Love As a Circle

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In a message dated 6/16/2006 11:57:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

pliantheart writes:

 

> " Whenever love is withheld and suffering allowed to

> >spread, war

> >>>>>>becomes inevitable. Our indifference to our neighbor's

> >sorrow

> >>>brings

> >>>>>>suffering to our door. "

> >>>>>>

> >>>>>>nisargadatta

> >>>>>>

> >>>>>

> >>>>>

> >>>>>Love that can be withheld........is not love.

> >>>>>

> >>>>>There is no love in duality.

> >>>>>

> >>>>>

> >>>>>toombaru

> >>>>>

> >>>>

> >>>>openness and vulnerability not ventured up

> >>>>is love withheld.

> >>>>

> >>>>Bill

> >>>>

> >>>

> >>>this " opnness and vulnerability " is it focusing on the object...

> >>>or is it not focusing at all on anything ?

> >>>...iietsa

> >>>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>Focusing on nothing is still focusing.

> >>

> >>Discover the nature of the lense.

> >>

> >>(n : a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge

> >>transmitted light and to form images)

> >>

> >>and all questions evaporate.

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>toombaru

> >>

> >whenever there is focusing ... there is focusing on something...

> >if there is no focusing...then what...or is this just a stupid

> >question?

> >

>

> not a stupid question, but a rhetorical one

> as you obviously already know the answer.

>

> Bill

>

L.E: Imagine a state or condition of love as a circle surrounding you. Then

imagine pieces of the circle cut out like slices of a pizza. That is the kind

of love most people have or experience. A partial love, a conditioned love, a

love that is given to some and not to others. In the state or condition of

nirvana, univesal consciousness, fulfillment of being, etc, the circle of love

is full and complete with no pieces cut out and embraces everyone and

everything.

 

Larry Epston