Desire Sublimated (poetic satire)

If we were truly satiated by desire,
then no one would make love anymore.
Thus it is because we are rarely satisfied
that desire motivates us.
For libido is a cunning beast.
She who understands the optimal way
to satisfy her desires knows how to
openly sublimate those desires and
is successful in the pursuit of true love.

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Originally posted: June 16, 2010

Truth helps me (poem)

When the facts be known,
all romantic and silly notions
fall away, to be forgotten
as the truth helps me see
the situation oh-so-clearly.

Yet I do not mourn the loss
of passion, for my heart has
risen above it all, only to
come to know true love
in its many-splendored guise.

Indeed, passion lost implies
freedom's reign over desire.
Through mindful control of passion,
the ego's hold on the mind
is released forevermore.

By letting go of clinging,
I let unconditional love
inspire me to see the truth
of egolessness in life.
For that I am so grateful.

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Originally posted March 15, 2005 at 9:48 PM

True Love (satire)

in each person's heart, true love exists. Yet such love is not based on the myth that someone out there is The One.

Hidden by the idealism of romantic love is the heartache of ego-delusion, which often requires ignorance to sustain its agenda.

Often layers of trust need to be established for things to work out. Thus the romantic who trusts first is often betrayed.

True love must be cultivated by cutting through the myths of romantic love and replacing them with truth, even when such truths may cause romance to flee.

Let it flee, for in the place of romance, truth is the beginning of trust. This is why it is called true love.

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Originally posted: June 2, 2013 08:10 AM

The Golden Ring of True Love (poem)

True love is compassion;
compassion is loving-kindness;
loving-kindness is love that is true;
and love that is true is true love...

Human love pales before such reason!
For such reason solves the question: What is true love?
It also explains why we humans rarely find the love that is true.
Few of us even understand that loving-kindness is the highest love.
Indeed, everywhere we seek true love, only to overlook compassion.

For compassion is true love;
true love is love that is true;
love that is true is loving-kindness;
and loving-kindness is compassion.
Indeed, compassion is true love!

For true love is the balm that heals a broken heart;
once healed, that heart is able to share the love that is true,
because loving-kindness is true love shared.
Even your mother knows this love that is true.
Her compassion brought you to her breast,
so that you could suckle the milk of human kindness,

For loving-kindness is love that is true;
love that is true is true love;
true love is compassion;
and compassion is loving-kindness.

Such kindness is this love that is true which soothes
the brow of the beast within that dies in our arms
so that the life of compassion reveals the heart of our humanity
which yearns longingly for what the romantics call true love!

For true love is love that is true;
love that is true is loving-kindness;
loving-kindness is compassion;
and compassion is true love!

Be True to Yourself (poem)

Touch not my heart
with love insincere,
lest we both forget
all sense of self.

Be true to yourself.
For each of us is
inspired by true love
to act with the heart
of compassion.

To the Beloved (poem)

Love touches my life,
leaving behind tender moments
as bright in my heart
as the stars are in the sky.
Yet who deserves that love,
whose words comfort me?
It is you.

For you are the heart of my life -
your love touches me
to the depths of my heart
so much that we have
become dependent on each other.

I love you; and you, me.
Together our love conquers
all, leaving nothing to chance,
and without any conditions.
Indeed, love is a gift we share
with our friends and family.

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The pronouns "I" and "you" are conventions of modern English.

Within context of unconditional love, please refer to the Buddhist concept of
no-self: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta

I've Been Gone for a Spell

20101229: It predates all my relationships.

The moment I am gone in any relationship is when the anxiety and fear deludes me into thinking that soon this too will pass.

Then I'll choose computers or my family over turning a relationship into a marriage.

Could I be externalizing my abandonment fears by abandoning those people I love?

If so, does that mean it's hopeless? I don't know; there is little need to invest a lot of emotion regarding this quality of my love life.

For uncertainty is the most important source of my anxiety today.

Nobody knows how the drama can be avoided; I don't care if there isn't any.

For love transcends our fears of abandonment. For a brief moment in time, we are loved.

