Loneliness and Love (Part 1)

Master Jesus is MJ.
I'm TM.

Master Jesus speaks on the state of loneliness and how and why love is key.  He says,

"Love is more than the promise of something better.  It is all there is.  Any other state is a creation of someone who isn't connected consciously with the only state there is.  So that that doesn't confuse you, let me state it another way.  When you are experiencing loneliness, fear, doubt, depression or sadness, you have created those states, but they're not real.  They're illusions.  Love is real and the only state."

TM: This is the third conversation with Masters Jesus and Buddha.  I'm never sure how it's going to start.  I sit.  And wait.  I think of things to say but they're not really the things to say only forced ideas that my mind impatiently pushes into the foreground to get it going.

But then a question springs up and that's the beginning.

Why are people in my culture so lonely and are people in other cultures lonely too?

MJ: That's a good question.  Relevant for many people, yet misunderstood in this age of plenty and hectic daily living.  As I look at the times that have passed and note that throughout human history and human suffering, never has there been as much loneliness relative to so much material and social progress.  How could this be?

TM: That was my question.

MJ: Don't you have an idea why it is so?

TM:  I don't really know.  I observe people who are lonely and I feel sad for them.  Sometimes I see people who are surrounded by friends and family and still they are lonely.  They've somehow lost contact in a way that they don't know if they exist or not I suppose. I've had moments when I felt alone, but they seemed fleeting like a day or two and then I remembered something that connected me and I was back.

MJ: Do you imagine hope has anything to do with the feeling of loneliness?

TM: I don't think so, but since you brought it up I imagine that you think it has something to do with it.  Do you?

MJ: No I don't.  But I can tell you that people who are experiencing loneliness feel as if there is no hope for them.  They are hopelessly isolated.

TM: If that's so, then hope does have something to do with it.

MJ: Really?  And how is that?

TM: Well, if there's an absence of hope, then hope has something to do with it—the reason why they're feeling lonely.

MJ: What if they're wrong?  What if hope is just something that fills the gap in a perception of life filled with holes?  What if hope merely replaces for a moment the underlying sense of despair that is the theme of a disjointed view of life?

TM: Yes, but that is the point of hope.  It's sort of a wild card, a get out of jail free card.  It bails you out when you don't know exactly what has you down, whether it's loneliness or depression or sadness.  Hope is a handy antidote.

MJ: That's an interesting way to view it.  I see love fulfilling that promise.  So is hope a bridge then to something else?

TM: I guess so in a way.  It's getting out of someplace, an emotional place that feels yucky.  I'd say it's more of an escape "out of" rather than a bridge.  Although I think in order for it to work, obviously it has to be a bridge to something better than the thing that one is getting out of.  But since you brought up love, how is that different from hope?  Isn't it the promise of something better but in a more generalized way?

MJ: Love is more than the promise of something better.  It is all there is.  Any other state is a creation of someone who isn't connected consciously with the only state there is.  So that that doesn't confuse you, let me state it another way.  When you are experiencing loneliness, fear, doubt, depression or sadness, you have created those states, but they're not real.  They're illusions.  Love is real and the only state.

TM: When you say they're not real and love is, what do you mean?  What does real mean?

MJ: The limitations of language are real.  Real means the genuine thing, the enduring, absolute thing.  It is the be all, end all.  There can be no other.  Something is unreal when it poses as something real. Sadness poses as reality, and so does loneliness.  Those states pretend to be real to give you the experience of what it would be like if they were real.

TM: That's fine for you to say, but how can we know that is true?  When people are lonely or sad they are those things.  That is a real experience.

MJ: I see how you trap yourself in believing that those states are as real as love.  Let's say that only one thing can be real.  Let's also say that everything other than that thing is unreal. The only reason you would believe that the unreal things are real is that you believe the real thing is unreal.

TM: Now you're messing with my head.  I don't follow you.  I know love is real.  When I experience love I know it and it's real. Then there can be a moment when I experience loneliness and it's different than love and for that moment it is real and love isn't activated or present, at that moment, so the other thing is and it's real.  Why can't they all be real?

MJ:  So, by your reasoning all things are real and none are unreal?

TM: Yes, I guess that's true.

MJ: But only one of them can be real at one time, is that it?

TM: For the most part, yes.  But I think there are times when I experience more than one state at a time, or there's some overlap. Often I can sense the transition from one state to another.

MJ: What causes the shift then, from one to another?

TM: I don't know, it just shifts.  Thoughts trigger the shift I suppose.

MJ: And you create the thoughts, is that correct?

TM: Yes.

MJ: And you create the thoughts with the intent to shift from one state to another, or is it involuntary?

TM: Well, mostly I think if you're depressed or lonely then you're motivated to shift out and so it's a conscious act.  If you're in a happy or joyous state and you start to slip into another state it seems more of an unconscious act.  I mean people basically want to be happy and so they strive to stay that way.  If they're sad they try to get to the happy state.

MJ: I noticed you used happy and joy, not love.  Why is that?

TM: I remember what you've said, that happy and joy are states of love.

