How to Cultivate an Environment for Soul Love (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, December 22, 2008 by Lily Wong in Love Wisdom

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Before I start, I’d like to emphasize that we cannot cultivate Soul Love, but we can cultivate and nurture a conducive environment for it to grow and blossom. Imagine yourself as a flower, and Soul Love is the fragrance. You can only wait until the time is right for the fragrance to be released. This concept is explained thoroughly by Osho in his book “Compassion”.

So what’s a conducive environment for Soul Love like? And how do you nurture it, so it would give you the right foothold to reach for Soul Love?

Tools You Need

> Meditation
Meditation is the vehicle to take you towards self-realization. It is here you experience (as opposed to having the knowledge of) love and truth. As we are Love itself, to know the Self is to know Love.

> Spirituality
Spirituality is the foundation from which Love can grow. Spiritual knowingness is not intellectual knowledge. It is beyond the mind. Spiritual knowingness is simply knowing who you are beyond your human self; rather than having knowledge about the definition of spirituality given by other people. Knowingness is natural. It can be likened to that kind of momentous realization– when you have an aha moment, an epiphany; or you JUST KNOW that it is the truth without knowing how you know.

The Environments to Cultivate: Mind, Body and Heart

The Cultivation Plan

1. Clarity
Like preparing the soil, you first start with cultivating clarity for all your three inner environments: mind, body and heart. You need both meditation and spiritual understanding as your tools. Clarity is all-essential because inner clutter like emotions and mental junk block the natural flow of love.

In cultivating clarity, you are aiming for
         1.  A strong and healthy body
         2.  A clear mind
         3.  An open heart

All these three are essential to follow through the rest of the plan. They are the avenues or channels from which Love can channel from and through you. A clear channel brings forth energy naturally and effortlessly.

Cultivating these three aspects require discipline. Routines and structures are important to help you build good habits to support your effort in making your body, mind and heart healthy and strong.

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