Saturday, February 16, 2008

Love or hatred

Continuing from my last post on the famous buddha quote "when we walk there is no walker, only the walk", I would try to point out some logical nuances between love and hatred.

Since now we know, that memory cannot be true, since memory is something recording of past, and the past is not something in this moment, it is not true. The feeling of hatred is based on this very memory.

You hate someone, because of some reason, he might have harmed you, caused you trouble, because of which you have a feeling of hatred for him. This is again a case of fallacy created by human mind.

How easily can a spiritual person overcome the feeling of agony and hatred?
This can simply be realized by realizing ( not by understanding ;-) ) that human memory creates the fallacy of these feelings.

On the other hand, love is not based on any past memory. If you feel love in looking at a flower, you do not love the flower because of its past. How was it developed, how did its seeds look like?. Also you do not love it because of its future. You only love the flower because of this moment. Because of truth.
Love is a true feeling. A spiritual person would be in love with this world. He would simply not hate anything, because hatred is not a true feeling. It is a false feeling being created by the human mind.

It is not that an enlightened would not remember anything. But the memory and mind loses its clutches on him. He is free, he is true, and he now cannot be deceived by something which is false, not even by his mind.

~Nshu

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