MJ: So does that make love a meta-state?

TM: Could be I guess.

MJ: If love is a meta-state and happiness and joy are states that reflect love, then what meta-state does loneliness and despair reflect?  Or do you consider them to be meta-states?

TM: I consider them to be undesirable states.  But I don't know the answer, maybe they reflect evil.

MJ: Now we're getting somewhere.  So, you believe then that love and evil are the meta-states and from those the others come into momentary reflection?

TM: I wasn't aware that I thought that, but maybe I do or maybe I just don't know and you're putting words into my mouth.  I have never thought that deeply about it.  I guess I'm like most people I just live my life from one state to the next trying to stay a little longer in the good ones and avoiding the undesirable ones.

MJ: Well, that's an honest answer and one that represents the majority, if not all, the human race.  But surely you have thought deeply about these things, as have others.  Is it that you don't trust the conclusions you've reached?

TM: I think it's more like I've never really concluded anything.  I resort to the old story of love and evil, good and bad, happy and sad, because that's easier than risking a new story that may not be true.   And at least the old one is accepted by nearly everyone.

MJ: It's time to risk a new story.  I think you already have, but you're not sure whether or not you want to tell it.  What if you're wrong, right?  Then you've duped yourself and everyone else who believed you.  I've told it and others have told it.  It gets changed a little here and there so that it looks more like the old story to make it more comfortable for everyone.  So, I'll tell it again.

TM: Please do.  I'm willing to listen.  Is this going to answer my original question about loneliness?

MJ: Yes, and more.  Love is all there is in this universe. It is the meta-state.  Every other state of emotion you experience is either a reflection of love, or it is a state you have individually and collectively created in order to experience that which isn't love. Evil is the creation of humanity and is unreal.  It appears real because you believe it is as part of your collective agreement to do so.

You experience life one moment at a time on Earth.  You experience life on more than the Earth dimension.  The meta-state of love is on all dimensions.  You create within the realm of Earth during your incarnation here.  Your creation does not extend beyond this dimension.  You can choose to create with love or you can choose to create with that which is not love.  At the point when your creation is purely from love then your boundary of creation will expand.  That is the moment we are all waiting and working for.

The challenge of humanity is to synthesize all that is in your human nature with all that is in your spiritual nature.  Love is in both and will temper the fusion.  Give up your addiction to your own creation when it isn't in alignment with love.

Copyright © 2004-2005 TM

Comments

[DB]

Would anyone agree that the feeling immediately following the coming "down" out of being on a spiritual "high" down't seem to be far removed from the feeling of what an addict must face every time they have sobered up and are in need of a "fix" ?

[Ted Roach]

This is Just a personal experience of love and loneliness that I would like to share.

One time I prayed for an enlightening experience and had this "I Am" realization. I realized that this presence which says "I Am" is all that there is, and the rest is illusion. At that moment I felt more alone than I could have ever Imagined. Just me, this spherical mass of electric violet life energy, alone for all eternity. I felt as if anything was possible, but it didn't matter because I was just alone forever. Initially, I wanted to forget about the whole experience.
Time passed (or at least I was under that illusion)and I could not seem to let it go, until one day while telling a friend about the experience I realized this "I Am" presence in me, was the same "I Am" presence in my friend. Instantly I felt as if a circuit had been completed and I felt this relieving feeling of divine love sweep over me. I then realized I had forgotten about love in my "I Am" realization, and realized as well that love is the only important thing that is, and all that I truly want to be and express for all eternity. Love is the extra L that makes aloneness into
alL-Oneness. I love you all because "I Am". "I Am" Divine love, all that is. Thank you for this beautiful lesson Master Jesus!

[Carla]

thankyou to remind us of the essential state of life!

[kyle]

firstly, thank you so much for expressing your life with such courage as to not be embarassed about claiming to have conversations with the great spiritual masters. i can only imagine the limb you must feel you've gone out on, but be assured that sharing this gift is not in vain.

i find the analogy that jesus draws between addiction and loneliness endlessly fascinating. what i wonder, is what exactly it is about the experience of "the blues" that we are actually addicted to? my own thinking on this has evolved considerably, but i'll share a few things based on my limited understanding.

the times in life in which i've felt profound joy and love (group meditation, high levels of artistic or physical expression, etc.) often coincide with the feeling of being truly alive, fully exsisting in my own bag of skin. however, the fleeting nature of this phenomena often seems to leave a certain distaste, since no emotional state is permanent. paradoxically, i think that pain is simply another way to bring oneself into contact with feeling truly alive. it may be awful, but at least you are truly *there*. examining my own feelings of depression and ennui, i often find that below the surface there lurks a kind of exsitential boredom with the present conditions of my life, and that these dark feelings bring you back in contact with the basic forces of the universe, albeit in a self-destructive manner. and since we as creatures are so senstive and curious and wise, to abide in simple equanimity is much more of a leap of faith than most of us on the spiritual path are prepared to admit, our exhortations for peace and love notwithstanding. i haven't yet read the other two parts of this conversation, but perhaps this issued is explored further. again, thanks for sharing!