Meditation on Love

Due to the sociocultural landscape of america, I have for awhile been developing a lot of bitterness and distaste for humanity. This is not very productive, since I chose to take on human form because I love the creatures in this world and I adore humanity.

I must remind myself, constantly, that no matter how void or vapid or sheeplike any individual is, they all have seeds within that can awaken, they all have the potential to be my very best friend, every single person has the latent ability to become a Boddhisattva.

I must remind myself, whenever I see a person, even if I’m not interacting with them, to smile and love them, because every energy-level influence I have on their being can either help their inner ’seeds’ to germinate, or contribute to their languishing in the darkness (if I’m not part of the solution, I’m part of the problem).

I must treat everyone with care and respect, even if I don’t respect them individually, because I care for and respect humanity as a whole.

I must remind myself that humanity is a LOVER that I have chosen in this lifetime, and one’s lovers tend to show you all their rawness and ugliness and faults and failings, but that is never an excuse to abandon a relationship.

I LOVE everyone, regardless of how I judge them as individuals or mammals or whatever criteria I happen to use. That LOVE must be in the forefront, not the evaluation and analysis. I don’t need to concern myself with the attributes of individuals when deciding how to treat them, I just need to smile at them and be available for them and offer them positive energy without any consideration of reciprocation or any hopes of helping them to wake up. ANYONE can wake up, I don’t have a basis from which to determine that anyone is ‘unworthy’ or ‘hopeless’, people make those decisions themselves and even then they still have the seeds within to transform.

I LOVE everyone UNCONDITIONALLY. I need to remind myself constantly to abandon  conditional  thought-patterns and behaviour-patterns.