The spiritual meaning of UN-conditional Love

[melanie]

In the human heart there is the desire to love and be loved,
to want the affection of a father, a mother, a friend, a sweetheart.
But most of us do not recognize that this desire is really a desire for God disguised as something else.

Ultimately in our human relationships we feel frustrated and alone, because the love we know and express on the human plane is merely an imperfect reflection of ''real thing''
God is another word for Love, and Love is all there is.God is Love itself.
Love is hidden in plain view, ever present, ever being, without condition.

This does not mean that human love is wrong and should be avoided.
Through human love such qualities as compassion and unselfishness are developed
and experiences necessary for spiritual enfoldment are gained.
Human affection need not be forcibly renounced,
it becomes spiritualized when it is given unselfishly, without possessiveness or bargaining for return.

To understand unconditional love, you have to re-member who you really are, and as you do,
there is a quickening of the heart, an awakening of sorts, where all desires leave.
Only one desire remains, to love God and live in complete self-surrender to T_his will.
When there is total absorption, union with God Alone.

Love, Lover, and beloved become one.
This love has never been anything else other than that.
It is as divine and as intimate as the nose on your face.

[melanie]

'' Do not give what is divine to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine,
or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. ''

Only the pure of heart find real love.

This thread is dedicated to my soul-mate / twin-flame Drifter.

[melanie]

Only the pure of heart find real love.

No-one knows Love so No-one can find it.

[melanie]

Love is Oneness.

Oneness is not a mystical principle of any sort, at least not if mystical principles are thought of as beyond the ordinary.
If the spiritual dimension is real, I suppose Oneness encompasses it, since it encompasses everything that is real,
but it is not the spiritual dimension as people ordinarily conceive of it.
Indeed, I suspect nothing is. Neither is Oneness God in any of the usual senses of the word.
It is a broader concept than God and a less personal one.
It doesn't hold any secret for man, and it doesn't care a fig what he does or what happens to him.
Oneness is simply what is, and it is a mistake to reify or deify it.
However, if we ask the question what does Oneness have to do with God and spirituality, the answer is everything.

One of the main contentions of Oneness Perceived is that there always will remain a mystery, an unknowable.
Off the edge of the perceptual map, beyond the flatland of knowledge, into the unknowable,
will forever lie that space that the cartographers of science will be able to do no better than indicate with the legend ''Here there be dragons''

[melanie]

Oneness and Consciousness



This is the underlying unity. How do we describe Oneness?
Not by what it is, but by what it is not. Not a perceptual category, it is no thing.
Devoid of physical characteristics, it is the void.
Without qualities, it lacks dimension, materiality, space, location, velocity.
Without past or future, it is eternally now.
Neither here nor there, it is everywhere.
It is only an inference, insubstantial, void and unknowable.

Yet, beyond argument it exists, because without it, there would be no existence to perceive.
To indicate that though void it exists, pervasive and omnipresent, we have to call it something.
Another good name for it is presence.Oneness cannot be known in its reality - it can only be perceived.
Perception gives Oneness its appearances, solidifies the ghost.
Oneness takes on its substance by colliding with the substance of our senses and the cunning of our minds.
Oneness cannot be known in its reality because there is no thing to be known.



In some way ''why existence exists'' is a non-question, traceable to an implicit assumption of duality between existence and nonexistence.
This non-question is the ground of all illusion, all religion and all natural philosophy. Simply and unequivocally, existence exists because nonexistence cannot exist.

Nonexistence is a contradiction in terms and the statement ''nonexistence cannot exist'' is the ultimate tautology.

When you get to the ultimate tautology, you have come to the end of the line.
If you take it seriously, it ends duality, ends thought.

It is the master koan. Hold it in meditation and you will be plunged into the void of non-duality.

Its a beautiful place here.

[melanie]

Can you know Oneness?

Only as the void.

Can you perceive from Oneness? That's the whole point.

Is Perception from Oneness being God? If you choose to call it that.

Why is the void de-void, what is it and why go into it?
The void is void because it is devoid of perceptual and cognitive qualities… nothing more and nothing less.
That does not mean there is no existence there, just that there is no thing there (thing as a perceptual category).

So what is the void?

The void is Oneness, or more accurately the experience of Oneness. Why?
Because in one sense Oneness is all there really is!
Perception and cognition, the tools of the mind, dualize.
They create a spectacle of qualities, things to enchant and entrance, color and form, time and space.
But these things are illusions.

All that is real, prior to perceptual dualization, is Oneness.

[SteveA]

I enjoy reading your posts, Melanie, and even if I can't contribute much to them, they help point in directions to explore. I believe you speak from a position of more direct experience whereas my thoughts tend to lie on the "other side" of that and trace out details one at a time, but I have a hard time saying what the "big picture" looks - probably because I tend to zoom in on details