मैं देखता हूँ , कि बहुत सारे लोग दुनिया की समस्याओं के बारे में बात कर रहे हैं लेकिन बहुत कम लोग उसके समाधान के बारे में बातकर रहे हैं: प्रेम
हालाँकि हम अक्सर इसे अटपटा बनाने की कोशिश करते हैं , लेकिन वास्तव में यह बहुत सरल बात है…
जब लोग प्रेम पर ध्यान केंद्रित करते हैं तो युद्ध जारी रखना बहुत कठिन होता है।
जब लोग प्रेम में एक साथ सहयोग कर रहे हों तो आर्थिक संकट आने की संभावना बहुत कम होती है।
जब लोग पृथ्वी के साथ प्यार भरा बर्ताव कर रहे होते हैं तो माल सामान एक जगह से दूसरी जगह लाने - ले जाने में दिक़्क़त आने कीऔर पर्यावरण को नुक़सान पहुँचने की सम्भावना बहुत कम हो जाती है।
और फिर कुछ लोग कहते हैं:
आह... लेकिन आपके लिए यह कहना आसान है, क्योंकि आपके पास कुछ ख़ास अधिकार है!
लेकिन ख़ास अधिकारों का क्या फायदा अगर यह प्रेम के लिए इस्तेमाल नहीं किया जाते हैं ?
जब तथाकथित विशेषाधिकार प्राप्त लोग प्रेम भी नहीं कर सकते हैं तो किसी और से कैसे उम्मीद की जा सकती है?
मैं कहता हूं कि प्रेम करना विशेषाधिकार प्राप्त लोगों का कर्तव्य है, क्योंकि यदि वे ऐसा नहीं करते हैं तो उनके पास असल में कोईविशेषाधिकार हैं ही नहीं!
क्योंकि जीवन में एकमात्र सच्चा विशेषाधिकार प्रेम करना है।
और फिर कुछ कहते हैं:
लेकिन कई लोग ऐसे हैं जो इस विचार पर हंसेंगे... इसका मज़ाक़ उड़ाएँगे ... यहां तक कि लड़ें भी!
और मैं तुमसे कहता हूं:
मैंने कभी प्रेम के खिलाफ ठोस तर्क नहीं सुना।
और मैंने कभी ऐसे सम्मोहक भविष्य का सपना नहीं देखा जिसमें प्रेम शामिल न हो।
और जिस किसी से मैं कभी भी मिला हूं, जो प्रेम के बिना रहा है, वह स्पष्ट रूप से दर्द और पीड़ा में है।
और फिर भी कुछ और भी हैं जो कहते हैं कि यह उच्च विचार वाला आदर्शवाद है और वास्तविकता यह है कि हम सभी को कभी भी एकमत पर नहीं ला सकेंगे।
और मैं उनसे कहता हूं कि मानवता ने कभी भी कुछ भी मूल्यवान हासिल नहीं किया है जब तक कि उच्च विचारधारा वाले आदर्शवादी खेल में न हो ...
इतिहास आदर्शवादी, और प्रेरित लोगों के छोटे समूहों के दुनिया को बदलने वाले उदाहरणों से भरा है
और फिर भी मैं कहता हूं कि मानव रूप में प्रेम होने की कोई आदर्श अवस्था नहीं है।
यह एक ऐसा चुनाव है जिसे आप बार-बार करते हैं...
यह उस सिद्धांत के प्रति प्रतिबद्धता है जिसे आप अपने निश्चित होने वाले भटकाव के बावजूद वापस लौटते हैं ...
यह एक मापदंड है जिसे आप अपने सभी निर्णयों के लिए धारण करते हैं ... आपकी सभी पसंद ... आपके सभी रिश्ते ...
कि आप उन्हें मापते हैं-
कि आप बेहद दर्द का भी सामना पूरी हिम्मत के साथ करते हैं…
कि जब आप खो जाते हैं तो भी आप वापस आ जाते हैं।
यह प्रेम हैं।
एक अलग सा एहसास होगा और आपको पता चल जाएगा कि प्रेम आपको मिल गया है।
अंतत: यही मानवता की एकमात्र समस्या है,
कि हम प्रेम की इस भावना से अलग हो गए हैं।
अन्य सभी मुद्दों की जड़ें यहीं हैं।
और इस प्रकार यह हमारी एकमात्र सच्ची आवश्यकता है - इस एहसास पर लौटने की।
दुनिया आपको अलग रास्ते पर ले जाने की भरपूर कोशिश करेगी।
और सही पूछो तो अभी पूरी ताक़त लगा कर, अभी कर ही रही है!
