ONLY LOVE CAN DISPEL HATE: An excerpt from Giten’s coming book “Silence is the Way” on the teachings of Buddha
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Swami Dhyan Giten
SILENCE IS THE WAY
The Teachings of Buddha
“ Silence is the invisible door to God.”
Swami Dhyan Giten
3. Only love can dispel hate
From Satsang with Giten on Buddha, November 12, 2015, in Stockholm
“Satsang weekend with Giten was like coming home. I went into samadhi three times during the satsang weekend – and I also got a map and an understanding for how to go into samadhi again.”
– Satyama Padma, participant in Satsang weekend with Giten, December 9-11, 2016, in Stockholm
Buddha says:
SPEAK OR ACT WITH AN IMPURE MIND
AND TROUBLE WILL FOLLOW YOU
AS THE WHEEL FOLLOWS THE OX THAT DRIVES THE CART
When Buddha uses the concept “impure mind”, he means mind.
Mind is impure, and no-mind is pure.
SPEAK OR ACT WITH AN IMPURE MIND means to speak or act from the mind.
AND TROUBLE WILL FOLLOW YOU means that misery and suffering is the result of the mind, because the mind means unawareness.
Mind will bring trouble and suffering as certain AS THE WHEEL FOLLOWS THE OX THAT DRIVES THE CART.
WE ARE WHAT WE THINK
ALL THAT WE ARE ARISES WITH OUR THOUGHTS
SPEAK OR ACT WITH A PURE MIND
AND HAPPINESS WILL FOLLOW YOU
AS YOUR SHADOW, UNSHAKABLE
When Buddha says “pure mind”, he means no-mind, awareness.
Happiness will follow you if you have a pure mind or no-mind.
Suffering is a result of mind, of unawareness, happiness is a result of no-mind, of awareness.
Happiness cannot be searched for directly, happiness can only be found if you do not search it directly.
On the contrary, you have to search for awareness.
When awareness comes, happiness comes of its own accord.
“LOOK HOW HE ABUSED ME AND BEAT ME,
HOW HE THREW ME DOWN AND ROBBED ME”
LIVE WITH SUCH THOUGHTS AND YOU LIVE IN HATE
“LOOK HOW HE ABUSED ME AND BEAT ME
HOW HE THREW ME DOWN AND ROBBED ME”
ABANDON SUCH THOUGHTS AND LIVE IN LOVE
Fear and hate exists in the past and the future, love exists in the moment, in the here and now.
Love exists in the present moment.
Fear and hate has a reference in the past.
Somebody has abused you in the past, and you are carrying it like a wound.
Fear and hate is a limitation. If you hate somebody, you also create a hate in the heart of that person towards you.
The world lives in fear, hate, destructiveness and violence.
Hate creates hell on earth, love creates a paradise on earth.
True love comes from your inner being.
It is spontaneously welling up of joy, which has nothing to do with the past or the future.
True love is in the moment.
IN THIS WORLD
HATE NEVER YET DISPELLED HATE
ONLY LOVE DISPELS HATE
THIS IS THE LAW
ANCIENT AND INEXHAUSTIBLE
Hate never dispels hate, darkness cannot dispel darkness.
Only love can dispel hate.
The eternal law is that only love dispels hate, only light dispels darkness.
Bring light into a room and the darkness disappears by itself.
How can you bring light into your own being?
Through becoming silent, aware, awake and conscious.
That is how to bring the light in.
The moment you are aware and awake, hate will not be found.
It is not possible to hate somebody with awareness.
You can only hate somebody in unawareness.
When you are conscious, hate disappears, when you are not conscious, then hate is there.
Love and hate, light and darkness, cannot exist together, because hate is the absence of love, darkness is the absence of light.
YOU TOO SHALL PASS AWAY
KNOWING THIS, HOW CAN YOU QUARREL
We waste our life in quarreling, in conflict, when life is so short.
Use your whole energy for awareness and meditation.
Then you can become a light.
Meditation will make you awake, because you will discover your inner being.
Meditation brings an awakening.
For the first time you will feel the truth of your own being.
