05-08-2020, 09:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2020, 10:00 AM by Sunclarity.)
Service to self and service to others I think is a rather imprecise terminology. One that leads to confusion easily because it doesn't mean what the lexical items imply. Service to self is not being selfish and service to others is not being selfless. The first is meant as distorted love or love with a direction. The second is meant as pure love or love without a direction.
Think this way. If you allow yourself to be enslaved, and thus do service to others as per the lexical items, you won't do a service to yourself for you'll see you as inferior. If you do in the other direction, enslave, you'll see yourself as superior but for that to be, inferiority must follow. Is there love in either case? Yes, a form of it, but a very distorted kind.
It's complicated intellectually, but in practice, one feels like love and the other like something other than love. That's how you can tell the difference. So, feeling-wise, one is love, the other isn't. It's not much about objects as in to whom or what you direct the feeling, even if the idea of direction can be mentioned for understanding purposes.
Think this way. If you allow yourself to be enslaved, and thus do service to others as per the lexical items, you won't do a service to yourself for you'll see you as inferior. If you do in the other direction, enslave, you'll see yourself as superior but for that to be, inferiority must follow. Is there love in either case? Yes, a form of it, but a very distorted kind.
It's complicated intellectually, but in practice, one feels like love and the other like something other than love. That's how you can tell the difference. So, feeling-wise, one is love, the other isn't. It's not much about objects as in to whom or what you direct the feeling, even if the idea of direction can be mentioned for understanding purposes.