Real love is to love them that hate you.

A quote by Mahatma Gandhi.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference

between myself and others. A quote by Milarepa. What is love? This is a foundational topic, a life-changing topic. The material in this

episode will transform your whole life if you are able to hear it.

But also, the explanations here will be rather advanced,

requiring that you keep a very open mind.

And that is because our society does a very poor job of explaining what love is.

Our notions of love are very unsophisticated and juvenile.

And so therefore when you hear a very deep explanation of what love is,

a metaphysical explanation, well, you might bulk at it, because it's going to sound so different

from what you thought, and of course what you thought was based upon what you got from our culture.

If you're at spiral dynamic stage orange,

if you're a materialist, a scientifically minded person, a skeptic, a rationalist, an atheist, a cynic,

then again you might bulk at some of the things I'm going to say here.

Because fundamentally, spiral dynamic stage orange

refuses to admit that the universe can have any human qualities and of course

love from that paradigm seems like it's a human quality.

It seems like a flaky, airy, fairy sort of thing,

which has nothing to do with the truth, nothing to do with objective reality.

These are just romantic sentimental emotions.

That's how it looks from that materialist paradigm and that's what we're going to be challenging.

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