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Post by ML on Aug 23, 2018 9:38:08 GMT
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Post by IW on Aug 23, 2018 16:56:52 GMT
Sex and love
The 2 most misused and distorted words to ever have existed in our vocabulary. Or should I say the most effective thing there is for confusion, suppression, distrust, anger, hopelessness etc.
from Philip Goddard:
(lies of love)
Here we go with some of the lies about love, then, which are so widely accepted.
It's about wanting to be together with a particular person. It's about sexual intercourse. It's about desiring another person. It's about getting married / being married. It's about procreation / having babies. It's about Man and Woman. It's about living with a particular person and not wanting to be apart from them. It's about regarding another person as 'my own'. It's about another person fulfilling needs of one's own. It's about another person to fill a gap in one's life. It's about feeling that you can't live (at least a fulfilling life) without a particular person or a close relationship at all. It's about mutual attraction / 'chemistry'. It's about getting or/and giving pleasure with another person. It's about getting or/and giving the greatest possible thrills with another person. Sexual compatibility is the basis of a loving relationship. Love is about having a special, close relationship. Love is a particular feeling you have towards a particular person. Love is a particular feeling. It's about relationships with people. True, pure (supposedly 'spiritual') love involves just one rarefied and highly 'appropriate' or 'correct' close relationship, which does not push anyone's religious or 'spirituality' taboo 'buttons'. Because true, pure (supposedly 'spiritual') love is unconditional, it involves no close relationships at all. As well as unconditional love (which only enlightened 'adepts' experience), there is such a thing as 'conditional love' or special love for a particular person.
(He says love is)
Rather, it is an intrinsic quality of fundamental consciousness itself, and thus of every human, because every human is a manifestation - never mind how distorted - of fundamental consciousness. Real love is simply the fundamental characteristic that we all have, even if greatly obscured, of experiencing delight, joy and beauty in the life experience and in one's interactions with other people, and naturally tending to reinforce and where necessary cultivate that quality in others.
You see? Love is not something you do at all. To use that word as a transitive verb shows a complete misunderstanding of the nature of love. You cannot love a person any more than a tree goes around treeing anybody!*
What I am saying is that at least most that we experience in life and have been conditioned to label as 'love' is actually not love at all and in most cases is distorted emotional energy that actually points us away from love and into unaware self-gratification and control / manipulation agendas, even if the latter feel subjectively wonderful. I would thus add that virtually ALL close human relationships throughout the planet are to some extent distorted and are not full manifestations of love, never mind how exalted, ecstatic or idyllic some of them may subjectively seem to be. That goes even for people who are apparently enlightened.
(his main recommendation is to)
Drop 'love' from your vocabulary! (Yes, seriously, because continuing to use that word and to treat love as something separate - an issue in its own right - is part of the problem and bound to keep you confused and off course!)
I agree with that!!
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