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Emptiness & Love

Love breathing from inside us

Mar 4, 2017


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Emptiness

The mind that has not realized voidness,
May be halted, but will once again arise,
Just as from non-perceptual absorption.
Therefore one must train in emptiness.

*Shantideva (700's, Indian Buddhist monk & scholar). The Way of the Bodhisattva. Trans. Padmakara Translation Group.

"Emptiness,"
meaning nothing and no one
has self-existent existence, has independence,
each being made up of causes and conditions prior,
to become causes and conditions, already is, are.
Love is grounded in, arises from, emptiness ~ returns ~,
Love recognizes one cannot be separate,
that individuality is a lesser vision
than togetherness, than oneness.
Finally, thankfully, I can say,
"I do not love you,
but there is Love,
you are loved in me,
I in you."

Yes,
Love moves among us, between us,
like wind among limbs and leaves of a tree,
but from Where? and to Where?
from Whom? to Whom?
that no one can say,
or Love would not be Love.
"Emptiness," again, "Emptiness"
makes it all possible.
That is Enough - don't meddle, let be and become and return ...
receive, give, enjoy.

Feelings come
Feelings go
of Love or of Lovelessness;
Love remains
so, again, don't meddle, let be and become and return ...
receive, give, enjoy.

Returning to Emptiness
we return to Love
not my Love
not our Love
not your Love
Love
so, again, don't meddle, let be and become and return ...
receive, give, enjoy.

*Brian K. Wilcox. "Emptiness & Love." March.4.2017

What’s dying is the frightened mind, so the love inside us can get a chance to breathe.

*Marianne Williamson. A Return to Love.

Méditation ...

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©Brian Kenneth Wilcox 2017. Brian is a Hospice Chaplain, living out his vow to serve all living beings by serving those preparing to die and their friends and family. Brian lives a vowed life, alone in a quasi-hermitic life, and integrates varied religions, but most especially the contemplative paths of Buddhism and his native faith, Christianity. Brian received a 'mystical' Christ-experience at age 9, and was introduced to a peace untouched by pain and suffering. Later, in his mid-30s, after surviving a dark night of despair, Brian was vowed to a contemplative Christian way of life on St. Matthew's Feast day, 1995, by Greenbough House of Prayer, in Georgia, USA. This began many years of ardent reading, spiritual practice, and exploration of many spiritual paths, including publication of his book An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love. The Journey has led Brian to the joy beyond the ache, a contentment in experiential union with Grace. Brian lives with the affirmation that Love, not as emotion but Divine Presence, transcends all paths of religion and is our Source and Destination. As St. Paul writes in the Christian Bible, "Now remain always, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love." Peace to All!


 

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