Questions About Love

[Stephen]

What is the role of suffering in regards to love ? 

 

( I think this sums up a lot of questions I see here - And I would also like to know ) 

[fridjonk]

2 hours ago, James123 said:

My mind and me as body is an illusion.

8:58 This western Advaita that it's all an illusion has got to end! You won't awaken if you believe everything's an illusion. 

[Nak Khid]

Is Love an illusion ?

[James123]

7 minutes ago, fridjonk said:

8:58 This western Advaita that it's all an illusion has got to end! You won't awaken if you believe everything's an illusion. 

When you dont know, you become that untouchable pure consciousness. Body will Not disappear, but it will be no differences than air. Because with knowing you have become a person or you have the body. Dont listen people who still have so called mind. 

 

[seeking_brilliance]

(recounted while I think of a better question)

 Is love a verb, noun, both or neither? 

Edited July 26, 2020 by seeking_brilliance

[seeking_brilliance]

Q: who, when, what, where, why? 

A: love

But leo....

 Bonus question: how? 

Edited July 26, 2020 by seeking_brilliance

[NorthNow]

What is the relationship between love and shame? Is taboo love just love that society frowns upon? Is love just a chemical process in my brain?

[Nak Khid]

Love is more than acceptance in my opinion 

If you accept death as an inevitability that doesn't mean you want to die or are happy about dying.  

If you need a shot of medicine you accept the pain of being stuck with  needle
or the the drill of a root canal. But is this love because it is acceptance? 

  Why take a beautiful word like "love" and relegate it to simply giving up when you realize  resisting is hopeless? 
"Surrendering to God", that's good
but what about surrendering to a military invasion by an overwhelming large group of  fascists?  You might choose to accept it rather than be killed
but is that acceptance love or practicality?  Surrendering to anything more powerful, is that is love ? 
Is accepting everything better because everything is included? 

If you accept that fact  that murder and rape go on in the world
you don't have to accept a particular potential rape or murder you might be able to prevent  
but to do so Is that love?   or is it apathy labeled love? 

Do we believe that loving everything is better because it's loving more things? 
If you love murders and also love feeding starving children is this infinite love?  

Is creation so wonderful that we are expected to love watching a mob stomping somebody to death? 

If we can image an extreme "absolute" or "infinite" or "unconditional" love
are we to discard all ethics or accept any behavior because to not accept it would be leaving something out 
and then we couldn't apply these "unlimited"  "absolute"   Infinite" 
 purest words ? 
 

 

 

Edited July 26, 2020 by Nak Khid

[NorthNow]

Are there different types of love? Platonic, sexual, familial? What about "perverted" forms of love? Pedophiles, zoophiles etc.

[M89]

Let's suppose everything is Love and God is Love.

Does this mean that if I have to choose between "mind" and "heart", then the heart-based decision is always better? Does this mean that "good feelings" imply more consciusness and are closer to God than intelligent and "objective" decisions? (I don't think so)

Is the feeling of love a prerequisite for acting out of love? Can I be loving without "feeling" love? If my choice and action is based on genuine feeling of love, does this mean that I accumulate "good karma" (even if I cause suffering with that)? What is the relationship between the feeling of love and real acts of love?

[Member]

6 hours ago, Nak Khid said:

Do we believe that loving everything is better because it's loving more things? 

If you love murders and also love feeding starving children is this infinite love? 

Quality is more important than quantity. Simplicity (rather than complexity or chaos) leads to Pure Love. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, relative becomes absolute etc. etc. God/Life/Love is what you make of it. If you create an ugly monster and call it Love, it won't change the fact that it's still an ugly monster.

[M89]

Let's suppose there is a range from lower forms of love (cheap, sentimental, "romantic", chemically-induced, ego-based, emotional, survival oriented attachment) to higher forms of love (unconditional, "spiritual", pure, real love).

How can I distinguish the two forms of love? What is common in them?

Where is motherly love in this scale? Is it just cheap biology or real love?

[M89]

Love is associated with feminine energy. If this is correct, and God is Love, then God would have only feminine qualities. This seems not to be the case.

If love is not just feminine, what does the masculine side of love look like?

Edited July 26, 2020 by M89

[Gesundheit]

Isn't love just a thought?

[peanutspathtotruth]

After realization of Infinite love, which practices do you find most potent to purify this vehicle to receive and emit more love, more unimpeded?

In other words: How do we serve love? How do we become the impeccable, utterly pure "warriors" of Truth? There is truly nothing else to want for "me".

[Himanshu]

• How are Love and Responsibility related? If I am infinitely loving, am I infinitely responsible? How does that play out in everyday human relationships?
• How are Love and Presence related?

I realize that Love dramatically enhances my presence in a situation, which I would have otherwise tried to escape in subtle ways. Please comment on that. 

• What are some practices to contemplate Love in everyday life? How to get a direct taste of infinite love?

 

[Someone here]

On 7/25/2020 at 10:38 AM, roopepa said:

"Eternal name" is not the eternal name either.

Of course language is limited. Everyone here trying explain Love to you knows that.

Yes because the eternal has no name because it is all names! 

Edited August 1, 2020 by Someone here

[Dazgwny]

This isn’t so much of a question but more of a statement. I was tripping hard on lsd and was in no doubt at the time I was experiencing infinity. It was surrounding me 360 like spaghetti or noodles or something like that. I can’t explain I could just see it, I was it. Now when I look back I wonder was this really the case. Maybe that’s my ego, I don’t know. But I remember so clearly, in the moment, how clear this was, that I was all of it. And my amazement about it all was that this was the greatest love of all. Infinity. How could it not be. The opportunity to be anything and everything possible. To run through every possible life and go through every possible experience, just everything that could ever be. And still be there at the end of it all. Infinite lives infinite deaths, but yet you, i, the real you, is still just there. This to me felt like seems I’m the only thing that exists, then to do this was the ultimate gift of love to myself. And not the small me, the individual human I am at this time, but to the full me, the only me, the only thing in existence. Why not just be everyone and everything possible. But simultaneously it was the greatest gift to the small me, the little human I am now at present, to realise I was all, I was the lot. Just somehow presently being conscious of this one life. It was incredible. That to me, was the greatest act of love to myself, to enable myself to experience everything. But like I say looking back, I still just don’t feel I’ve got it. I havnt got this stuff sussed. It’s like I’ve had it, but I just ain’t got it. I still can’t see how I’m doing it. And that is what I want to know, or understand, or however ya want to put it. Never mind. But that’s what I felt about love

[Mannyb]

@99alvarosanchez wow thank you, I’ve been feeling a lot of love today, it was almost unbearable. Have been breathing in the sun in the morning and meditating before falling asleep. Have had a a dream last night full of love and the feeling just kept being there upon waking.

[Kazman]

is deep meaningful unconditional lifelong love possible between man and woman?