In this Weekly Wisdom, Gurudev shares how true love is everywhere and how to stop the illusions of misery in your mind through meditation.
What type of love are you searching for? Nature loves you. That’s why your breath goes in, and out of you, even when you’re sleeping. You’re doing nothing, but your breath continues.
Air loves you, so it goes into you, comes out of you, and keeps you alive. The planet is keeping you alive. Isn’t it loving you?
Come on. Don’t say this is false love. This entire creation is filled with love because there is truth there.
Expectations and bartering love
You fall in love with somebody. You have expectations from them, and they don’t fulfill your expectations, so you drop out of love. This is not love.
You’re bartering love for your comfort. This is a love barter system. It’s not going to work.
Don’t doubt the love. You should doubt hatred, anger, and negativity.
Negativity is real? Suffering is real? But joy, happiness, love, is it all unreal?
It may appear like that when you’re too stressed.
Misery is not your nature
When you’re so entrenched in misery, then even talking about quietness and peace appears to be something impossible.
That’s why this wisdom is there, with this knowledge and these techniques, to help pull you out of that.
When Buddha, as a prince, witnessed the misery in life, he sought out knowledge. He came to realize that misery is not our nature. There's a way to come out of misery. He said, "It's possible to get out of misery," and that's what our techniques do.
Meditate to go beyond illusions
When you’re taught meditation, it’s for you to get out of sorrow and misery.
You find true love so real that you come to a place and say, “Misery is all my own illusion. My mind made me miserable. It’s the mental thing I was holding onto about others in my mind—the grudge, rage, anger, or jealousy. That’s how I became miserable.”
Seeing life from a broad perspective, from a wide-angle lens, you’ll find that life's not miserable. It’s love. It’s a joy.
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