THE HEART OF UNDERSTANDING by THICH NHAT HANH
“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. If we look even more deeply, we can see the sunshine, the logger who cut the tree, the wheat that became his bread, and the logger’s father and mother. Without all of these things, this sheet of paper cannot exist. In fact, we cannot point to one thing that is not here- time, space, the earth, the rain, the minerals in the soil, the sunshine, the cloud, the river, the heat, the mind. Everything co-exists with this sheet of paper. So we can say that the cloud and the paper ‘inter-are.’ We cannot just be by ourselves alone; we have to inter-be with every other thing.”
In common language this ‘inter-are’ is known as inter-dependence. When human beings understand this concept and accept it then unconditional love follows. Everyone is a part of everything and loving yourself will mean loving everything and so love will flow. I am the cloud, I am the paper and I am the tree, I am all one and I am all three!
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
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UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
All this control by the lover asking the love ones to change and vice versa causes the breakdown in relationships. Everything becomes a power game and love is lost. What is the answer to this, unconditional love? It is total acceptance without requiring any change, accepting each person as unique and different from us. You are perfect and I love you for what you are. Man’s conditional love has ruined the world the environment and all God’s beautiful gifts to make them perfect to suit human needs. In unconditional love the total acceptance without any change is what we have to accept. When you do this you start loving unconditionally.
All this control by the lover asking the love ones to change and vice versa causes the breakdown in relationships. Everything becomes a power game and love is lost. What is the answer to this, unconditional love? It is total acceptance without requiring any change, accepting each person as unique and different from us. You are perfect and I love you for what you are. Man’s conditional love has ruined the world the environment and all God’s beautiful gifts to make them perfect to suit human needs. In unconditional love the total acceptance without any change is what we have to accept. When you do this you start loving unconditionally.
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WHAT IS LOVE?
When you truly love someone, you become one with them. ? You want to share everything with them. Love and light operates on the basis of Loving and Sharing. Lovi ng and Caring to cover all of mankind .
But most people confuse liking and love. Because of this their love becomes conditional. Most human practice conditional love at all times. This kind of love is the same emotion as liking a person and comes from the ego. As we all know the ego is very controlling and negative. Because of this habit of the ego we forget love and start controlling the loved one. The belief of humans is I AM PERFECT, that is why I want to change you and to make you perfect just like me otherwise I cannot love you. The lover and the loved ones both believe this and in the battle of changing each other slowly start hating each other, then the love is lost. Indifference and hate, take the place of love.
THIS IS CONDITIONAL LOVE.
When you truly love someone, you become one with them. ? You want to share everything with them. Love and light operates on the basis of Loving and Sharing. Lovi ng and Caring to cover all of mankind .
But most people confuse liking and love. Because of this their love becomes conditional. Most human practice conditional love at all times. This kind of love is the same emotion as liking a person and comes from the ego. As we all know the ego is very controlling and negative. Because of this habit of the ego we forget love and start controlling the loved one. The belief of humans is I AM PERFECT, that is why I want to change you and to make you perfect just like me otherwise I cannot love you. The lover and the loved ones both believe this and in the battle of changing each other slowly start hating each other, then the love is lost. Indifference and hate, take the place of love.
THIS IS CONDITIONAL LOVE.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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ACTING WITH LOVE
He who wants to good knocks at the gates of heaven.
He who wants to love finds the gates open.
Acting outwardly or acting within we have to remember that in every relationship in every movement do you want to act out of love ? or do you want to act from a motive.
That is the question ?
He who wants to good knocks at the gates of heaven.
He who wants to love finds the gates open.
Acting outwardly or acting within we have to remember that in every relationship in every movement do you want to act out of love ? or do you want to act from a motive.
That is the question ?
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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One is watching the american elections with bated breath to see whether woman will win the election this will be a great triumph for women kind, because in the west for the first time a women will be head our country.
One is watching the american elections with bated breath to see whether woman will win the election this will be a great triumph for women kind, because in the west for the first time a women will be head our country.
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