“Love teaches that we are everything,” Jack Kornfield writes. Though, when we first attempt to understand this teaching – we are often left confused. It seems so simple, however – the implications are inevitablyfar reaching. If love is everything and we are love, then – how can these barriers of separation manifest?

In Buddhism, we are taught to examine the consequences of self. Meaning, to examine the means by which ego arises – what are its triggers, how may it manifest? And, perhaps more importantly – what happens when we relinquish our hold? In letting go, we are offered a new and exciting freedom – though, not without its ‘cost’.

That ‘cost’ being a fear of loss. If we lose our identify, then – what’s left? Will we feel as strong, as encouraged? Or, will we suffer the pains of a desperate unknown?

Love teaches that we are everything… from soil to root to branch to leaf, everything exists as a condition to all else. The body, the senses…our feelings and perceptions, are merely contextual. Through which, we are offered the ability to connect – to all people, to all things. To see this world through an unbiased aperture.

Imagine yourself standing alone in a darkened alley. Someone approaches, instantly striking fear. Your body tenses, as you imagine the worst possible scenario – until he moves closer, and you identify him as ‘friend’. Do you feel the shift from separate to connected? Though a rather drastic explanation, it’s lesson is still relevant -showing how easily we may adjust the focal point of our consciousness from absolute fear to understanding and love.

“We discover,” he writes, “that our identity is more tentative, fluid like a river, each moment born anew.”

In peace, my sweet friends – wishing you the very best blessings of day…

Namaste ❣️