some sort of meaningful task or endeavor. We always make sure that whatever that is uncertain, which we always fear, must vanish through our efforts of creating a life that is more predictable and measurable. We often design ourselves like cogs in a machine, following the gears of a mechanistic, fated universe. So whenever we encounter the opportunity to change, we often shun them away, or worse we dread them, for these are uncertain choices that do not fit our expectations and assumptions. My former classmate raised a question during our usual group conversations a few years ago: "What happens to our lives after college? We'll finish school, get a job, get married, have a family, have kids, send kids to school, travel places, collect things, shop and buy, yet what will happen next? It is as if our lives is just a cycle of repeating experiences. I guess there is more to life than just these things." Yes, there is more to life. This is for sure. Still, what we are always missing is the certainty, the decision, the courage to take the risk and dare to venture the uncharted wilderness of that more in our lives.

Uncertainty is not just a fact, it is the truth. Through this, we can be always certain that there is more to life. But too seek this more outside ourselves is a futile venture. Because whatever we find outside, paradoxically, is all inside of us. Within us is the power to find the immensity of life. Our very tool is our Soul's Inner Knowing. It is both our tool and our being. The Inner Knowing brings us to this core of awareness, of being deeply certain in the middle of countless uncertainties.


Our Inner Knowing is the sense of our Soul. It knows what it both knows and does not know. It is our connection to the mysteries of Life, to the things we are yet to experience, to the possibilities we desire to achieve. Our Inner Knowing cuts through our vague understanding and brings us to reexamine our decisions and choices, and leaves us a question: "Am I coming from Love?" We become aware through our Inner Knowing when we can sense that deep essence of Love, and we answer our life's puzzle through the test of doing and acting from that very Love. Within this Knowing, we discern the passion of our hearts, on how it wants to express and experience Life in the grandest way possible. Often, the world around us, and the people we know will find that our choices that come from Love will always be absurd. It is because Love never follows the standard of this world. It has its own Inner Knowing. This Inner Knowing is always sure of what it chooses. It is always an empowered choice. And it transforms our Life into its truest fulfillment.

This Inner Knowing is the Kingdom of God and Christ encourages us to tap into it. We could find it nowhere nor sooner. Because it is, in Christ words, within and among us. We never wait for it, for this Inner Knowing only knows that the only moment is this very moment where we can always give the world what our Soul can offer, and that is Love. So we must stop seeking it elsewhere or waiting for tomorrow to let the Inner Knowing come. The here and now is the best time and place we can Love.

And it what ways this Inner Knowing knows and does Love? Our Inner Knowing knows Love if we stop judging and comparing ourselves with others. It does Love if we stop worrying of whatever happened in the past and will happen in the future. There is no Soul better than us, except the illusion that we are being compared and measured. These illusions stop us to acknowledge our Inner Knowing, but remind us that it is there. Soul has no time to wait, for there is really no time at all. In timelessness of the Inner Knowing, we have already achieve our desires, what we just need to do is to recognize them that we do. It is so obvious, but we think our Inner Knowing is still unknown because whatever unknown must be feared of. Fear of the unknown prevents us to seek this mystery, of diving to this overwhelming dimension of our Inner Knowing, of this Love within. Thus the paradox: the more we look for some known goal we are badly obsessed to grab, the more we lose our chance of being aware of the blessings that is right in front of us.

This Inner Knowing is the door leading to our awareness. Once we become aware, we are less afraid of what we don't know. Delving to this unknown, to this mystery of Life is the first step to our own transcendence. Life, however predictable it may seem to be, is no longer reduced into redundant routines. Each experience, even if it is so mundane and ordinary, becomes a sacred moment, where Love radiates into being. We can do things with Love, even as simple as washing the dishes or riding a bus. This awareness of Love moment to moment is the Inner Knowing that knows itself being known, and allows itself to be known in its most unknown and unlikely manner. It directs us into the state what our Soul really is. Inner Knowing is always sure and never fails to be sure, because the only thing that is exact to it is the certitude of Love.

In the unfathomable depths of our being, we have always known our Inner Knowing. It only waits for us to choose to know. There is no other way. Once we do, whatever limited things we know about Love expands. We will finally know that Love and Inner Knowing are both the same. This is the ultimate knowing that finally puts our hearts at peace with Life, and our Soul in the womb of Love.











Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Goddess Within

For most of us, to see God as a woman is quite unimaginable, for we have long accepted that God is only a man, a father, who oversees us with power and control. Our history has galvanized the image of God as a man, whose power is beyond measure, and whose authority knows no boundaries. This is the God we have believed who fathered every one of us, and provided the life that we possess. But, today, the face of God is changing. In this new era of awakening, humanity is restoring the balance of how we see God. We are now embracing that God is not just a father, but a mother who gave birth to us all.

We are now invited to see God in a different way. There is no need to replace God as man with God as a woman. To see the powerful qualities of God in union with the nurturing qualities of the Goddess, we can now understand how significant this insight is in our lives. While we can find the kingdom of God within, together with all its greatness and strength, we can also take refuge with the sanctuary of the Goddess.

The Goddess within is not a substitute to the image of God. To recognize the Goddess is to reconcile with God's great Loving capacity. To find the Goddess within is to see that God can cherish us like a mother, or more so, a mother himself. The Goddess is the face of God in the time of conception and growth of Life. This Goddess is our inner humanity, our wonder and miracle, our potential to create. Regardless of gender, this is more to rediscover the psyche, what Carl Jung calls the anima. To honor the anima, our feminine psyche, which is just another way of calling the Goddess, is to do the same with God, our masculine psyche, our animus. To say that there is a Goddess within cannot dishonor God, for God is but the completion of being a man and a woman, not just in terms of sexuality, but in the light of Truth of the Soul. God is the union of all opposites that are always in harmony with each other. God and the Goddess are but two distinct being of Oneness. They are both within us. They cannot be separated. Christ said, "The two become one." In this union of the God and the Goddess, the being of Love is born.

We are romancing not just the idea of this union, but its potential to enrich our lives. God is no more a mere concept of a separate, superior being. God is always one with us, and He is within us. He transforms in many ways, and becomes the ultimate transformation of the Soul, manifesting in our Loving actions and thoughts. He is the God that becomes the Goddess through colorful possibilities. He can conceive our Soul, give birth to our goodness, and can nurse our hungry hearts. And He cannot anymore be labeled as He, for the pronouns that separates God and the Goddess no longer labels whoever is man or woman. Love becomes their main gender, and they are in One within our Soul. Our God calculates, organizes and focuses on the physical aspects of how Love is express. Our Goddess endows, sustains, emancipates the soulful, subtle energies of how Love purely exists. Whenever we share Love to others, God provides us tangible ways to do it, such as a physical gesture, or a material blessing. And Goddess imparts Her sheer, pristine divine power of caring and compassion. This very dynamic is happening within us, and we become both the God and the Goddess in our own right. For their awakening reveals the balance of Love within us, and the wholeness of Love invokes our Soul to be whole again.






Sunday, March 7, 2010

On Soul

What is essential is invisible to the eye -- Antoine St. Exupery, The Little Prince.

Anything that carries mystery is often unseen. Such is the Soul. It is the invisible fragment of the invisible whole. The Soul is a fragment, yet it is not fragmented. The fragment is whole in itself. It remains invisible for those who remain blind to the truth it embodies. It cannot be seen through the eyes of doubt, through which most of us use. The naked eye that sees physical things in this physical world is incapable of seeing non-physical things in the non-physical world. Nevertheless, the truth never hides itself.
The lovely, wise seagull of Richard Bach advises a little hummingbird: But remember that not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. Truth stays, waiting for our inner eyes to see.

Truth of the Soul continues to be the truth as it is. But that truth is far from being defined by words or described by sight. A friend once said that The Soul is so abstract that it is so difficult to comprehend; it seems so far from concrete reality. She argued that there must be some way to make the Soul concrete, like some operational theory or explanation. Yes, there is one way, I thought. For us to understand the Soul, we must stop thinking of labeling it as abstract and reality as concrete. Because every thing that is concrete comes from the abstract, just how many sages of the past told us. The Soul is never an opposite of the flesh and bones or sticks and stones that we can see and touch. Rather, the Soul is all-embracing, as it embraces and permeates every physical thing that we see. The Soul is reality itself. It is both abstract and concrete. It never opposes anything, for all things are manifestations of the Soul.

Our visible reality is deceiving. It deceives us to believe that anything invisible cannot be described, and therefore untrue. But absence does not mean non-existence. The Soul does not just exist. It lives among and within us. The Soul is us, yet to be acknowledged. The Soul is real, yet to be described.

