Short Story: Oneness, and love

The fledgling monk could not understand his own part within oneness
@innertalks (20980)
Australia
November 8, 2021 8:28pm CST
The great Taoist master, Zhang Daoshsloi, was giving a lecture to some of his students on oneness, and its relationship to love. Here is what he said: "Love is the only energy, and when any other separate entity to oneness exists, its energy exists as a lesser form of love." "This is why every part of oneness feels lower emotive states, such as fear, until the attractive force of love brings them back again into the complete immersion of themselves into the energy of this love within oneness." "Oneness attracts lesser forms of love back to itself in order for it to "repair" its fullness again." "This means that ultimately like does not attract like, with oneness. Love, another name for oneness, attracts everything back again into itself." "Like attracts like, only within duality." "And, as I just said, within oneness, love attracts all else back to itself. So, all states, both negative, and positive are always being attracted back to love, in order for them to be restored to a middle neutralised balanced position within themselves, within love, within oneness." "Now, I will mention emptiness." "Emptiness is another name for oneness too." "Oneness has been emptied then of everything except of love, for emptiness to then exist truly, both to oneness, and to all of its infinite parts, as well." "The emptiness of being fulfilled is the greatness of love emptying you, to fill itself with you, or emptying you to fill yourself with it. Love will either fill you, or draw you into itself then, is my meaning here." "Love goes both ways, and is always complete, and so anything that you feel different from love, just empty it out back into love, where it will be rekindled into love reintegrated, and so love will flow back into you, and fill these gaps of non-love again." "Nonlove only exists within your mind, though. So, dropping your mind into emptiness, immediately refills you with love then too." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The fledgling monk could not understand his own part within oneness, until his old master said to him. "If you dried up, and died, oneness would lose none of its juices. So, flow with oneness, do not dry yourself up, by your thinking that you are separate from it."
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@iKONICNoona (3993)
• Philippines
9 Nov 21
Taoism is very deep and sometimes hard to understand. But I love reading their statements.
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@innertalks (20980)
• Australia
9 Nov 21
Yes, I love reading their statements too. They rub one side against another, and inflame the deepness out of us too, by our just reading it.
• Philippines
9 Nov 21
@innertalks Their teachings are helpful too .One must think very hard to understand them.
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@innertalks (20980)
• Australia
9 Nov 21
@iKONICNoona Either think very hard, or not think at all, and just feel the truth behind the words.
@manikarnika (3222)
• India
9 Nov 21
Yeah...Love is God Also nice to read your discussion and looks like article
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@innertalks (20980)
• Australia
9 Nov 21
Thanks. Yes, love is God, and God is love. We can't be God, but we can endeavour to live from as much love, as we can.
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@Shiva49 (26190)
• Singapore
9 Nov 21
Oneness is also highlighted in Hinduism - non-duality. "According to EspĂ­n and Nickoloff, referring to monism, "nondualism" is the thought in some Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist schools, which, generally speaking, "teaches that the multiplicity of the universe is reducible to one essential reality." Love is the purest form of energy behind the creation and represents our creator in all his resplendence. When we realize the inimitable role it plays in our existence, we would raise our consciousness manifold.
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@innertalks (20980)
• Australia
9 Nov 21
Thanks, siva. You always add interest to my posts. Yes, God, being God, would always use the purest form of energy, for/behind all that he does. We should try to put love behind all that we do too. I notice James Nickoloff advocates for a sort of spiritual liberation, where human consciousness is raised, and transformed, by a transformation in Christ, which moves us from self-focus, to God focus.
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/grace-margins/liberation-theology-interview-james-nickoloff
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@Shiva49 (26190)
• Singapore
10 Nov 21
@innertalks Thanks Steve, though we form a minuscule part in the whole process of creation, we still have a role to play. Let us not stand apart like a sore thumb but get immersed to do our part and seize the chances than look the other way. Love helps us to become an integral part all the time.
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@innertalks (20980)
• Australia
10 Nov 21
@Shiva49 The sore thumb might get extra attention to it, sometimes, though, as it depends on whose sore thumb it is. If it is God's thumb that we are affecting, he might get sick of his always having a sore thumb, and wash away all the soreness, with a bath of vinegar, which might not be to our taste too. We should rather massage God's thumb with love too, as love always smooths over all hurts.
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