A hilarious one.

At least the personal kind.

Markos the G made a great post about the different kinds of love recently.

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Chronic777 said:

What do you make of love?

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Music.

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Middleman said:
Markos the G made a great post about the different kinds of love recently.

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Middleman said:

The word love has roots in the word for Jupiter - Jove.

The same is true for the words juvenile and joke. Seriously.

Strange how people use the word love to describe the attachment to the emotional high of infatuation.

Love is actually the opposite of attachment, it is surrender.

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This is how i realised the same thing, i surrendered myself to union with the one, and it revealed itself as pure love enlessly flowing. You have to let go, flow with the harmony, surrender, unattach...you cant feel it as anything but love, bliss etc...its the only way i can describe it.

I think the confusion of love with attachment is the paradox of love in life, love itself is seemingly attached to being, yet love is being, yet love is being one, this is why i say the cycle, its seemingly dual, as being is seemingly dual, its a reflection of the same thing, we are all the same thing reflected, when you look into anothers eyes, you are staring into your own...

The fact love was taken from jupiter is great, jupiter is what protects us from being pulverised by comets, its gravitational pull nurtures planet earths growth.

This too is out of love.



I dont mean to come off pretentious or anything, i feel paranoid that i might come off trying to be holy or something, the universe teaches me love is for spreading

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Love
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English lufu; akin to Old High German luba love, Old English lēof dear, Latin lubēre, libēre to please.

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Jove
Middle English, from Archaic Latin Iovis, or from Latin Iov- stem of Iuppiter.

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These words do not share a common etymology.

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Middleman said:
Love is actually the opposite of attachment, it is surrender.

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to love. I see love and attachment as inseparable. If you love something you become grossly aware of it so it becomes the focus of your experience. Now you're "in the zone" and you are getting joy out of something because you are engrossed in it. For example, having a conversation with a loved one over a cup of tea is only an experience filled with love if you are really there with all your being, really drinking the tea and really having a conversation, and investing yourself in that moment.

I'm just saying this from my point of view of right now, I could change my mind next week. However it does seem to me that I've suffered the most when I was Detached from everything, because then I did not care about what happened to me or the people around me. This came from trying to hold on to this image of Love I had in my mind and when it started slipping I tried "surrendering" but it became a kind of nihilistic trap of everything being "nothing", not in a creative sense but destructive. Detachment is the mind obscuring love and basically seeing the world as "everything is out there happening to me, and I (will) play no part in this creative process" - creativity being the source of culture and language and learning.

I think this is because I believed that if Everything was Love, and I wasn't feeling "Love" in a particular moment, than I had to be Nothing, the opposite of love. This idea of Nothing was also just an image - I can't point out somewhere in the world and say "This is Nothing". Nor can I say "This is Everything" - these are containers the mind creates when reality may not be contained in anything at all. Without an ego which is attached to Being and the experience of an individual involved in the world, there is not love but despair because there is no identity, nothing to put everything together. So we have to understand ourselves (Realize ourselves through the imaginative/dreaming process) to love ourselves.

So, everything is indeed love, if we attach ourselves to something in our imagination, or a dream, and "ground" ourselves in that. It could be mostly cultural, a shared hallucination. The fact that it exists at all is very special. I guess the trick is knowing that our grounding is really all groundless but we can move on to another dream or keep building upon one we already started.

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When you feel your life aint worth living
Youve got to stand up and
Take a look around you then a look way up to the sky.
And when your deepest thoughts are broken,
Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin its time to die.

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Icelander said:
I agree love is in a way opposite to attachment, but they are also very very hard to distinguish between,

For you maybe but I see no similarities between unconditional acceptance and addiction.

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