Zen Story: Intelligence serves love only within love
@innertalks (22104)
Australia
August 22, 2022 5:17pm CST
The old Zen master, Restov Zerplexke, was getting very old, and he realised that he was losing some of his innate sharpness of mind.
He wondered if he lost his mind, to dementia completely, if he would still be a loving person, a conscious person, or just an irascible old idiot, then instead, aggressively aggressive, as some of these sufferers are.
He went into his retreat room, in his monastery, and he meditated on this trying to move away from his fear, of this happening, and to still his agitated mind.
He came up with these ideas:
Intelligence is consciousness mixed with love.
Consciousness is love mixed with intelligence
Love, though, is more that just consciousness mixed with intelligence.
Love has the God factor in it.
Was he right in these ideas, as they sprung up into his mind?
"Yes,"
he thought to himself.
"That does sound pretty right."
While God is love, his love is intelligently alive in consciousness in his creation, but the awareness of these whole three manifesting facets of God, (love, intelligence, and consciousness) is a sort of field of God, which spreads from the one point of focussed God, into an infinite energy field of him too.
We could call this energy field love, as love is God, and God is love. Love is God's energy.
Silence speaks within only itself, and noise never hears it speak.
And so it is with God, we hear him in his creation, but we can only hear him in his silence, when we return his love intelligently, and consciously, back to him from ourselves.
Then we connect to God awarely, onely with him, alive totally in him, and in a way dead to ourselves, and our separateness, but in reality, more alive in our separateness of oneness, than ever before too.
The old monk was losing his mind to dementia, but God's love lived in him, just the same.
Real intelligence serves love only within love.
We do not always need the smartness of our brain to serve love, and God too. The Zen master felt again at peace, after his meditation.
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Our inner love never suffers from dementia. God stays at home in us, despite the outer circumstances. God is love.
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@aninditasen (16501)
• Raurkela, India
23 Aug 22
That's true indeed and deep meditation never leads to dementia. We can forget something for a while but can remember it if we concentrate on it.
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@innertalks (22104)
• Australia
23 Aug 22
Yes, the memories still seem to be there, but just need to be gotten to, and meditation, sometimes allows them to resurface in us too, as needed.
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@innertalks (22104)
• Australia
24 Aug 22
@aninditasen lt does seem to lessen your aggression factor too, and you become more docilely peaceful too.
I have noticed some even slow down in speech rate, and so they can seem a bit lethargic, at times too.
But, perhaps that was just the TM transcendental meditation l was involved with at the time.
It put me off a bit, as it seemed to make them less quick witted, and too laidback.
I was young then, and l didn't want to be slowed down like that.
I moved to doing a more active meditation style after that, with Osho.
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@aninditasen (16501)
• Raurkela, India
24 Aug 22
@innertalks Yes meditation helps in sharpening your memory and intelligence.
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@innertalks (22104)
• Australia
28 Aug 22
I am sorry. I have missled you there, it seems.
This is a fiction story that I wrote here.
There is no such Zen master.
I made him up, as l like to put my ideas into fiction pieces, like that.
@RasmaSandra (80847)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22 Aug 22
I totally agree that God is love and His love is always with us and if we keep to our faith we never have to fear to lose that love.
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@innertalks (22104)
• Australia
22 Aug 22
Yes, our outer life is important, but our inner life, and its connection to God is far more important.
Our faith can both bolster our inner and outer life, as we can have both faith in our heart, and faith in our mind too.
We usually need both faiths to keep us going without fear, as without a mind also focused on God, fears can develop in there, despite the continuing faith in our hearts.
We need to keep all of us, all parts of us, loving God, as Jesus Christ told us to do, in his two great commandments, to love God with our whole person, with our heart, our mind, our body, and our soul, and to love others too.
@Shiva49 (26785)
• Singapore
27 Aug 22
People can react to dementia in different ways.
Some feel lost while others become aggressive depending on their natural instincts and the lifestyle they are used to.
My father was true to himself. He was fiercely independent all through and found it tough to change to dependence on others. In a way, when the push came to the shove, he sort of called it quits.
I do not look forward to that phase of life, but it is not in my hands as the ground below my feet is slowly giving away!
The Zen master was well prepared to ride through all phases of life with love guiding them.
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@innertalks (22104)
• Australia
28 Aug 22
In some ways, dementia, might be a blanket for fears, as you hardly know about your dying, but I would like to retain awareness, if possible, right up to my last breath, as my mother did too.
@innertalks (22104)
• Australia
28 Aug 22
@Shiva49 And one of my old friends, always told me that she wanted to die in her sleep without being aware of it. She got her wish too.
Some of us do get what we have wished for, it seems.
@innertalks (22104)
• Australia
30 Aug 22
@Shiva49 I wonder if having no regrets in our life, is the same as being happy with our lives, or totally fulfilled too.
Some beggar on the streets could also say that they had no regrets in their life either, and that they wouldn't change even one part of it, but that does not necessarily also mean that that life was a good productive life, of fulfilment, as some people do not need to be fulfilled by outer ambitions, it seems.
@florelway (23286)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Aug 22
God's commandment centers on Love. Love for God and Love for others.
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@innertalks (22104)
• Australia
23 Aug 22
Yes, I think that shows that commandments can be given with love, from love, and if we follow them, we will then know what real love is then too.
God is love, and love goes out from him to all parts of his creation.
