LOVE IN ACTION
What we do, we do to feel love. Love is the combination of the Polar forces. When we feel a desire for action, we are spurned to do a thing. Therein lies the combination of forces. Desire arises out of a perceived need to do or experience something. We receive that idea. If we accept it, then the very action of reception requires us to take action and project work out of ourselves to satisfy or otherwise satiate the desire in question. That action (whether born of either a selfish or selfless desire) is Love.
When we can learn to control that receptive side of us, then no desire can ever get a hold of us because we are using free will to control what our receptive side, that part of us which would otherwise cause us to take action in response to every single thing that attracts or otherwise assaults our consciousness on a daily basis. Then we have learned that true art of self control.
Yogis, shamans, magicians, adepts, etc., are masters at this kind of control. When they decide to take action about something, rest assured that they have a reason for it that goes far beyond that of most people. Some might look upon them and call them misers, accusing them of never doing much of anything that normal people do. And that is not such a far off definition. If one remembers that spiritualists have forsaken the trappings of the ‘normal’ lives of the masses, then it makes perfect sense that such spiritual people would not engage in any activity that is otherwise wasteful to their perceptions. And the daily activities of the masses are considered wasteful in their eyes, hence their disengagement (to varying degrees) from normal society.
And the work of a spiritual person is always one of Love. Again, what we do, we do out of love, to feel love. The difference here is the yogi, shaman, etc., feels love when they serve people. They rarely engage in activities for selfish reasons, and even if they do something that brings them some material gain, you can rest assured that it is for a greater purpose than that which is usually conceived of the populace.
If any would wish to be like the masters, then let your work (whatever that may be) be driven by a love that encompasses others. Let the ideas that spurn you into action be fueled by a desire to experience love for others. Let your life which is love in action be a series of experiences, or moments that are geared towards the eventual goal of helping others.
That kind of love in action makes a life worth living. That kind of work makes life bearable.
