Loving Kindness
Loving kindness Real love is not just love for some particular person, but the spiritual state of loving everybody. (Tolstoy)
Dear spiritual friend when we think about love, this brings up so many emotions of valued feelings and is welcomed by every single human being on the face of earth. Human beings are sacred beings who are able to feel this emotion named love, it makes us happy and at times it even makes us cry. There is different ways of determining the desired feeling called love, we all attend life different yet we are all searching to taste love on highest levels possible, because we know the emotional state this love feeling puts us, as if we are drunkard by it, most of us understand love to be the ultimate human emotion.
It can be defined as attachment; it also can be described as affectionate feelings. Yet as Tolstoy have said; it can be a state of loving everybody and life in general. No one can describe love with one word as it brings up different emotions in each and every one of us. Can we cultivate this emotion called love? And your answers maybe “definitely” as we all have different ways of expressing this emotion. I believe our natural state in our hearts to be simply “love” and in life because we are faced with negative ness and challenge and so on, then this side of us get buried deep down in our hearts always seeking to be resurfaced.
There are paths we can cultivate and focus on, that will resurface this love flower to sprout its branches in the garden of life we all walk in. By learning to be aware, by learning to attend spirituality we can water our hearts loving potential, also you may be familiar with this term “what you sow is what you reap” this is really a good point when we search for love to find its ways to our lives and our hearts. Because when we attend important things in nature “especially the nature of your own heart” then this will allow time and space to resurface your soul out in life on more occasions, thus then your hearts purity and warmth can be felt for that next person you walk by, for that friend or for that total stranger, because we all feel the same desire.
There are many personal methods we can act upon thus we feel love and loved. To feel love and attract it more into our lives, we first need know it and trust life thus this trust will cultivate our own hearts, to reflect its essence out and this can be accomplished by eliminating negative and unwanted human qualities. Example of the negative thoughts we can eliminate maybe; hostility, unkindness, anger, and so on. Once again we all have different methods of eliminating these unwelcome emotions such misunderstanding, these could be offering support to a homeless person or donating to charity or praying, and meditating, the list can go on, as it is a personal choice to give love thus we receive more (simply imagine a power point and your heart is that power point). When ever we act out of kindness of heart, doesn't that make you feel alive? doesn't that act of kindness and compassion make you feel who you really are. Abundant. In that very moment of you giving from your heart, you magically without knowing become aware of the purity of your being. Because in fact your being in essence is simply, pure and whole some love.
Spiritual love seems to be the foundation to attend to universal love we all understand. Thus we say we understand love and if we don’t get it as much as we think we deserve then we get unhappy and so on. I will remind you and say we need to always cultivate our own hearts potential thus we may feel more loving feelings, regardless of circumstances outside. Life is short as we all know. It is not worth it to be angry. Because universes delays are not its denials
There is a spiritual story of a man who spends much time on learning and meditating on patience, to eliminate the emotion called anger, and his close friend brings him a plate of food and seeing him meditating he asks “you are meditating again, what are you meditating on this time?” and the practitioner replies “I am practicing meditation on patience – a patience such that, no matter what anyone does, I will not get angry” and his friend again asks “what did you say?” and once again he replies “A patience such that, no matter what anyone does I will not get angry” Then his friend puts the plate of food in front of him and says “in that case eat sh%#” And the meditator says “you eat Sh_%#” His friend who brought the food picks the plate up and without getting angry leaves. The meditator reflects on it “my friend did not get angry, but I got very angry, maybe he was testing me” As you can see this test from his friend gave the meditator a measure of what impatience is.
In life we need to cultivate patience and whom ever is negative they also can be thought of our spiritual teachers because negativity tests us and teaches us to be patient. And we always learn and all roads will lead to the answer that is already within your heart. Just like a seed that wants to sprout and let its beautiful scented rose out. Our hearts are made for feeling love, it is a garden to water nurture and honor our soul’s reality. Because it is your soul that loves, that is love. Just like if we wanted to know and learn the nature of a car and figure out how it came to be, then with reason and logic we will think that; its made in a factory by many people and all the components are taken from different places and eventually the metal that is used to make that car was taken out from earth (through mining) and when it is old and had its used by date will probably end up in wreckers thus this is how we find out how and where it came from. Things beginning will let us know how and why, and your beginning is soul, in spirituality.
Therefore study your heart your soul your spirit (you) Become a hunter. Be a hunter and make love your target. Find its paths study its core essence learn its movements. You are a hunter and your pray is now “love” and I promise you, in your heart, you will find all the love, worth "eternity"
Yours Spiritually
Tolga Savas (Top)