For several millennia, we have heard about
Love. Buddha, in his time, was already talking about it, seeking to give an
example of behavior based on sweetness, gentleness, and kindness, teaching that
all should seek these virtues within themselves, seeking enlightenment. He
sought to teach everyone his philosophy of inner enlightenment, and that this
enlightenment should be sought within, within thyself. He taught that they were
all "Buddhas", they just did not know it yet. But the only way to
seek this knowledge was to turn inward, seeking the knowledge in thy heart.
Many thousand years later, in the most western
part of the world, there was another Master who came bringing this newness
called "Love". We were at the height of the Roman Empire, and the
Jews suffered this yoke of domination. The news between them was that there
would be a Messiah who would deliver them from Roman domination. Based on the
Jewish culture preached at the time, a great expectation was created around a
great warrior who would come to free them, with his sword in hand, protected by
the force of the Jewish tyrant God, ready to judge and to punish the infidels.
It was the law of Talion, it was the eye for an eye, tooth for tooth!
But the great disappointment of the Jews of
that time was when they were confronted with a madman who came to question all
the teachings of the priests of that time, teaching that the truth was in the
"Love of your neighbor, as you love yourself". That was the great
law! Love your neighbor just as you love yourself! Love your enemies! Forgive
your brother, not 7 times, but 70 times 7 times! "How so?!" Everyone
had heard of Love, but no one recognized that they could Love their enemies.
What was he talking about?! And where did he come from? What was his lineage,
his backgrounds? Why did this so-called "Messiah", called Jesus,
contest the religious of the time, the great authorities, the Priests, when he
should be facing the tyranny of Rome? Was he really the promised
"Messiah"?! "Better crucify him, for he does not attend to our
interests!"
And again the message of Love was ignored.
Many years later, more precisely in the 60's,
there was the great Hippie Movement of Peace and Love. Again, the subject of
Love was surfacing. Several enlightened young people came to awaken to the
truth of Love to others, inspired by the teachings from the East, from the
Buddhists of that time, questioning the society and traditions of that time.
Everything could have worked very well, if not for a "but": all this
illumination was achieved at the expense of hallucinogens and drugs of all
kinds. All very artificial! And what we got was a whole generation of chemical
addicts, addicted to all kinds of drugs. And the movement lost its credibility.
Of course, not everything was in vain! We lived
a new Age of discovery of what at that time was considered a human emotion,
called Love! With the advent of Psychology and all scientific disciplines
focused on the study of human behavior, the said "Love" had reached
the status of feeling. And with all the advent of the sexual revolution of that
time, marital unions began to be guided by this new feeling.
Strangely, what we had was a contrary move than
could be expected! Although at that time we had a large number of stable unions
that lasted for years and years, what happened was that the number of marital
separations increased a lot. "What do you mean?! Were they not marrying
for love? "
Again I want to remind you that all the texts
that I will be writing will be referring to the previous texts. Do you remember
the text I wrote about marriage earlier? Osho made it very clear: what happened
was that people began to discover that although they were getting married by a
certain sentiment called "Love," they eventually discovered that they
were actually missing with Love for the main person they were to truly love: themselves!
"Really? Wasn’t it Love what I felt when I got married?
I was so in love... "
This concept of Love that was created is in
fact much more connected to desire and to a need for possession of the desired
object than properly Love. The choice of matrimonial candidates has always been
associated more with materialistic aspects than properly with Love as it should
be. In this process, we began to choose for our candidates for marriage those
who were physically attractive, or very rich, or who gave us material comfort,
or who showed us a psychological profile of someone we wanted to be but who we
could not be. The old story of the opposites that attract each other! But this
has always been an enormous torture over time, because our concept of love
encompassed something that did not marry the truth of Love: a certain need to
control the loved one, to possess it.
What hurts the most in Love is not this feeling
invented by cheap human psychology, but the need we create in ourselves to
possess the loved one. All current society has been built around the desire to
possess, and that is what destroys us. I have observed people who, within their
personal pains, insist that they love more animals than people. Why? What do animals
have different from us? They justify their responses by claiming that animals
know how to love unconditionally. However, the real truth is that domestic pets
can be owned! When we adopt or buy a domestic animal, it actually creates a
bond of dependency with its owner, and in that way he will never leave the one
who gives him food and bed to sleep. Much more than affection, it is a survival
instinct!!!
It does not mean that animals do not feel love
for their owners! Of course they have Love in them, and without a doubt we can
learn from them what it means to love unconditionally! Even though they stay
there because they have food and a warm bed...
And what happens most often when a person gets disillusioned
with "Love" is that she begins to feel a great sadness after the
separation, an emptiness provoked by the rupture of that affective bond.
And why does this happen? Why does an affective
breakdown strike us so deeply?
Because Love, with capital L, is much more than
a feeling! It's an energy! Or is it THE Energy?!
Let’s understand this! We are beginning to
learn that we are energy in motion, much more than matter. We are spirits in
bodies of flesh, but these bodies themselves are not composed of inert matter,
but of vibratory particles, as quantum physics reveals. That is, even though
incarnated in bodies of dense matter, yet what keeps our molecules together is
energy, and that energy can also be classified as Love!
Love is an energy that holds everything in this
united universe. It is what brings us closer and keeps us connected with the
Creation, which is pure Love! And because we are Love, we cannot stop
expressing this Love in our lives. Even if we live in isolation in this world,
we feel the need to feel connected to something. Whether it is bound to nature,
or a pet, which will be depending on its owner until the end of its life, or to
objects or a habit... We will always feel the need to be connected to something
or someone. And when that connection breaks for some reason, it shakes us
deeply. Do not tell me that you never felt guilty about throwing away that pet
typewriter you always used to write your books, but now you use a computer to
type them!
And I said that it was going to be a brief
story... It could not be shorter! Finally, to conclude, I want only to add that
if we want to learn to "Love Unconditionally", that is, to learn what
Love truly is, we need to combat in ourselves this need to possess whatever it
is. We are all just passing through matter, so we do not even own our bodies!
But as long as we are in possession of it, we must rather treat it with much
Love, until the moment of farewell.
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