Why is reality called love?

[Osaid]

3 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

So it feels like love to be in a state of not imagining division anymore? That non dual awareness if I can call it that

Yes exactly, love occurs when there isn't assumed division.

Practically, it means there aren't thoughts appearing anymore which seem to divide reality.

In order to love vanilla ice cream, you have to taste vanilla ice cream. Tasting doesn't happen in past or future (thoughts), it happens presently. It is the present experience.

In the emotions that humans create through an imagined separate self, you can essentially see it like they are chasing "future present moments" which allows them to stop thinking/dividing reality for a temporal moment. They want to create a future result which prevents them from imagining division, thus bringing them back to the present undivided experience, which feels like emotional relief (love).

If someone believes they are unworthy (separate), getting a good job will prevent that imagination/division/belief from occurring, thus creating a moment of unity/love/happiness/mental peace/etc. This is how the ego has been conducting itself across all of time, it is constantly changing its physical environment and position in order to stop imagining separation.

The error in this pursuit is that there is no separation. The ego does not exist because it is based on the idea of a future occurring, and thus the entire structure is unnecessary.

Edited June 18 by Osaid

[Salvijus]

Because love is the creative energy. 

And we are living in Creation

😐

Edited June 19 by Salvijus

[gettoefl]

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You cannot wake yourself. Yet you can LET yourself be wakened. You can overlook your brother’s dreams. So perfectly can you forgive him his illusions, he becomes your Savior from your dreams. And as you see him shining in the space of light where God abides within the darkness, you will see that God Himself is where his body is. Before this light the body disappears, as heavy shadows must give way to light. The darkness cannot choose that it remain. The coming of the light MEANS it is gone. In glory will you see your brother then, and understand what REALLY fills the gap so long perceived as keeping you apart.

There, in its place, God’s Witness has set forth the gentle way of kindness to God’s Son. Whom you forgive is given power to forgive you your illusions. By your gift of freedom is it given unto you. Make way for love, which you did not create, but which you CAN extend. On earth this means forgive your brother, that the darkness may be lifted from your mind. When light has come to him through your forgiveness, he will not forget his Savior, leaving him unsaved. For it was in YOUR face he saw the light that he would keep beside him, as he walks through darkness to the everlasting light.

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Forgive us our illusions, Father, and help us to accept our true relationship with You, in which there are no illusions, and where none can ever enter.  Our holiness is Yours.  What can there be in us that needs forgiveness when Yours is perfect?  The sleep of forgetfulness is only the unwillingness to remember Your forgiveness and Your Love.  Let us not wander into temptation (think you are a body), for the temptation of the Son of God is not Your Will.  And let us receive only what You have given, and accept but this into the minds which You created and which You love.  Amen.

 

[Carl-Richard]

17 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

Maybe it’s because the mind is quiet when we love something aka are happy  thus feel present so its that absence of thoughts that makes it seem more real and intense. I’m not sure tho. So the mind being the barrier /veil on reality and absence of it would reveal reality for us and it would be like the highest love so it’s like reality is that love is how you mean kinda?

That's another way to look at it. When you engage actively with literally anything at all, you activate the task-positive network in your brain (and deactivate the Default Mode Network), and you stop thinking about yourself if only for a moment. When you engage with something deeply and intensely, like when you love something or you're deeply passionate for it, you stop thinking about yourself even more. And at the highest levels, you might completely lose yourself, and then there is only reality.

Edited June 19 by Carl-Richard

[Sugarcoat]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

That's another way to look at it. When you engage actively with literally anything at all, you activate the task-positive network in your brain (and deactivate the Default Mode Network), and you stop thinking about yourself if only for a moment. When you engage with something deeply and intensely, like when you love something or you're deeply passionate for it, you stop thinking about yourself even more. And at the highest levels, you might completely lose yourself, and then there is only reality.

I see

[Sugarcoat]

5 hours ago, Salvijus said:

Because love is the creative energy. 

