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10-23-2011, 08:23 AM
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I am inspired to try this trial. i am calling it simply to be Love. Others may join in with me or not, but this is my aim at least for a day, but hopefully much longer than that. The idea came from a practice I added in my book. Here it is: Quote:
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10-23-2011, 04:15 PM
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I planned to officially start this today, but started even last night before I went to bed. It was actually really amazing. I noticed that I was more loving and giving, without even trying to do so out of a sense of obligation. It just grew naturally out of my state. I wanted to love. Something I noticed is that Love pushes us to act, which is the explanation of my new user title, "Love in Action." If we really Love, it should push us to act naturally and organically, without being forced or feeling obligated. My wife is doing this with me, too, and it has been really powerful for her as well. We pray over each other every night, and have been doing so for nearly two years. Her shoulder has really been bothering her for a while now. It started out about two months ago, so badly that she was hardly able to move it. Through healing and of course stretching she did for it, and massage, it got better, but still wasn't nearly 100%. Last night, after we prayed, and I did healing for her shoulder as part of that, she got up and noticed that her shoulder was a lot better. She was able to move it a lot more freely without it pulling. Still in certain positions there is a little pain, but overall it is much better. I updated my first post a bit. I wanted to note that we see Love in all things, not only people. It includes everything, animate or inanimate, that we encounter. |
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10-23-2011, 07:00 PM
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Since Love is impersonal, to 'be Love' is actually to get ones personal self out of the way; the self who would direct that Love toward another or be more or less of this or that. Love moves in your absence, which is YOUR presence, and so a much more powerful focus is on emptying out completely. I like to say come empty to every relationship with everything. The end result will be much as you describe, there just won't be somebody doing it or being it; just Love moving as it will.
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10-23-2011, 07:23 PM
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I completely agree, arcanum. Love is the absence of a subject or an object, it just collapses into being. If the person is involved, then we love for some reason, for something we get out of it. If the person is gone, then Love just is and it does what it does, regardless of personal motive or desires. It almost takes on a will of its own. In Christianity, they call this force the Holy Spirit. Christine is pretty heavily involved in the charismatic movement in Christianity, so the manifestation of Love within her has been in the ways that the Holy Spirit generally manifests through her. In me it has been different. It is interesting to observe. |
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10-23-2011, 07:43 PM
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So today I have been open to receiving and have sensed that giving is part of that receiving. It is not static but transmutes. | |
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10-23-2011, 07:53 PM
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 Love is not personal, as arcanum was saying, so it is literally impossible to keep it for ourselves. Love has to be spread to all. | |
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10-23-2011, 09:27 PM
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I have been noticing that when I am Love, everything just seems more enjoyable. It's probably because I recognize the Love in everything else, too. I was eating a cookie, and though it was a pretty generic cookie, I really think it was one of the best I had ever tasted. Christine was singing, and it was the most beautiful I had heard for a while, and I told her so. It surprises me how difficult it is to give someone a compliment. It was even hard to tell Christine she was singing really beautifully, but I could tell it meant a lot to her to hear that. |
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10-24-2011, 07:45 AM
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|  Its not yet 1 full day but......
It took concious effort to do it.... I felt I had to remind myself a few times about it.... Otherwise it was coming naturally.... I meditated upon it for a while.... Its giving me a feeling.... Repeating it consiously will make it our second nature in due time.... It made me feel good... About myself and others.... Making me feel peaceful.... As I found myself least complaining..... And naturally empowered..... Will keep trying it.... Last edited by Ishh; 10-24-2011 at 07:48 AM. |
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10-24-2011, 08:06 AM
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This thread reminds me of this site: Unification Step 1 - Expand in Love I also found something I wrote some years ago, about the practice of deliberately casting/allowing/being Love: "I had astounding experiences when I tried sending love to God/Spirit/Universe/Whatever. It reflected back to me, magnified each time. I had to stop after just a short time because the bliss was unbearable, but now, all I have to do to induce bliss is to quickly just "cast love" to the Divine, and it comes back magnified. It's an almost instantaneous way to raise my own vibration. It feels amazing, and it appears to be extremely healing" I really, really must get back into this practice. I used to do it regularly, got excellent results on multiple levels, and... I don't know. I got distracted or something and stopped. Thank you for the reminder. |
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10-24-2011, 12:54 PM
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I'm happy it has been having good results in your life.
