Santiago

Based on these aggregates, carnal love arises… constructed around a fabricated self, then projected onto another who remains ultimately unownable, unrelatable, and untouchable. On the basis of these senses, your love is filtered through and confined by the senses. This is the worldly type of love. The noble type of love is not carnal, not of the senses, not of the aggregates; it is in neither the production of good nor bad kamma, the state of non-ownership. In that state of non-ownership, one cannot pass judgment; one cannot hate what one desires to control in another; one cannot take what is not given; one cannot create the conditions to cause physical or mental anguish to another uninitiated person. There is no one for it. For as long as there is the belief that there is a self in this other “person being transgressed,” through that created self they also take up that which is not theirs, resulting in the suffering of two established in ownership, two who wrongly take their refuge in ownership. From this stem all types of toxic relationships. Switching positions in the samsaric wheel, none of them blameless. Both created selves hopelessly magnetic to each other until there are no more eyes and no more teeth to be had. It is then indeed as the Tathagata said:

1). “Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is an eternal law”

2). “Bhikkhus, when the perception of impermanence is developed and cultivated, it eliminates all sensual lust, it eliminates all lust for existence, it eliminates all ignorance, it uproots all conceit “I am.”

3). “So, bhikkhus, with ignorance as condition, formations come to be; with formations as condition, consciousness; with consciousness as condition, mentality-materiality; with mentality-materiality as condition, the sixfold base; with the sixfold base as condition, contact; with contact as condition, feeling; with feeling as condition, craving; with craving as condition, clinging; with clinging as condition, being; with being as condition, birth; with birth as condition, ageing and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair come to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.”

Anicca is truly a mercy for the Puthujjana. For without change, they would remain bound to their own fabrications forever.

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