Love, Hatred, & Their Effects in Your Life

Love, Hatred, & Their Effects in Your Life

We know what it feels like to live with anger, hatred, and alienation. We know, too, what it feels like to be filled with love, friendliness, and warmth, and the power those feelings have to connect us. I truly believe that it is our own life stories which serve us as our greatest teachers for they reveal to us what we need to nurture in our hearts and the ill will we must let go of.

To learn from our life lessons is not to ask how we can learn to be compassionate but to appreciate that we cannot afford to live without love. No matter how justified our anger and resentment seems to be, we must open our hearts to love. Mahatma Gandhi said, “An eye for an eye is a terrible way to blind the world.”

There is a Buddhist verse which says:

Hatred never ceases by hatred

But by love alone is healed.

This is an ancient and eternal law.

When Gandhi was asked if he had any message for the world, he said, “My life is my message.” What message does your life give?

What qualities of your being do you bring into the difficult situations in your life? Is it love or hatred? What are the effects? Without words, in what way do you touch your friends, family, and strangers? What is the spirit you touch them with and how will they remember you? How do you live and embody the wisdom of the Teaching; the love and ethics of the Teaching? Where do you not do so?

A prophet once came to a city to convert its inhabitants. At first the people listened to his sermons, but they gradually drifted away till there was not a single soul to hear the prophet when he spoke.
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One day a traveler said to him, “Why do you go on preaching?”

Said the prophet, “In the beginning I hoped to change these people. Now, if I still shout it is only to prevent them from changing me.

A young man was living in a monastery, and there was a very rich but stingy man who would come to the meetings. The young man’s Teacher told him one time to come to the meeting after 10:30. He did. When the rich man came there was no place to sit and no one was getting up to offer him a chair. Then the Teacher asked, “Do you like the situation?” “No, I do not like the situation because I had to stand through the whole lecture.” “Write a check then, so that we build a new Temple.”

Hatred is not a popular subject so it is rarely talked about. But if you really think about hatred and do a research on it, you will see that hatred is a source of every kind of disease – physical diseases, emotional diseases, mental diseases. It is important for us to teach our family and friends, our children, what hatred does to humanity and what it is doing now so that from the beginning our children can stop the source of their future sicknesses, pains, and sufferings.

I would so love to hear from you – about your own experiences of events, for example, how love healed a relationship you were in, whether it was a partner, a spouse, a family member, a child or a co-worker or friend. What did you do to mend the relationship? Was there a time you thought you “just couldn’t do it” yet you found the strength to forgive? Where did you find the resources of your strength? What were the effects?

Much love on this day of Pi 3.14.15

Joleen