KARMA #9

“Love implies generosity, care, not to hurt another, not to make them feel guilty, to be generous, courteous, and behave in such a manner that your words and thoughts are born out of compassion.” Krishnamurti

LOVE

Of necessity this blog is a bit longer than most.

“Love is the most universal, formidable and mysterious of all the cosmic forces.” De Chardin

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”  Rumi

God's Love for Us

God’s love does not seek worth, God’s love creates worth.

God is not a test of love, God’s love is not a test.

 

The Creators loves us all as well as all of the other Beings of Nature. The Creator continues to love us in spite of our failings. This love is unconditional - karma, however, is conditional. The Infinite One will forgive us for anything we have done to our Higher Selves made in the Creator’s image but not those we have done to our fellow humans. For that we must seek their forgiveness. Giving forgiveness and asking for forgiveness is a loving energy which heals both ourselves and others.

 

If the law does not serve love do not serve the law.

 

The Ancestors do not tell us to disobey the law because the penalties could be spiritually counterproductive. We do not serve an unjust law if we have right thoughts, intent and opinions even if we cannot do anything about it.

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Matthew

During these crazy times the only recourse we may have is to vote or protest in some non-harmful way and hope for the best. Do not depend on the hope of results - love anyway.

There are only two feelings (many emotions); love and fear. Love has numerous ways of expressing itself; empathy, compassion, mercy, forgiveness, gratitude, joy ...

Love and joy are soul work.

Our soul is made for joy and the more we truly love the more we will experience it and become its very essence.

The yogis say that the most difficult chakra to open is the heart chakra.  It is also an easy chakra to close.

Kabbalah teaches that students who have mastered Tiferet – the heart of the Tree of Life and the sephirah (energy center) of love – can then teach themselves.

The heart has profound effects not only on the brain but also on the journey of the soul.

When the heart is muffled the soul shrinks.

There are two autonomic nervous systems, sympathetic, which is fear based and parasympathetic, which induces a relaxation response and is love based. 'Coherence' can arise out of the relaxation response in a group of meditators. The sum of the parts is greater than the whole. Coherence can spread not only to the individuals in the group but also to the community at large and can have a positive energetic effect on the supernal worlds above. Coherence has the potential to create pockets of universal love. Communal prayers for peace, healing and even rain do the same. The Creator, our guides and the 'Field' can participate. Medical studies have shown that Distant Healing which is a love vibration can heal or cure.

The rational mind often gets in the way of what the heart must embrace in order to coax the soul to open.

“To awaken the heart is to awaken the dormant soul.”  M. Gandhi

The HeartMath institute have done research on heart Coherence which occurs when the heart rate variability comes into harmony with a balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. They have shown that the heart sends out more signals to the brain than vice versa and if there is heart Coherence there are also emotional and cognitive effects on the brain.

The same is true the other way around. If one meditates in any form the brain's prefrontal lobe generates positive, love based emotions.

The Mind controls the Heart.

We need to be sure which Mind is working; Monkey Mind which is a sympathetic, flight or fight, survival response, creating primitive, fear based emotions,

or

Big (Spacious) Mind which is our higher consciousness residing in the prefrontal lobe.

The Mind must Mind what the Mind minds best.

We need Monkey Mind to get us out of sticky situations but otherwise it should be subordinated to Big Mind.

The Law of Attraction is a philosophy suggesting that positive (love vibration) thoughts and actions usually bring positive results into one's life, while negative thoughts bring negative results. Others will often then respond to us more positively. Nevertheless, sometimes 'No good deed goes unpunished.' and a positive action can create a negative response which gets thrown back at us. Love anyway.

Gratitude also helps us to pay things forward which facilitates the Law of Attraction.

Gratitude is a love based response which also has distant effects on our spirit guides. When we show gratitude for what they do we enhance their love and help for us. Love is the catalyst that allows them to cross the veil between worlds and send their messages of support.

“Only love can generate the healing fire.” Agnes Sanford

The San Bushmen healers say that to be a powerful healer one must love everyone no matter what one thinks of them. This is love as a commitment, not necessarily a feeling or a sentiment. One also need not like them or have anything more to do with them other than giving them a helping hand in that present moment.

Also –  'Namaste' – I see the divinity in you. We all are made in the image of the Divine and even the worst of us, have a spark of divinity within us – hidden or not.

 

You will come from doubt to belief,

from belief to understanding, 

from understanding to knowing, 

from knowing to feeling (being heart-felt - loving)

This is the way.

Determine well your heart’s desire for in releasing your intention its energy will affect its holiness or unholiness.

 

If one studies the fallen gurus, priests, shamans etc. we can see that they usually had profound knowledge, understanding and wisdom of spiritual principles. However, when they achieved complete control over their devotees they became heartless. and corrupted by their power, position of authority and greed. Many manipulated and abused their students financially, physically, mentally, spiritually and sexually. They deviated downward from the heart and upper chakras to the power-ego chakra and even lower to that of sexual energy. They totally lost the love-heartfelt vibration. They and others with profound spiritual knowledge who abuse their power will be held to a much higher standard karmically than the rest of us.

Even enlightened beings can loose the way because of bodily and material enticements.

 To those to whom much is given, much is expected.

Among all who possess great wisdom only those who act wisely, act from love.

If study and prayer do not serve justice and compassion they are but a conceit and a hollow sound.

 

Love embraces compassion, empathy and forgiveness.

We need to be compassionate with those younger souls who maybe further back along the spiritual spiral than we are. We may have been even worse in prior lifetimes.

 

“We are all climbing toward the summit of our heart’s desires. Should the other climber steal your sack and your purse and wax fat on the one and heavy on the other, you should pity him. The climbing will be harder for his flesh and the burden will make his way longer. And should you in your leanness see his flesh puffing upward, help him in a step; it will add to your swiftness.” Anonymous

The Ancestors expand on the teaching – love your neighbor as yourself – and say that this may not always fit the person you are attending. That individual may not want to be loved in the way that you love yourself. Rather we should rather love them as they would like to be loved without enabling them. 

This applies especially to those close to us, those whom you do not intend to walk away from afterwards. To them the Ancestors urge; of love, be a little more careful.  

For the rest, as Jesus taught ; turn the other cheek – rather than losing our power to them, walk away, take the high road or even better still make of your opponent a dance partner. Best to try and find common ground.

It does not pay to take a stand against someone who has a different opinion to one's own and has no intention of changing.