Can we learn to love each other?
I have been fighting for nearly 50 years for a revolution that is inevitable but may not occur in my lifetime. Not surprisingly to me, the same revolution was sought by Socrates, and others including Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, Zorasta and Lau Su.
What kind of a revolution? The answer is very simple, however, the reality and the application are intricate and can be mysterious, and therefore its simplicity is elusive.
When Jesus was asked about the Kingdom of God (or that perfect state of being) and how to get there, he said: “There are only two rules, love God with all your heart, all your mind and soul, and second is love your fellow human like you love yourself.”
He added that all the laws of all the prophets are hinged on those laws. Authors of every religion on the planet have said exactly the same thing, but in different languages.
Let's start with the first law, love of God. How can we love something that can’t be seen and will never be comprehended, because it goes beyond the limits of what can be calculated or imagined?
It's a huge challenge but the answer is to love everything, all of creation, or in other words give everything between the known, the unknown and the unknowable, its due reverence. You are an integral part of this unknowable whole and the essential link is consciousness, which indelibly exists for ever. Therefore, seek that awareness of the fact that you are eternity.
It is probably easy in our minds to love the oneness, we simply go off in seclusion or some meditative state, therefore it’s the second law – “love your neighbour as yourself” – that is the greater challenge. It is because the neighbour is Black, White, or Chinese, or Indian.
The neighbour is rich or poor, a noble or a rouge. The challenge is to see that there is no separation and that each is bound in the same infinity, innocent of our existence, are not another, but one.
Being one does not mean the crook and beneficent are the same, but it provides the river where love can flow that provides for adjustment, remedies and a pathway where healing can occur. In short, you cannot say you love God whom you cannot see, and hate those created. “I was in prison and you saw me not.“
I experienced this realisation 50 years ago and tried to break out of the prism of orthodoxy, cannons and religion conscripted by those tools that sapped the vitality out of truly living by providing a form with no substance.
Our politics followed the same hollow format, empty words disconnected from resolve or meaning. Ludwig Feuerbach famously said: “We are what we eat.”
That quote has profound meaning not limited to meaning the food we consume in our belly. What we think and say from our mouths all form part of a pseudo-representation of whom we identify as. There are endless types of pseudo-character identifications.
I wanted to break through the wall of pseudo character whether religious, political or social, with the hope of seeing authentic beings actualised and in step with the moment.
Perhaps that was too tall an order and an unrealistic expectation. The only value of saying so now is to post it on the proverbial door of the Cathedral as Martin Luther did in the 15th century, triggering the infamous “Diet of Worms”.
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