Agapé is the solution to dealing with the aspects of reality I described in the following blog page (of course, it’s a page that I wrote and posted before this one). That is possible because we become much more aware of the spiritual aspects of life when we open up to the power of agapé-flow in our life.
So even though modern civilization makes it extremely difficult to accept the other 2 aspects of reality (death and pain) that I wrote about, we are more able to accept them and creatively deal with them because of the spiritual power of agapé. As we work more and more with agapé flowing thru us, opening us up spiritually, then flowing out to enhance our relationships, we learn the hard way to be completely honest about reality.
The way agapé-flow breaks us open to life and makes us more vulnerable, we slowly find our basic perspective on life is profoundly changed. That effects us in ways we never could have imagined. We are able to accept what happens in life — and with people — in ways that come to surprise us when we are able to look back after years of agapé working thru us. And because this only works fully when we practice meditation regularly and in a way that makes us profoundly more aware of the flow of agapé.
By regularly meditating with agapé-flow, we are more deeply able to experience agapé in all aspects of daily life. And such awareness changes our understanding of the pain that comes with life. This awareness helps us learn how to deal with pain, both physical and emotional. And so we gain a perspective that gives our true self the freedom to distinguish the ways in which the conditioning that happened to us early in life caused us to unnecessarily increase suffering. Thru such learning we gain the freedom to deal with pain without increasing our suffering.
And with regularly meditating with agapé, we are able to identify with eternal, creative Essence; and thus to free ourselves from identifying with the false self that became produced by the conditioning that happened to us early in life. The perspective that comes with identifying with eternal, creative Essence allows us to face death in new, more creative ways. And so we slowly find that we easily separate ourselves from the modern world’s obsession with denying death. There is no longer any need to deny death, because we see it from within the flow of agapé and from the perspective of eternal, creative Essence.
