SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What does extinguishing the thinking mind in love mean to you? Can you share a personal experience of a time when you were in the state of being love? How can we develop ourselves to be love?
Living within God's presence, we come to "this place" Ram speaks of. One in Spirit . . . Heaven and earth's truest/ultimate love form and connection!
Thank you, Ram Dass for your words.
A true blessing this day!
Love
This message could not have come at a better time. Since I woke up my mind has been busy with chatter that is not constructive for me or anyone else. I would really love to learn how to extinguish my thinking mind. For me I can relate with the state of love and not thinking, just being and accepting. when it happens it is often triggered by some positive experience, like right now I can sense the change in the feeling from anger and irritation and a lot of conversations to calm and appreciation. Thank you for this gift and the awareness it has brought to me.
This passage starts with the word 'imagine' which makes me wonder whether that state of being cannot be somewhat self-induced? The author's approach is not unlike that of sophrology: taking hold of one's imagination to create a serene climate within. Using the thinking mind to induce a certain state of being. And this is best done when relaxing and sitting quietly. I am not saying that this is wrong but I wonder if a more direct way is not to deliberately let go of the thinking mind as one comment suggested. This means accepting being vulnerable in relationship, a very difficult thing to do if one tends to be headstrong. I think this willingness is an expression of love. It creates space for all to flower.
I am clearer after reading this passage from Ram Dass as to the reality that lies beyond the words:'unconditional love'. Such sets of words may sometimes end up sounding like mere incantations, something detached from daily living or somewhat reserved to a few very saintly people. This reading reminds me that such love is not an abstraction and that I have already met its living expression although I may not have recognized it a such.
This passage is very dense with meaning, very accurate in its wording and I feel I may need to spend further time on it before I can fully digest it.
To me extinguishing the thinking mind equals Listening to your heart. Deeply listening. Letting go of the chatter, the noise in one's head that sometimes blocks the LOVE in the Heart. I have felt this love more than I can express. It washes over and it is like a state of bliss. It permeates EVERY part of you. It extends outward and inward at the same time. I believe we can develop this more by going into our hearts more and not being in our heads. Our heart feels this naturally, but sometimes our heads talk us out of it. Wishing all of you to feel this kind of LOVE, it is Beautiful. and Possible. HUG from my heart to yours.