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One of the marvelous
creations of
all of your presence here is
love of self.
All of you can jump up and down saying
“I love myself, I love myself, I love myself.”
Now, that may sound like a crazy idea.
However, what if from the beginning of our life we had been told
to nurture that love of the self and
to say, “I love myself.”
and to have everyone around us join in
participate in
us loving ourselves and knowing exactly how to do that.
Whoever was teaching us knew exactly how
to train us in perfect love of self
which always includes love of everyone.
And so from the beginning of our life we would enjoy
the love of self we naturally enjoy anyway as a baby.
But then as we
had different
data stream in
to our completely open baby intelligence, we would
immediately recognize that as a shining reflection
of our own basic intelligence. Our own crystal ball-like intelligence.
Open and spacious like the sky.
When we have such information
we automatically know from the beginning then
that we aren’t a victim of any data.
This data is simply a self-reflection that it is pure.
Pure exactly like we are totally pure.
And it is
open, completely open and endless
always spontaneously present
in whatever is appearing now
and seamlessly indivisible
from all data.
Just like the sky
is seamlessly indivisible
from space.
When we learn these things even as adults
for many of us they take hold immediately.
We know that we’re hearing the truth about what we are and who we are
and this is really what love is. Self-love is
the accommodation seamlessly
of all data
with nothing left out.
And interestingly enough
adventitiously, circumstantially or
you could say by accident of birth or
or our situation, we each have
our own data set, our own data streams
whatever they might be.
And they’re unlike those of anyone else.
So we can say from that
while we are all indivisible and united and seamless
open intelligence
at the same time we are special and unique.
We each are special and unique.
And we have a
special set
of gifts, talents and strengths
to offer for the benefit of all.
We’re all born naturally in love
with our own appearance here
with our own self
and naturally in love with all other beings.
This is just the way it is, and part of that natural love
is the gift of sharing
our strengths, gifts and talents with everyone else.
Part of that gift is living
our life for the benefit of all
which always includes us of course.
And here you are
all of us with this gifted capacity from the beginning.
It's the most profoundly gifted a person can be.
So, if we think of all the people we know who have many, many different skills
and maybe they’re profoundly gifted
in a certain set of skills like engineering or baking cakes or whatever it might be
here we are, we’re all profoundly gifted
at love capacity.
We’re all profoundly gifted in love relationship.
And the more that we love ourselves
by allowing all of our data just to be as they are
to allow everything to be as it is
a magnificent
love reflection
a magnificent flow of pure open intelligence
open intelligence and love, perfect love, are synonymous
They’re synonymous. That means they mean the same thing.
Very often I don’t use the word “love” when I speak
because there is so much confusion about love.
And people associate love with
biological urges or
emotional urges that are
like an itch that can’t be scratched.
And so these urges
these itches
that we so long to scratch
that seem like they are love
most often they really aren’t love at all.
It's just the data stream whatever it is that somehow
hasn’t been yet clarified or outshone in open intelligence.
So particularly for
newcomers to love of self
it is good to give oneself a while
to become acquainted
with this zest of perfect love that everyone is.
It really is quite amazing.
Love, warmth and openness
these are
really natural to us.
This natural open intelligence that is the essence
of everything we perceive, including ourselves
is filled with love, warmth and openness.
By the simple practice
of letting our own data just be exactly as it is
then we come into
love for the first time.
The introduction to open intelligence
is the introduction to truly real love.
And it is the introduction to truly real love-relating.
And so first of all we need to
relate with ourselves totally and completely.
We need to relate with ourselves exactly as we are.
It doesn’t matter what is coming up or what it's labeled.
Leaving it as it is while we bask in open intelligence
is what it's all about.
We relax mind and body completely
in the openness of pure love
and pure love relationship. This is what a short moment is.
And by this power
we come into the field
of allowing ourselves to be exactly as we are.
We take off our “look good” suit of clothes
and we’re naturally naked
leaving everything as it is.
What a boon!
What good fortune!
Now, it may seem a little unusual at first because we’re trained
to be a certain way.
We need to have a certain
social skill set and a certain academic skill set
this, that and the other thing.
However
when we’re trained to be exactly as we are
and we really allow that training to be
self-driven so to speak
where we really recognize that our own self is open intelligence
our own self is perfect love
it never is anything other than love of self.
And this is what
infuses
pervades and fuels everything we think, feel, say or do.
When we become capable of this total and complete and accurate
authentic and genuine love of self
then we begin to be able
to enter into love relationship with others.
And so you see, it isn’t impossible at all
to have true love relating with others
truly beneficial relating with others
until we’re really able
to leave everything as it is
enjoying
ourselves as we are.