The Soul often appears to be a metaphor and a symbol of that which is indescribable. Since the Soul is beyond description, we have used
many things that we can see, touch and feel as tangible metaphors and symbols.

Wind is one. It is invisible, yet it is felt. A Filipino riddle tells us that wind is something that comes yet still unseen. Wind blows between branches and rustles among leaves. It can always be gentle, sometimes fierce.
The whole earth inhales and exhales it. Nobody can say that even wind is unseen, it is not true. Everyone feels how cool and strong the wind is. This is the same for the Soul. The Soul does not need to be seen in order to be true. Great truths, like the Soul, need more than physical sight. We must feel the Soul. Feeling the Soul becomes truer than it seems to be. To feel the Soul is to find it more than its existence. We must experience the Soul. Wind becomes real when kites fly or when flag waves or pinwheels spin. Kites, flags and pinwheels are useless without the wind. Or they won't even exist if not for the wind. Wind gave birth to them, and they bring life to the wind. We are all kites and flags and pinwheels that came from the invisible Soul. The Soul gives life to us as we feel its presence. And the Soul becomes more real because of us.

We need not to prove how real Soul is. It is. We can see it everywhere. We can find it anywhere. We can hear it. We can touch and feel it. Soul is as real as you and me. We are taught that Soul is something that resides in us and makes us alive. I would add more to that: It is within us, and yet it is absolutely us. The Soul faces us when we face the mirror after we wake up in the morning. And deep beneath pale cheeks and drowsy eyes, there is the Soul that stays unseen. The Soul is the life in us that makes our hearts beat, arteries throb and blood flow. Soul is Life itself, beating, throbbing, flowing.

From our hearts, arteries, veins and capillaries branch out. Blood traverses this web of intricate vessels, woven within layers and layers of tissues and flesh. It is a network, coming from a center. Tony Buzan calls this the natural architecture. Natural architecture is present in all things in nature. In fact, it is the only universal structure ever present in all things natural. A spider web is a network of fine web threads. A Tree is also a network of branches and leaves. Even brain itself is a network neurons. They are all natural architecture. Something from the center shoots up, grows, branches, and expands. But each outgrowth is a center itself. Each node is a new center, a new source where something again grows. In a whole network, each new source is complete. They are all centers. Nietzsche once said the center is everywhere. Likewise, each of us is a Soul, a center of being, a divine node capable of growing. We interconnect, like a huge invisible network. Indra's net. Jewels - we as Souls - are interwoven to this network.

In this light, the Soul is in fact the Soul of many Souls. We are individual Souls, woven together by underlying truth of the collective Soul. Together, we become a universal Soul. In our unconscious consensus, we are all One Soul. Oversoul, like as Emerson put it. It is called in many names. As we work in both as individuals and a collective, Our One Soul is our greatest aspiration and existence. We are not separate from the rest, because our One Soul is the encompassing reality of Love. The Soul we discover is the Love we can create.







Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Sacred Union


(conclusion)

Good is the union of all the opposites. Evil no longer exists.
--Deepak Chopra,
How to Know God.


Human Love is the physical expression, the simple intimations, and the outright utterance of what Love is. Through Human Love, a big hug, a sweet kiss, a word of affirmation spring from the depths of human heart, so Love can be shown in its common but deep manifestations. Divine Love, on the other hand, is the Soul of Love, its true, pure, and intangible nature that cannot be grasped by words and concepts, nor can be defined by physical actions and logical conclusions. Together, these two "kinds" of Love become one:
the Sacred Union, the union of Divine and Human Love.

Robert A. Johnson, in his book, We: The Psychology of Romantic Love, tells us that this Sacred Union is comparable to the incarnation, like that of Christ, who is an incarnated God; the pure, Divine Love born in its human form. The Sacred Union shows that Divine and Human Love are different forms of the same essence, and both are in their incessant change of being and becoming. Whenever it is difficult to grasp what Love is, a loving touch makes Love truer. Yet a touch alone cannot express the infinite, intangible Love, unless Love alone is the sincere cause that makes physical touch possible.