या
आप इसे कैसे देखते हैं, इस पर निर्भर है ..
आपको असीम अवसर मिल रहे हैं , अथाह गहराइयों में जाकर प्रेम को अपनाने के।
मनन के लिए मूल प्रश्न: आप इस धारणा से कैसे संबंधित हैं कि हमारी दुनिया की समस्याओं का समाधान प्रेम है? क्या आप कोई व्यक्तिगत कहानी साझा कर सकते हैं जब आपने किसी समस्या के समाधान के रूप में प्रेम की कोशिश की हो? प्रेम भाव में बने रहने में क्या बात आपकी मदद करती है?
Justin Faerman is a consciousness researcher and an entrepreneur.
Seed Questions for Reflection
How do you relate to the notion that the solution to our world's problems is love? Can you share a personal story of a time you tried love as a solution to a problem? What helps you stay rooted in love?
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Skye
Mar 18, 2023
Thank you🙏🌀🦋Infinite blessings & gratitude for this beautiful message & powerful reminder of the Truth🌸✨🕉️
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Tithi Adikary
Mar 10, 2023
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Loren
Sep 16, 2022
Love is in, points to, and comes from, the details.
Love healing and fixing everything is a high minded ideal. I agree with it, and also with the opinion that it is difficult to everyone on board with this beautiful ideal of love. So, it begins with each of us choosing how we respond to others and to situations. Our personal choice is the power and it is the only thing we control and the only way we can impact a situation and create that beginning ripple of love in circumstances and situations. Love can be demonstrated in so many ways, too: empathy, simple listening to another, a hug for another, selfless acts of kindness, to name a few. I'd like to see more love and also more recognition by each of us of the love and loving acts we receive and witness... Cheers to love!
Knowing oneself initiates oneness with universe and fosters LOVE, which in turn makes us the privileged one !
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jude
Sep 13, 2022
the death of her Majesty the Queen of England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Island is such an illustration of how it is love --- for her and for what she represented in the best of humanity -- which has connected so many millions around the British Isles, and in many places around the world. It is so simple, in a way....and much to do with how men and boys, as well as we women and children and this planet....have been divorced from our vulnerable feelings in the patriarchal systems that dominate the world as we cannot quantify what is the essence of humanity -- our hearts and souls. So I thank Queen Elisabeth for the example she set and let us hope and pray that her son, King Charles and his family will retain their caring and concern for the future.
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David DoaneSep 14, 2022
I hope women will be more and more involved and lead in a way that is caring and working together and helps us all to reconnect with our vulnerable feelings. I hope women will lead in a woman way -- don't become like men.
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Jen Delaney
Sep 13, 2022
As a body-centered (Brainspotting) trauma therapist, I see that love and joy can feel too foreign to a client's body to sustain it. I have them practice it, alternating between the pain that they know so well and this new feeling of love and peace. More people need to be doing their trauma work so that their bodies can know and sustain love. The way I stay rooted is with a morning practice that includes Reiki, A Course in Miracles and Insight meditation. Wishing you all Serenity, Freedom & Joy... and, of course, Love!
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judy carranSep 13, 2022
Congratulations on your devotion to helping others heal. I too teach trauma recovery with many tools. I have explored many paths and methods. Love and compassion are what we bring to others so they feel safe to heal.
Blessings for your path.
In English we use the word "love" to mean a LOT of different things with a common theme of just that emotional response. Like the taste of a favorite food, or infatuation, or the relationship roles life bestows on us. Yet the more deeply committed (heroic even) love willing to voluntarily sacrifice itself uses the same word. Deeper yet is the infinite all-inclusive "unconditional love" ascribed to God (Agape in Greek) which leaves nothing out. Sanskrit has the word "Metta" to describe all-inclusive loving-kindness which seems the same to me (but without the implied personification of "God"). In any case, our finite ego cannot hope to manufacture or produce such Love, yet we CAN perhaps recognize, appreciate, value, and resonate with such infinite Love.
To identify "love" only as a transient feeling does not really have much power to change anything (as pleasant as it may feel). Infinite Unconditional Love (Agape? Metta?) fits better in this passage but is quite impossible for a ... View full comment
In English we use the word "love" to mean a LOT of different things with a common theme of just that emotional response. Like the taste of a favorite food, or infatuation, or the relationship roles life bestows on us. Yet the more deeply committed (heroic even) love willing to voluntarily sacrifice itself uses the same word. Deeper yet is the infinite all-inclusive "unconditional love" ascribed to God (Agape in Greek) which leaves nothing out. Sanskrit has the word "Metta" to describe all-inclusive loving-kindness which seems the same to me (but without the implied personification of "God"). In any case, our finite ego cannot hope to manufacture or produce such Love, yet we CAN perhaps recognize, appreciate, value, and resonate with such infinite Love.
