Twisted love is still love. So everything is love in one form or another. The problem is, God is having to push through our ignorance. Manifestation is love; just twisted love; twisted because of us. If we give up our wrong understanding and let God be the doer, and we no longer believe we are the center of attention, then God will shine through each of us as pure love.
The question is: is the manifested world pure love, and we are just not able to see it? Or is it also twisted love as we are, because of wrong understanding? Are we just wrongly entangled in nature as we are in our lives? If we disentangle and non-attach, nature and all our vehicles will become clear and still and allow God to express through all of us and the material world as Love.
Are you not bored with your vehicles? Are you not sick of your narrative?
Are you not bored with your five senses? Living life at first level is going to be relating through your five senses only unless you move on. Relating with your life using the five senses, even with discipline, is functioning at first level. We are in a beginner ritual. This way of relating with life is no different than performing rote rituals. Whether you are doing rituals like washing statues, singing hymns, or reciting prayers in different ancient languages, you are still practicing first level. There is nothing wrong with this focus as long as we realize we are not going to get to the final perfection if we only follow this practice.
So if you are approaching your life as an empty ritual without anything deeper, then it does not matter where you are. Whether you are in a monastery, an ashram, a city, or a suburb, your life and all your actions will remain without the richness of God. Do you report your life or live/share your life? Why are you so attached to just going through the motions? You do not realize it; you believe you are contributing to world peace, but you are really contributing to world inertia.
We should not be attached to our rituals or our lives. They come from the same place and our job is to transcend both. God should be our focus, and we should not be distracted by life, whether in the form of mundane or sublime activity. If we see either kind of activity as the pinnacle, then we have missed the point.
We may begin to ponder, question and study; this is better but still only second level. Not until we are practicing the third level can richness be consistently infused into our rituals and mundane life. Being still, resting in the Heart, and functioning in the world is how we live life to the fullest. We then live our lives, perform our rituals, but our focus is on God in our Hearts always.
Do you want to have and allow God to play or are you still so attached to being in control? The purpose of life is to have God play, and we so want to be involved and make decisions instead of God. We have forgotten our place. Someone, one of us or all of us, has to let God in on the game. As long as we are all involved in our lives, God is on the bench. And at the same time, no one is willing to step up to the plate and give it their all. We live as if our lives had some importance. If we were to give up our attachment to the part we are playing, we would actually have a chance to express the love of God in everything we do. Now that would truly be magnificent.
If I am trying to change the outside, then that effort is still just twisted Love. If I let God be the doer, then He can actually change the outside. We have to get out of the way to let God play. Let us work to untwist the love we share by having God share God’s love through us.
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