Yet no one knows what tomorrow morning will bring.

I Know of Love I Know

"onaji monno onaji kanjikata shiteru no aishiteru aishiteru aishiteru"
my own thing, my writings ... I know of love I know, love I know, love I know
-- 1/2 - Kawamoto Makoto, from Rurouni Kenshin: Best Theme Collection

That which is knowable is dear to each of us, for I know only a tiny part of the known world.

Everything that is unknown is not knowable due to the limitations of the human condition.

Thus I am not God, who alone knows everything.

Even the experiences of children are more than anyone older than 30 will ever know.

Therefore, the known world is limited by human limitations, and will always be a tiny part of the whole world.

Indeed, the total human knowledge today is quantifiable. If it were 1 percent of the world, then 99 percent of the world is indeed a mystery, and nearly unknown to me overall.

For there is far more that each of us does not know, and what I do know is insignificant in the face of the unknown.

What does this have to do with what I know of love that I know?

Only that my love is limited to what I know, for I cannot love what and who I do not know.

This also applies to the unknown and the mysteries of the human world.

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Reference:

Kawamoto Makoto, 1/2 - Rurouni Kenshin: Best Theme Collection
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/k/kawamoto-makoto/one-half-12-rurouni/

The line beginning with "Even the experiences of children" refers to the following stanzas from What a Wonderful World:

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know

What a Wonderful Word is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss.

Science Links Religion and Romance

Religious ecstasy and romantic love both derive their hold on the psyche from oxytocin, the neurohormone that is known as the love hormone.

"Religious ecstasy" refers to that feeling of being reborn refered to as "born again". Likewise, true love is the psychic state when the lover feels whole.

Whether born again or made whole, the person experiences a spiritual awakening.

This spiritual awakening feels like being born again to the religious, and becoming whole to the lover.

This Love Knows No Bounds (a Poem)

Where mere mortals fear to tread,
this sacred Love True
stands high above human lust,
for but a heartbeat,
this Love knows no common bounds.

At birth we suffer;
in life we suffer also;
yet when your time draws
to a close so suddenly,
forget regret and expire.

Nothing lasts, I know this Truth;
Birth is followed by
Life, and Life by Death again!
Yet life is both joy
and pain, no profit, no gain!

What is this True Love
but the heart-mind unfolded,
at peace with the world
and with the Buddha, Dharma,
and the Sangha? It is Love.

When my body becomes dust,
and my mind a memory lost,
where is the soul? What of karma?
In death my past actions move on.
For what is karma but this Love
so precious that knows no bounds?

Namu Amida Butsu!

The Egolessness of True Love

>
In the early morning,
A lover asked her beloved,
"Do you love me more than yourself?"
"More than myself?
For sure I have no self anymore
--I am you already.
The 'I' has gone, the 'you' has come about.
Even my identity is gone.
The answer is taken for granted.
'You and I' has no meaning.
The 'I' has vanished
like a drop in an ocean of honey."

-- from the Masnavi collection of Rumi

True Love is Unconditional Love (poem)

True love transcends all bounds
when both parties make the effort
to move beyond desire
and all that is human.
To merely indulge
in human love is to restrict
oneself to suffering.
In transcending desire,
unconditional love becomes
the source to help
cross over to the divine.

Compassion: Letting the Head Rule Over the Heart

Once touched by compassion, a person has difficulty reverting to his previous life when passion ruled.

He knows that reason tempers emotions.

Thus, this is the essence of the concept of "mind over matter."

In matters of love, it is prudent to let the head rule the heart.

Otherwise, we end up falling in love, not with the object of our desire, but with a false love, the pale reflection of unconditional love itself.

In doing so, we see life as though "through a mirror darkly."

By letting reason rule over passion, a person who truly knows compassion, having risen above his passions, is truly able to love all people equally, unconditionally. This called equanimity

Let this be the measure of the depth of your compassion, to allow the embrace of unconditional love to touch your heart.

All it takes is love...

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Originally posted: May 18, 2005 1715H
Updated: February 8, 2013 2051H