Be Love Now

 A few months ago I experienced the deepest feeling of love I can remember ever feeling during an early morning dream. It was blissful, and fortunately lingered for several hours after I awoke. Was it Unconditional Love, or the Love that we experience in the Spirit plane? I can not say, but it felt as good as any Love I could hope for. 

I have just heard the best description of this Pure Love of the Spirit world in an audio book by Anita Moorjani, "Dying to be Me." It descbes her near-death experience and her miraculous return to health. From what I have understood from her experience is that we, and Everything else, are all One- Love in the plane (or plain) that is not the physical one, but we incarnate to experience that which can not be experienced "out of body."  So while on this Earth we feel the gamut of emotions, from fear and hate to love and bliss, which is the purpose for our incarnation, yet, as we can not remember who we "really" are, we are often searching for the way to get back to Unconditional Love.

 What a beautiful reminder of what we are, at the core. This whole passage seems itself to be a practice, a meditation, a way. When we all can remember this, wars will end, crimes will cease, and even laws and lawyers will no longer be needed. Isn't all that we desire, and try to get from others—is it not all ultimately about this deep longing for what we already are being given—and always have been?

What is it in me, in all of us, that forgets this? Why, when something within us is so all-pervasive and powerful and true, do I live with little or no awareness of this beauty? Is there also some part of our fundamental nature that forgets the gift that is always given? And, if that forgetfulness is also divine, is that also sacred, and worth revering? So that the dramas of forgetfulness—the torn relationships and the wars, small and enormous—play themselves out?

Thank you for posting this today. Thank you, Ram Dass, for this reminder so beautiful it should be sung.

 Truly excellent writing. I often feel like I am in my head but I know it is more than that.  His description of that unity of mind, heart and everything and everyone fits where I am moving toward..  I don't experience that often but as I do a kind act, that  is something like I experience heaven at that present moment.  We can't choose our parents, and I believe the love I received from my mother in particular was so fantastic that I am unconsciously imbued with it at this moment..  Extinguishing the thinking to me means that the thought of love is different from love and some thinking can interfere with loving  Being kind to oneself and others is love.  Being peaceful in the present moment is love. When  I can feel, think, etc .in an openly aware integrated manner, I am more at one with everyone and everything.  The way to develop ourselves to be love is to notice what is happening in the present moment/ being presently aware.    As I expand my awareness I move to noticing incomprehensible mystery and not knowing; just being, and that, at times, is just being love.  Thank you for the opportunity to respond.  Warm and kind regards to everyone.

Ram Dass… Yep – The imperfections are the perfections of the extension to the man: Love, I agree with you Ram Dass – Be Love Now… Yes..  I think Love is learning and once you lovel-earn, no matter what, you cannot un-love, because even the ‘dislike’ after love, is the love that you remember, so extinguishing the mind may only be a phrase, but the mind lives in memory, hmm it’s all remnants from love – love, or whatever fuels the thought to think and remember.. All I know is I try to smile, be true and be love, I don’t always hit the mark, but as I age, I am more real love, to develop love, true love I think is to just grow and allow everything to come ones life, without experience there is no comparison in anything in life, so experience and live, cry, feel laugh express and try to extinguish love, for love will come in and warm the heart in everything that was lived anyway, even the bad. Love that’s the path I like being on  - Jai Jai Love  :-)  <3   Thank You… 

To me, " extinguishing the thinking mind in love" means to lay thinking to rest, give it a break, have it not be primary, not be in charge, be in the background, and even be forgotten, and simply be and be one with all that is.  There are brief  times when I have such a sense, and it feels peaceful, special, and even intimate.  I believe our oneness is love and during times when I have a sense of oneness I believe and sense that I am in this love -- but I don't feel loved.  I believe what Ram Dass says, that unconditional love exists in each of us, in our deep inner being, our undergirding, and connects us.  I believe, as I think Thich Nhat Hanh says, that we are interconnected and interdependent, interbeing in interisness.  And I believe and sense that being in that awareness and state of oneness is being in the state of love -- but I don't experience it as my being loved -- perhaps I simply haven't gotten there yet.  I believe that I and we can develop ourselves to be love by growing in and abiding in the awareness that we truly are inseparably one. .