Peter Ralston On LOVE - Newsletter Response

[Breakingthewall]

Ralston's problem is the problem of many schools of Buddhism: they don't understand love as a path to openness. For them, love is a mammalian feeling, and ultimate realization is empty consciousness. This is a total mistake.

Empty consciousness is a prerequisite, not the final realization. Love is understood as devotion or the absolute surrender of the individual to reality.

The empty mind is still closed; total surrender is necessary, and this surrender is an act of total love. In it, emptiness opens, and in doing so, it reveals the totality. The totality is enclosed in your heart; it is your heart. Not in the sentimental sense, but in the sense of that which lives, that which is.

Ralston is closed to glory, and like all those who are like him, he doesn't want to listen. Precisely because he is closed. As a Christian would say, they lack faith.

Edited 5 hours ago by Breakingthewall