[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Developing Universal Love

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

June 7, 2008

DEVELOPING UNIVERSAL LOVE

There have been so many speeches about love and peace and tranquility 
in the world. But how do we really bring love into being?...Many 
people get very romantic about love, in fact get high on it at the 
very mention of the word. But then there will be a gap, a period when 
we are not high on love. Something else takes place which is 
embarrassing, a private matter. We tend to seal it off. It is 
"private parts," shameful, not part of our divinity. Let's not think 
about that. Let's simply ignite another love explosion, and on and on 
we go, trying to ignore those parts of our being we reject, trying to 
be virtuous, loving, kind. Perhaps this will put off a lot of people, 
but I am afraid love is not really the experience of beauty and 
romantic joy alone. Love is associated with ugliness and pain and 
aggression, as well as with the beauty of the world. It is not the 
re-creation of heaven. Love or compassion, the open path, is 
associated with "what is." In order to develop love -- universal 
love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it -- one must 
accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the 
dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.

 From "The Open Way," in CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM, pages 
100 to 101.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used 
by permission.

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