Romantic Love is a form of Sacred Union, where Love bonds the lover and the beloved. This is beyond how Love is merely defined. Wonderful emotions spring from Romantic Love, but only if Romantic Love is realized. Love cannot be limited by our emotions. This is behind our failed concept of Love, where most of us think that for us to Love, we must have that wonderful feeling as a proof of our Love. Once it goes away, Love, too, is gone. This raises a question on how we understand Love: do we only Love based on our intense emotions? Emotions cannot sustain Love, for emotions are only impermanent expressions of the unchanging Love. Love can exist with or without emotion. But because we are human beings, emotions are indications of how Love expresses itself. That is why we feel Love rather than think of it. Discerning this Sacred Union entails a different kind of awareness, where we don't muddle up the emotion with the purest form of Love. Tapping to the true source of Love allows positive emotions and infinite possibilities to cascade, making our lives richer and more colorful.

If we continue to suffer in anxiety and loneliness, our negative emotions remind us that the Sacred Union is yet to happen, and it calls for our active participation. Being aware of the Love within us unites our Divine Love - our nature - and Human Love -our expression- to become one inseparable truth. This union is a potential source of energy, like positive and negative terminals of a battery, wherein all that is good, including positive emotions and material blessings, flows and inundates our lives.

The Sacred Union is comparable to a holy marriage, or what Carl Jung termed as hieros gamos. This is the union of all opposites. Opposites are not opposing. In fact, they are nondual. Like hot and cold, or hard and soft, they are all transformations of the same essential reality. A soft can also be hard or vice versa.


A man and a woman are opposites, yet they are not in war or in domination of each other. Their partnership is strengthened by the bond of conscious Loving. Man's masculine energies of action and physicality combined with the woman's feminine energies of passion and soulfulness forms a true identity of Oneness. This holy marriage becomes the evidence of Love, through the couples' commitment in living Love in their lives. Beyond the usual concept of rituals and legal rulings, the holy marriage takes place within the consciousness of both partners.

This is a continuous, never-ending process. Sacred Union is not a one-time event. Love between a man and a woman manifests in gestures of Romantic Love, when Divine/Human Love is experienced. It is a continuous choice, to choose Love moment to moment of existence. This is the Rhythm of Love that gives music to strong bonds and relationships. When a partner fails to be conscious of Divine Love, an act of Human Love reminds again. When a partner fails to show Human Love, the feeling and memory of Love empowers more.

Romantic Love, therefore, leads us to an insight: that Love is beyond romantic emotions and sentiments, techniques and how-to's, cultural concepts and the like. Romantic Love is the Sacred Union of the deepest understanding of Divine Love, and its own tangible expression as Human Love. There will be no more confusion between being human or divine, for in the Sacred Union, all opposites are equal. A man and a woman achieve this great union, by the virtue of Love's utmost truth, giving birth to the Soul of Love through their lasting presence. Love is both human and divine within them, and they bring greatness to the true nature of Love.





Monday, December 14, 2009

The Enemy of the Soul

Growing up on many animated and live-action films, I was part of a great tribal mind that there is always a battle waged between good and evil. There is always a hero on one side, and a villain on the other. The hero must kill the villain, lest the enemy wreaks more havoc. Evil must be fought by all means, by hook or by crook. This Armageddon has been a common pattern virtually on all fantasy and science fiction stories, an essential theme that makes any story interesting since conflict is the main ingredient that propels action, and the hero's triumph over the villain is the most anticipated victory. Until two years ago, while I dreamed of writing my own epic, I have become aware that this theme is no more than a prosaic fictional depiction of what is truly happening in the world that we still keep hidden and, worst, unnoticed. We have always separated ourselves from others. In a moment of conflict, we always see ourselves, our families, or our friends as the righteous ones. We have failed to see through the perspective of our enemies, since we squarely box them in as evil. Thus, the battle begins. We instigate these attacks that produce endless avenging. We perpetrate the concept of enemy in star-studded soap operas and expensively budgeted films with cutting-edge special effects. We enjoy the sight of actors and actresses arguing, shouting, cursing, hitting, punching, kicking, shooting, mutilating, killing each other. And we emulate this - unfortunately, subconsciously - as a normal, easiest way to deal with our enemies. And our world becomes the witness, where millions are being killed just because they are heretics or black sheep, heathens or unbelievers. We have drafted laws that severely punish the criminals, and condemn the terrorists. With this kind of mentality, we have let fear to control our lives. We have learned to defend ourselves, believing that anytime we will be attacked. We fight over the pettiest of things and the worst global issues. After all, we have thought that crushing our enemies is the only better way to gain justice than making them as friends.