To identify "love" only as a transient feeling does not really have much power to change anything (as pleasant as it may feel). Infinite Unconditional Love (Agape? Metta?) fits better in this passage but is quite impossible for a finite ego to manufacture or produce. Fortunately (being infinite) that unconditional Love is already here in EVERY moment of now, and we CAN recognize, appreciate, enjoy, spend time with, value, foster and multiply, cooperate with, identify ourselves with, and celebrate that Love!
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GururajSep 15, 2022
Wonderfully well written , Ted. Thanks. May the resonance happen often.
"In each moment I choose love or fear." I am writing this at 3:56 am...why?....because it is another opportunity to chose love over fear. Thank you for this opportunity!!!
The Beatles sang it in a national broadcast, "All you need is love". Some say what a silly song, rather naive. Well who criticized the song got things all wrong. John Lennon tells of time when he was five. Asked him to write what he wanted to be when he grew up. John wrote I want to be happy. The teacher said he did not understand the question. Reflecting on this comment, John said the teacher did not understand life. Without love one cannot find happiness.
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Jon WilliamsSep 12, 2022
How do edit a comment, should read those who, A teacher asked him.
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David DoaneSep 13, 2022
Thank you for that vignette -- it's touching; it says a lot.
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jagger
Sep 12, 2022
Yes, allowing oneself to feel love, even when the situation does not necessarily compel you to be loving, is the most difficult but the most gratifying human act. I experienced this when my ex-wife threw me out of her house and called the cops just to try to frame me in a crime, even when it was absolutely clear to anyone, that i was innocent. In this situation I COULD have justifiable been angry and get vengeful towards her. However, I was kind towards her, and this is what has made a difference in my life.
I believe the solution to our world's problems is love. Love is oneness, and is the oneness of all that is. To live in and act from awareness of oneness is to live in love, which results in caring and working together and peace which would be the solution to our world's problems. As for a personal story, there is a man who cheated me out of money years ago which resulted in my feeling resentment toward him on top of my not agreeing with him about many things and my not liking him. When I remind myself that we are different but we are one, love overrides my resentment and my disliking him, I let go of all that, and love is the solution to my problem. What helps me stay rooted in love is my conviction that all is one and my reminding myself that all is one, and when I do that I am rooted in and living in love.
It is my experience and understanding that unconditional love can solve world's mutiple problems on different dimensions of life: physical, mental, emotional, relational, natural and environmental. Love unites people regardless of external or outward differences. Love is sharing. Love is giving. Love is offering. Love is serving and nurturing. Love is connecting. In the world we live in there is a lot of divsivenes. We need to find a common ground based on emapathic underrstanding and compassion to respect people with different ideologies without fighting and hating.If we do not wake up the future looks very dismal and dark. Love can remove that darkness.
I have friends with different political and religious ideologies. We have been able to maintain our friendship by having an emapthic and open-minded and open-hearted stance. Differences do not create distances by empathy and compassion-the core components of love. It is not always easy to maintain equnimity and balance. If we do not... View full comment
It is my experience and understanding that unconditional love can solve world's mutiple problems on different dimensions of life: physical, mental, emotional, relational, natural and environmental. Love unites people regardless of external or outward differences. Love is sharing. Love is giving. Love is offering. Love is serving and nurturing. Love is connecting. In the world we live in there is a lot of divsivenes. We need to find a common ground based on emapathic underrstanding and compassion to respect people with different ideologies without fighting and hating.If we do not wake up the future looks very dismal and dark. Love can remove that darkness.
I have friends with different political and religious ideologies. We have been able to maintain our friendship by having an emapthic and open-minded and open-hearted stance. Differences do not create distances by empathy and compassion-the core components of love. It is not always easy to maintain equnimity and balance. If we do not maintain that stand life becomes a battlefield, causing a lot of interanl emotional damage. I have learned not to give up but to persist with compassion and humbleness.
What helps me stay rooted in love? As I have mentioned before, open- mindedness and open- heartedness, empathic understanding and compassion and humbleness help me stay rooted in love.
Namaste!
Jagdish P Dave
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People who ridicule the idea of love as a solution or a way of life usually have not been given love, and are my incentive and lesson to love more. The greater the ridicule and disbelief, the more I need to and want to love.
