Statement of Love

Below is my statement of love. I think it is the ultimate of love if you understand and have the same consensus as below:

“Very few people know what love is. 99% of people, unfortunately, think sexuality is love – it is not. Sexuality is very animal; it certainly has the potential; of growing into love, but it is not actual love, only a potential…”

“Buddha has defined compassion as ‘love plus meditation’. When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but an emperor, when your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give – to give for the sheer joy of giving – then add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released. That is compassion; compassion is the highest phenomenon.”

“These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest is sex – it is physical – and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle.”

“Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.”

I already understand the part of “sharing… is not that of a beggar but an emperor” and already put that into practice. Just that some lower beings do not understand so they would never understand.

I don’t really get how compassion is above love – I guess you need compassion in order to have love? But then that would make compassion in the middle, then love. But I believe that someday I will understand…

Then I don’t get how adding meditation would release the fragrance of compassion. =)

You have no idea how profound all this is….I was already acting upon it without realizing the deepness of all this. =)

Just a side note – my psychic got an emperor card for my love spread – it means that my husband would be like an emperor that takes care of everybody. And guess what! The Buddhist statement talks about an emperor that shares and gives! I really think my husband is going to be my soul mate. =) When I had found this little meaningful passage 6 months ago, I had no idea how some of the words here would give me some insight later. That’s why I have to say that I will understand more about this passage as I grow and grow more spiritually.

I feel so grateful to have found this little paragraph about love, and how I came across it again and this whole thing has given me warmth and hopes again. I feel a lot of love enveloping me right now, yes, just by reading it and taking in the deep sensations of love – the infinite love from the universe and everywhere…the never ending energy that surrounds every life. I feel blessed. Thank you.