January 24, 2014

Your Love - Only a Desire, not True Love

You love a shirt, or pen or car for its beauty and impressiveness.  Do you really love it?   Always? No.  You want to replace it after some years.  You love a person because he or she has good qualities, good personalities, intelligence, etc.  When they are lost, will you love the same person? You love a person because he helped you on all needs.  Will you love him if he turns into a selfish fellow and denies help for you? Some people say "I loved him very much and did much for him but he cheated me."  Expectations of some returns is business, not love.  Another misconception of love is that true love means love towards only one person faithfully.  If it is true, what about Mother Terasa who loved the entire humanity.  Thus desire, possessiveness, sexual attractions and loyalty are all misunderstood as love.
What is true love?
A love without any desire to get anything in return, without any attempt to possess or control or change the other person, without any reason is true love.  Desire is born of head but love is born of heart.  Desire has a reason, a target but not love.  If you love a girl and want to possess her, you make her a slave, her very freedom is lost.  Marriage legally commits that crime.  True love always guarantees the freedom of the loved, never imposes any conditions on the loved, and is always ready to give itself totally.  Love towards all in existence without any difference, whether the small grass or big star, blood relations or strangers, the beautiful or the ugly, the rich or the poor, people of your religion or the other is the true love that always arises from the Enlightened one.  Meditation leads to Great Silence which becomes Source of your true love.

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