All We Want is Love

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Our own idea of ourselves and our own idea of the world we perceive to be outside of our skin are what are keeping spontaneity from arising. That means that our actions are not honest. They are not guided by the moment, or God. God and moment are one. Moment brings in no ideas or images. When I say “this moment,” where are the universal images? When I say “God,” this brings in a whole host of mental images and ideas. So when I say “moment,” what I mean is “God.” And action spawning in the moment without the entanglement of thoughts connected to memories of past and ideas of now and future are the very universe itself expressing itself outside of the illusion of a “someone” responsible as the cause of such things.

I see shy people. I see many 5^th Chakras closed and fearfully protected. It is obvious to the more free and less inhibited among us that it is a perception of self and world that is the inhibitor for the shy. The perception of self is in relation to the perception of world. Both are always incorrect in that they are simply idols and not the actual reality, which requires no ideas in order to be. After 5 billion years of the Earth's hypothesized existence, never once has the living planet required a thought or concept or perception in order to continue on.

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The way we see ourselves and our world influences our behaviors and our personalities. All stems from the mind. The truth is never what we think. So the saddest state of affairs is that the majority of the most divinely capable and developed beings on Earth are in their own self-constructed prison. This is called a “point of view” or “perception.”

Truth be told, there is no difference of self and world. There is no boundary of self encapsulated within a bag of aging skin versus the world outside of this walking space-suit. In the absence of thoughts or the absence of clinging to them there is only a whole universe.

I think that I'm writing this right now in consideration of the people who are still confused and highly upset over the harmful deeds of other human beings. Firstly, sometimes we are addicted to feeling the pain of witnessing or becoming aware of violent and ignorant actions that cause harm to people. We allow these feelings we feel to identify us as the opposite of the “problems” we perceive in the world. If we feel strongly and painfully and tormentingly toward the violent and murderous behaviors of our fellow humans, we then must be the opposite of this ignorance, thus we consider ourselves “conscious” or “enlightened” or “above” or “better-than” or “deep.” Yet this is simply another trap. Best to simply understand and let compassion prevail.

How can we understand truly horrific deeds and behaviors in the world of human beings? Let me give you an example. In my studies of serial killers I noted a few things all serial killers have in common. When asked, “Why do you choose victims that you do not know? Why do you gag your victims and refuse to look at their ID cards?” the majority of these people answer that the reason why they choose victims they do not know and refuse to learn anything about them is because “it would ruin the fantasy.” The fantasy is to kill what inside is considered to deserve hate and extinguishing.

When John Wayne Gayce was a child his mother would make him go a long time without a hair-cut and his father would beat him and call him a queer for having long hair. His biggest fear as a child was of clowns. When he grew up he would dress like a clown and go out and find young men who looked gay and he would kidnap them, torture them, and kill them. When a serial killer says that the reason he doesn't choose victims that he knows is because “it would ruin the fantasy,” what he is really saying is, “It is much harder to project the inward idea of what is to be hated and destroyed onto people if their voice or smell or movement or anything that are particular to them doesn't match up with the inward idea I carry about what is completely non-acceptable."

Understanding this, we can see that even the actions of serial killers stem out of the desire to be accepted unconditionally. Trying to kill what his father saw in his son as unacceptable is the way John Wayne Gayce unconsciously attempted to earn his father's love. All actions on the Earth by all people on the Earth always stem out of a desire to be completely accepted and loved unconditionally. This is the highest truth, one that enables compassion to allow us to offer the world of people the very thing every person truly desires most. Thankfully, the initial torment and inward confusion and hurt experienced by those who cannot understand the harmful deeds of other people is the first step that inevitably leads the seeker toward this high understanding of where all people truly operate from. Wouldn't it make sense that all anyone ever really wants is love? And wouldn't it make sense that all actions we would consider disharmonious and hurtful all stem from people denied love at some point?

There is no easy way to see outside of the illusion of a self apart from a world. The     best way is to have a deep and penetrating look at the situation. A person who sees the world as a dangerous place also sees themselves as victims or weaklings. And a person who sees the world as a safe place full of beauty also views themselves as able and worthy of a happy life. Even in views, we cannot separate the interdependent and unified oneness of the universe.

It is the simplest thing imaginable to simply realize the illusion of a solid reality in perception. A while back when I used to drive I had to get a pre-registration sticker for my car while taking it through the smog process. This sticker had a number signifying the month by which the car was to have been smog checked and fully registered, which allowed it to be driven until then. I had absolutely no idea that these things, the pre-registration stickers, even existed. But once I got one myself and put it on my car I then started seeing them everywhere. They had always been there. But my limited perspective was never aware of them. And so I say to any doubts you have and to all of the pessimists there may be out there, “Go out and find some beauty, some love, some truth, some bliss, and then, once you are aware that it actually exists, you will start to see it everywhere."

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