Love = Selflessness

• The more selfless you are, the more loving you are going to be
• Look how simply it is, it’s geniously simple, it’s very difficult to implement
• This is the ideal form of love
• The whole work as a human is learning how to love, by becoming more selfless
• spiritually develops this ability by making you more god like, because god is unlimited love
• How would a totally powerful omniscient being treat you ? Treat others? Treat its surroundings?

The Pillars of Love

1. Attention, awareness, time
2. Physical contact, physical proximity
3. Connection
   1. Trying to connect with this thing
   2. Intellectually, spiritually, emotionally
4. Taking good care of it, meeting its needs
5. Recognize the beauty and the value of its existence
   1. Creating unbiased, love
   2. Godly forms of love vs. self biased love
6. Sheltering it from excessive fear, suffering, and trauma
7. Having its back, defending it, being loyal to it
8. Taking on its agenda as your own
9. Meeting it where it currently is in life
   1. Meeting objects that are less conscious and less developed than you are
   2. Example: Adult talking to a small child, talking to the child in the way that it understands
   3. Example: Talking to the drug addict: “just tuff and out and just quit” that’s not the level that they are currently at
10. Making its agenda an extension of you, treating it as your own/ as you, a finite sense of self and incorporating it.
11. Learning to extend your love outwards, being a part of other people’s lives