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10-24-2011, 12:57 PM
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I know how it is to have something great, and then just to get distracted with life. I'd be interested to know if you start it up again. | |
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10-24-2011, 01:14 PM
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Yesterday was a great day. It started out pretty rough in the morning and it was hard to get back to Love, but as I've said elsewhere, I'm not condemning myself for those negative feelings anymore like I used to. The funny/awful thing that I've noticed is that when I am caught in the trap of negativity, I don't want to be in Love. It's like I'd rather feel angry, because to feel Love seems to let the other person off too easily. Logically I know that this isn't true. Being angry only poisons myself. But now I know the allure of the negative emotions, and why it can be difficult to return back to Love. It makes me feel like we are either in heaven or hell at every moment. Emotions like anger push us deeper into hell, because we'd rather be there than to be Love and be in heaven. These emotions change our world view for the time that we feel such feelings. Everything might be OK in life, but when we are angry, everything is an injustice and everything is wrong. I read that C.S. Lewis says that hell is locked from the inside, and here we would see how that's true. It is very hard to get out of, until we want to. After that, though, things were great. I can't even point to one thing and say, "Here is what improved." Everything was just happier. I said in my other posts that I felt more inclined to do good things for others, without obligation, but just naturally. That was the only thing I'd rather be doing. Also, everything was just heightened. I remember washing my hands before going to bed last night, and just feeling the water run over my hands. It felt amazing, and I spent about 30 seconds just feeling that, as though it had never happened before. I am more refreshed this morning than usual, especially for only getting five hours of sleep. I actually woke up like three minutes before my alarm, lol. Mornings are rough for me. I don't want to be up, but I have class. This is when I have to remind myself "I am Love" the most. I must say, though, being worried about anything is so unnatural in this state. Not that it never happens, but it just feels foreign and pointless. Sometimes I feel as though I should be worried, but I just can't. Oh, a funny little wink from God yesterday, or what seems to be so, anyway. Our friends wanted to go out somewhere to grab some ice-cream. I told them we couldn't go, as I swore we didn't had enough money. I got back to the apartment and checked anyway, and was completely blown away to see we had more than I thought I knew we had. I checked the history and nothing was out of place. I probably just remembered it wrong, but it was just weird. I called them up and we ended up going. |
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10-24-2011, 05:14 PM
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To the extent that love is being sought as a conditional feeling, it is dualistic and therefore will be accompanied by it's opposite, alternating between the two. Actual Love is present during anger as well, as it is not dependent upon conditions, and one still IS that during anger or whatever circumstances present. Feeling is dualistic. The nondual Love of Beingness is not.
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10-24-2011, 05:51 PM
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10-24-2011, 08:25 PM
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10-25-2011, 05:41 AM
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I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who just sort of wanders off and stops doing something like this. It's easy to get caught up in the swirls and currents of the dream reality and suddenly look up and find you're somewhere entirely else, I guess. I have, indeed, taken this up again. I'm just stepping out of the way and allowing love to radiate and go where it will, without my direction. Very soothing, and healing. Currently going through a period of great uncertainty (in dream terms), and yet I feel calm and centered and not particularly impatient or concerned. It's good. Love you all, and myself as well. |
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10-25-2011, 07:46 AM
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Today was a bit more difficult. I think the influx of Love is bringing up some things I don't exactly care to face. Of course I will face it, but it's just scary. I did pretty well in dealing with some of them, but others I reverted to old patterns. But again, my motto is that I grow by my failures, so it's not too tough on me. Things are still on an upward trend though. It's really amazing what being and living Love can do in my life and for those around me. It's kind of cute. Christine and I regularly ask each other now, "Are you being Love?" It's just random, not necessarily if the other person is bothered, but just like an external reminder throughout the day. It really helps me to keep my focus on it. |
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10-25-2011, 08:05 AM
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That's why I said try "Love being" which could translate into "I am love just being" or "I love being". That takes all the pressure of behaving in a certain way which makes it more natural. Otherwise you have to constantly monitor your thoughts/behavior as if you were your own thought police. | |
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10-25-2011, 10:21 AM
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an inspiring thread. thank you all for sharing. i have a long way to go. my ego is telling me that i'm way below this level of spiritual development, that this kind of experience is beyond me and i shouldn't even bother trying. i'll go and have a discussion with it. i'm finding byron katie's questioning process useful for challenging these very basic beliefs particularly around how 'spiritually inferior' i am. thank you again. i LOVE this idea. xx |
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10-25-2011, 12:58 PM
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Why don't you start doing the practice, and see what happens?The experiences don't matter. Nothing could seem to happen ,but if you are being Love, that is all that matters, and the expression will show itself eventually. | |
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