The Creation of Love
I think it can be agreed that a creation is the product of a
creator. It stands to reason that music was generated by the mind of a composer
and a sculpture was made by the hands of a sculptor. Much can be learned about the
nature of the human psyche from the seeming obviousness of these statements
because upon analysis these statements are in fact, completely false. The
inherent flaw these statements contain is the supposition that we created
ourselves and the world around us. This is the thinking of a person living
under the curse of insanity for we clearly did not create the air and
vibrational laws through which music moves nor did we create the tree from
which the sculpture is made. I don’t even want to bring who this creator was or
is, whether this creator is a who or what a he or a she or an it or a set of
laws – this argument does not require knowing what created all we see and know,
it simply requires acknowledgment that humans did not design the mountains nor
did we dream of the ocean and its waves and make them come to be. We had
nothing to do with this. In fact, as far as the rational sphere can tell – the
oceans were around far before humans even existed. Now that we have established
this, what then does it say about us that we make wild and insane and bold
statements like, “Isn’t he a wonderful composer?” It says we are living a lie
of the grandest proportions. It says we have the utter hubris to lay claim to
everything we see, this is our Kingdom and we rule and do with it as we see
fit. Look around you. How is the management of this Kingdom of yours going?
Your greatest assets are disappearing. What are the two things you must have?
One, if you go without it for minutes, you die and the other if you go without
it for days, you die. Air and water. How’s the air and water in your
neighborhood? What do you think about going down to the local river and taking
a drink? Would you be afraid to do such a thing? Where are the trees that
supply your oxygen? We are cutting them down at an alarming rate and poisoning
our waters, literally tainting our blood and asphyxiating ourselves. This is
what happens when we harbor the insane notion that this is our Kingdom and we
are the creators of our destiny. And what is to blame for this deadly and
erroneous judgment? The ego. It must protect itself. And the only way it can
protect itself is with lies because the ego itself is a lie. It whispers to you
that you are a creator, a painter of beautiful images but I ask, did you create
color and the materials you paint with? Did you construct the eyes that behold?
Everything belongs to the true creator of this universe. Humans are simply a
conduit for the miracle we participate in, nothing owned, everything given. You
say but the ego is necessary! I did not ask for my ego, I inherited it! And
this is true. The ego is necessary for survival…or it used to be. Feelings of
dominion, the reservoir of rage, anger, greed, selfishness and fear which is
the ego’s small domain, all contributed to help the genes survive, helped our
ancestors live. But something happened. Our animal cousins must have no small
measure of ego for we are not far from them and we did not arise from nothing.
Maybe the difference is not one of intelligence but of perception. Somewhere
along the way during our billions of years of journeying through time we boldly
leapt from the peace of living in harmony to the dis-ease of living with the
lie we are masters. Is this not the greatest evil, the very devil not just in
your midst but embedded in the very core of your perception? The one who tells
you you’re special, you’re different, you deserve more? And where has this
gotten us as a species? Lonely, depressed, fractured, insane and desperate
people who long for the peace of harmony but don’t even know how to ask for it.
There is one act of creation that has been given to us that
is truly our Kingdom. And how blessed we are that it is the highest act of
creation. This act of creation is love. It is our creative birthright, one we
are all born with and all with equal capacity and measure. If everything we
create is the result of and reliant upon the context into which we are born
then truly the feeling of love is ours and ours alone. This feeling generated
by the life which is yours can only come from within and is not dependent on
nor does it answer to others. This is our only one and true creation,
absolutely as unique as the individual. And what beauty! What grace it is to
give and receive! Love, simple and pure and utterly profound. When it is
unattached to the ego and selfless, as true love is - it serves to put the ego
in its rightful place, as a servant to the higher Self. The result of the
alchemization we undergo in the peace of love is communion. Understanding that
we are no different than our brothers and sisters, that we are each inherently
the same, children of the cosmos, which is what Father Sun in the sky reminds
us of, a perfect circle, without beginning or end, ceaselessly giving off light
and heat, always providing to everyone and everything without reservation or
judgment. We are also children of our Mother Earth, all of us participants in
the great web of life. The miraculous property of love is that it helps you
realize you are not alone, you are not separate from the water or the trees nor
indeed any living thing. When you see the world in this light, as it actually
is, then you live in harmony because you are no longer perceiving yourself as
outside this web, this magnificent system…we have a word for feeling outside
this web of life and this word is hell. When one loves and removes themselves
voluntarily from hell and it is voluntary and it can be done at any time for
hell is an illusion, this separateness, it does not exist, even in the warrens
of the most fetid city, we are still not separate, we are still tied to this
web. But look what happens to this web when too many of us are living in hell,
living out of the ego, sickness spreads to places we don’t even know about.
Trees are felled. Mountains literally razed and waters rendered undrinkable and
sterile with toxins. We need to claim our birthright and become the creators we
are and live in harmony and love and this will mean we treat our cousins and
brothers and sisters, the animal and plant life, with profound joy and respect
for we would cherish them as our teachers and our providers and we would care
for them as we care for ourselves, not look upon them as objects to be used as
we will. Then there will be harmony and the deep peace that comes with it. Our
waterways and air will be pure our forests will thrive because we will be
thriving, in love and gratitude and honor.
