December 4, 2006
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Love hurts. Hate hurts. Hurt hurts.
The very unwillingness for the heart to be broken is the broken heart.
GANGAJI
We often experience hurt in close relationships, especially with our partners, lovers, and children. There is hurt which generated by fear, exhibit in the human emotions to include jealousy, anger, and sadness. Some of us are willing to endure this hurt because we know that it is worth it. We know that the degree of hurt is measured by the degree of love, and that the more we are willing to be hurt, the more we are willing to love, be loved, and be taught by love. However, most of us are afraid of having our feelings hurt. Yet without the willingness to be hurt, there is no willingness to love, to live. We spend an enormous amount of energy trying to protect ourselves from being hurt and yet in the end we still get hurt. The very unwillingness to experience the hurt is the hurt itself. Love hurts, hate hurts, hurt hurts. What do we do?
What if we are willing to trust love rather than trust our mind’s protection from hurt? What if we simply open to it all? What is the worst that could happen if we love? What if we let love destroys us? If love is to hurt, then why not let it hurt fully? Hurt is just hurt. So what? What if we let the world break our hearts and let the hearts be broken again and again and again into a zillion pieces until it stays open, until true love is reveal? I recommend hurting and loving. It does not means that you stay in abusive relationships. It is to stay true to that which is always true to you, and that is love. You can leave and still love.
An open mind reveals an open heart. An open heart is a vulnerable heart. And the willingness to be vulnerable is the willingness to be hurt. The willingness to be hurt is the willingness to enter the sacred path of the warrior. To be a warrior is to welcome what ever happens without any demands that it should be different than it is. To be a warrior is to live life in the service of love.
I invite you to be a warrior, to enter the sacred path, the inward path to self-inquiry which examine your life and see for yourself your pattern of running away from hurt. See what hurt are you unwilling to experience?
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