The following I believe to be a teaching from my inner guru:
You may ask yourself, what are the limits of unconditional love? This is an understandable question that the thinking mind may ask. Let’s think about this differently, imagine yourself and your thoughts, this is the basis for your world view. There are others in your world and they have thoughts too. These thoughts may be fantasies, fictional worlds, observations of manifest reality which prove to be real when repeatedly observed from inside of the world. Some thoughts you share with others, and these shared observations form a shared identity. Imagine now that this is a system in which a measure of love exists. All of the theories of science, politics, and religion exist inside of this world. All of the fantasies and fictions and all of what appears to be real to everyone exists inside of this world.
What the world does not appear to have is an initial cause. To be certain there are theories, but as each theory comes into being, it poses more questions than it answers. This creates a world of unending questions and unending quests for more and more truth seemingly without end. This expands the world within the concept of measurement, but does nothing to resolve the cause of its existence. What a beautiful exhibition of complexity of thought. A world that becomes larger and more complex with each additional quest to understand its origin. This multiplies the complexity of the search without ever providing an answer. In the heart of this world lies the mind that thinks and searches endlessly creating more and more puzzles with each new discovery. This mind’s very nature is one of separation and measure, for greater love can only be known if it can truly be proven to be greater.
Imagine now that this world is a closed system appearing to grow larger but only from within itself. The concept of measure itself is an attribute of this world. Imagine that you could step outside of this world and find refuge, imagine a theater in which you could sit with someone and watch the beauty of endless complexity pass by. Imagine that this someone loves you beyond any limit. Remember you are outside of the world of limit and only observe the world of limit in which love is restricted and given only to those deemed worthy in controlled proportion. In the theater, with the one who loves you beyond all understanding, you can watch as beings try to withhold love, restrict compassion, deny joy, and search in vain for a conditional peace in which they each believe they are the ultimate victor. What a comedy it is as you sympathetically laugh with your loving guide in this theater of true liberation from the traps and pitfalls of the unloving world displayed before you.
You see your body, as it is now within this world. From here it is easy to love yourself completely, failings, shortcomings, defects, and all. Imagine watching death, forgetting, and rebirth as beings try and try again to love in a more equitable and fair way. This example explains the limitlessness of unconditional love. This theater is your true home and your loved one is all of us, together, realizing the insanity of this world of extravagance and scarcity. There can be no great measure without its inverse and in this lies the fallacy of negotiated love.
Know that you will exist in these forms. You are not at one, you are not separate, you are both at one and separate. The mind of the separate may never come to understand the nonexistence of limits. Rest assured, your mind in oneness does understand this. We have left this insane thought behind in our fully realized state. Limit as you must in this world of separation, but know you are loved beyond limits as your true realized Self. There is truly nothing worthy of fear, anger, hatred, and confusion for these exist only in a dream of a world that we watch together from peace.
Zen Momentum 