And we are living in Creation

😐

The emoji lol

[Sugarcoat]

19 hours ago, Osaid said:

Yes exactly, love occurs when there isn't assumed division.

Practically, it means there aren't thoughts appearing anymore which seem to divide reality.

In order to love vanilla ice cream, you have to taste vanilla ice cream. Tasting doesn't happen in past or future (thoughts), it happens presently. It is the present experience.

In the emotions that humans create through an imagined separate self, you can essentially see it like they are chasing "future present moments" which allows them to stop thinking/dividing reality for a temporal moment. They want to create a future result which prevents them from imagining division, thus bringing them back to the present undivided experience, which feels like emotional relief (love).

If someone believes they are unworthy (separate), getting a good job will prevent that imagination/division/belief from occurring, thus creating a moment of unity/love/happiness/mental peace/etc. This is how the ego has been conducting itself across all of time, it is constantly changing its physical environment and position in order to stop imagining separation.

The error in this pursuit is that there is no separation. The ego does not exist because it is based on the idea of a future occurring, and thus the entire structure is unnecessary.

Ok I see

 

so you don’t have thoughts anymore or? Because all thoughts divide reality right ?

[An young being]

On 18/06/2024 at 0:49 AM, Sugarcoat said:

i don’t really know but my intuition says reality fundamentally has no purpose behind it

It does have a great purpose, to experience life. 

Reality is called love, because it feels similar to the feeling of love in a romantic or platonic relationship. Just like such love varies in magnitude depending upon how much you love the other person, the love you feel from reality also varies depending on how open you are to it.

[Sugarcoat]

22 minutes ago, An young being said:

It does have a great purpose, to experience life. 

Reality is called love, because it feels similar to the feeling of love in a romantic or platonic relationship. Just like such love varies in magnitude depending upon how much you love the other person, the love you feel from reality also varies depending on how open you are to it.

Complete openness would be enlightenment ? So no sense of separation 

[Osaid]

5 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

so you don’t have thoughts anymore or? Because all thoughts divide reality right ?

If anything like "thoughts" occur, there's no difference between "me" and "thoughts." All of reality is the same occurrence, in that sense.

Thoughts don't divide anything, that is the belief/assumption which is never seen or experienced by anyone.

Thoughts can be about separate things like "me having thoughts", but all the words in that thought point to the same singular thought/experience. 

Beliefs/assumptions are like believing there is a bear in your closet, and then feeling fear because of it. They are concepts never experienced, but felt emotionally nonetheless.

Enlightenment is like opening the closet and seeing that nothing was there the entire time, and then never thinking about closet bears again.

[Sugarcoat]

6 minutes ago, Osaid said:

If anything like "thoughts" occur, there's no difference between "me" and "thoughts." All of reality is the same occurrence, in that sense.

Thoughts don't divide anything, that is the belief/assumption which is never seen or experienced by anyone.

Thoughts can be about separate things like "me having thoughts", but all the words in that thought point to the same singular thought/experience. 

Beliefs/assumptions are like believing there is a bear in your closet, and then feeling fear because of it. They are concepts never experienced, but felt emotionally nonetheless.

Enlightenment is like opening the closet and seeing that nothing was there the entire time, and then never thinking about closet bears again.

Interesting 

[An young being]

20 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

That's another way to look at it. When you engage actively with literally anything at all, you activate the task-positive network in your brain (and deactivate the Default Mode Network), and you stop thinking about yourself if only for a moment. When you engage with something deeply and intensely, like when you love something or you're deeply passionate for it, you stop thinking about yourself even more. And at the highest levels, you might completely lose yourself, and then there is only reality.

Exactly! 

Especially when you are engaging in something that you are passionate about and benefits others at the same time.

14 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

Complete openness would be enlightenment ? So no sense of separation 

Yes, maintaining almost complete openness all the time will be enlightenment.