Learning Ways of Love

[Plenum]

Opening the heart center is my personal, most important lesson. Well, yeah, there are of course three lower energy centers which give hard time, but right now I want to discuss the green ray energy center, which has been bugging me a lot.

if i may offer some thoughts, you may or may not find them useful or relevant

my personal understanding is that love and fear are antithetical; where fear is present, love is usually absent.

the emanations of fear usually bring with them:

* a feeling of separation from the thing 'feared'
* a wanting to get away from the thing feared
* a feeling of 'defence' or protection against the thing feared

if you can find the personal roots for the fear, and then balance that or just even understand it, this can allow the presence of love to enter and dissolve the 'distance' between you and the thing previously feared. Fear can be for a person, an experience, or just a vague concept. It can be entirely imaginary (and usually only is entirely imaginary).

the state of universal compassion, or love for all things (metta) implies that one does not feel separate from anything that one sees or experiences ... that one identifies with the universe around oneself. All resistance has been removed.