Our enemies are a colorful band of hated people: in-laws, spouses, partners, kids, siblings, relatives, former friends, colleagues and co-workers, old flames and schoolmates, neighbors next door, politicians of another party, strangers on the bus, restaurant crews or government officials. We only see them as people who give us the bad day. We believe that our enemies are people who do not understand things with common sense, who deserve to be condemned and hated. We breed ill-will towards them in an increasing scale: from irritation, annoyance and anger, to rage, hatred and wrath. These emotions are like small sparks that have ignited into damaging wildfire, flaring up our hearts to just make one move that will end our enemies into ashes. And even if we win, the empty core of ourselves is still wondering for that fulfillment. We have never been empty before. We are burned in the same hell where we cast our enemies off.

But why is it that the more we win battles against enemies, there is still more unrest outside as much as inside? Is there any way to end this viciousness, to stop acting like wild reptiles, and to become human beings again? The answer: yes, there is. It is about time to make a conscious shift of how we understand the word enemy.


We can begin asking ourselves this question: who is our enemy? If you still have a particular person in mind, who pushes your buttons, gets on your nerves from time to time, and blame him or her for your unhappiness, then you have to start deeper self-examination. The enemy of the soul is not someone who disagrees with you, even those who are different from the way you become and do things. The enemy of the soul is not the one who wins or loses the battle. The enemy of the soul is not the one who is an evil villain. The enemy is a concept of how you see your self. The words "enemy" and "soul" and the thousand of meanings and experiences behind them cannot co-exist, simply because the former is non-existent; only the latter is true. You don't have an enemy. The enemy you only see is yourself. However you see others an enemy, that is how you precisely see yourself. When you find your enemy horrible, that is how you mirror yourself with him or her. When you inflict injury on your enemy, it is the injury that you inflict on yourself. Whenever you wound any enemy, you cannot avoid but wound yourself. As we realize the truth of our interconnectedness, we will see our enemies in a different way. This is beautifully written in a poem by Hafiz, a 14th century Sufi poet (translated by Daniel Ladinsky):

I have come to the world to see this:
the sword drop from men's hands
even at the height of
the arc of their rage

because we have finally realized
that there is just one flesh
we can wound.

This poem brings us to a fresh perspective: there is no enemy. Christ taught us to Love our enemies not because there are enemies to Love but because we have believed that we have an enemy, an enemy that resides in our consciousness, and we must begin to reconcile with it. Christ addressed us this teaching in simplest terms that we all can understand. When we begin to forgive, we continue to empower ourselves with Loving energies. We begin to bring the energy of Love back to our awareness. We begin to acknowledge the illusion that eats the very core of our existence: as you face your mirror, the face that appears is the face of a nonexistent enemy. That face is your tangible soul, the being of Love from which God has manifest. Once we see ourselves as we are, we allow more energy to forgive, accept, understand, acknowledge our souls. This process leads us to the Suchness of our humanity and divinity, of recognizing our innate worth. We deliberately stop our struggling effort to commit violence towards ourselves and others. In his book, Healing the Heart of Conflict, Marc Gopin quotes a very succinct rabbinic adage: "Who is a true hero? He who can make an enemy into a friend." It condones the act of surrendering not as weakness, but a recognition that giving up the fight with an enemy is to allow inner and outer peace to flourish. Such a wisdom is worth equal to a thousand different teachings.

While facing our enemies, both ourselves and others, we are now reminded not to judge, vilify, condemn, because our lack of knowledge about the other disarms us of possible attack, and calls for more understanding. As we begin to understand, we enrich the possibility of friendship instead of enmity, and make the best of our intrinsic symbiotic connection with our fellow human beings, ending the savage impact of our the predatory and parasitic minds.

As you read this, crimes, wars and killings are still ongoing in different parts of the world. The enemy of the soul is still strong in the minds of the many, and is out of our control. But we can do something. We have to begin within ourselves, befriending the enemy within. The real freedom is not to expunge what we hate on ourselves, but to embrace the wholeness of our being. For our enemies, as we conveniently call them, remind us the great wisdom that what we hate in them is what we hate on ourselves. And hatred, echoing what the Buddha said, "...never ceases through hatred in this world. Through Love alone they cease. This is the eternal Law." Loving ourselves is the best way to deal with our enemies. We can now Love our enemies with the same intensity of how we Love ourselves. We can finally reconcile that as we have awakened with Love, the word enemy will never be the same again.





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