Law Of Love

It's an honor to be here today to share with you a celebration of love. Isn't it amazing that our society has set aside a day devoted to the celebration of love? Of course, there are commercial interests which are perpetuating this, and that's fine too. There is a lot of room for the heart in commerce as well.

Now it's interesting that we don't call this "love's day", we call it Valentine's Day. When I was asked to present here, I became curious about why we call it Valentine's Day. Some of you may know the story of Valentine's Day. I found it very interesting. Valentinus was a Christian martyr who lived in 270 AD in Rome. And because of his belief in Christ he was sentenced to death. He refused to recant his beliefs. The Roman Emperor at the time was Claudius II. While Valentinus was awaiting the carrying out of his sentence, his jailor noticed that he was a very learned man. The jailor had a daughter, her name was Julia, and she was blind from birth. And he asked Valentinus if he would be so kind as to teach Julia the things that he knew. Valentinus agreed. And so he taught her mathematics and history. He taught her about the world.

She was with him the night before his sentence was to be carried out. She asked him if God hears all our prayers. He replied that God does what is best for all of us, and He hears everything, and if you really believe then what happens, happens for your best interests.

And so she said, "You know what I pray for every night and every morning? I pray that I can see all the wonderful things that you've told me about and that you've described." He said that if you believe, and it should be so, it will be so. She said, "I do believe, I do believe."

Suddenly there was a radiance that filled the room, filled the space; a radiance in the emptiness, as it were. Suddenly she cried out, "I can see. I can see." This is a documented experience.

That night he wrote to her and said, "Always continue to believe and hold God in your heart." And he signed it "your Valentine." His sentence was carried out the next day. Julia planted an almond tree at his grave. He is buried at a place that is now called The Porto Valentini in Rome. There is an almond tree that blossoms every year that is said to be the one that Julia planted.

Wonderful story, isn't it?

It is only when it's taken away, really, that we realize how blessed we are just to be able to see, to have physical sight. And we are equally blessed with spiritual sight or insight into the core of our being; into the loving awareness that's our essential nature.

When our loving heart becomes the eye through which we look at the world around us, what is it that we see? We see the web of life. We see all forms interconnecting, arising, relating, subsiding back into the formless one sometimes called the void, the ocean of awareness, the Source of everything/nothing. Call it God, whatever the word is you want to use for the unknown, unknowable beyond the known.

So on this day, when we say to our loved ones "I love you", what are we really saying? Words are sign posts that point to something. So what does the word "love" point to? Just go within for a moment and explore what the word "love" points to for you.

What comes up frequently are thoughts, feelings, sensations in the space of awareness called "I". So let's look at these three words. I love you. I, me, or subject, loves you, object. Now what if the distinction or separation between subject and object was just a perceptual illusion created by the mind and its extension of the senses?

What if subject/ object, "I," "you," observer and observed were not ever really separate, but only appear to be? What would be left of "I love you" if at a deeper level there was no separate "I" or "you"?

What would be left is "love;" the thoughts, the feelings and especially a felt sense of connectedness called love. And what is this felt sense of connectedness? In the world of form it is energy.

What is energy, its essence is movement or vibration? What is it that's moving?

Ultimately it's the void, space; the stillness that's full of potential; the faster the movement, the higher the vibrational frequency, the greater the energy. Let's look at this for a moment. When something is moving back and forth, it comes to a place where it stops before it moves in the opposite direction; so it is moving back and forth, back and forth; movement and stop, movement and stop. As the energy increases its movement, stop, movement, stop, until, as you can imagine, the energy is so high and it's moving so fast that the stops overlap the movement. Then what do you have? Once again, the stopping and movement overlap and become the void, or no thing, pure total potential, the ocean of awareness.

I was in Bali a number of years ago and I saw a wonderful Balinese dance. Those of you who are aware of Balinese music know there's a lot of energy, a lot of movement. Suddenly, at one point, everything just stopped. The dancer was totally still, but so full of energy that it overwhelmed the whole room, and yet not one movement was made. It was awesome.

The same thing happened when I went to hear Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in Carnegie Hall playing the Ode To Joy years ago when I was a medical student. In the forth movement of Beethoven's 9th there's a crescendo and then everything just stops. That stillness was more powerful than the whole choir and all the music. It was really awesome. So nothing moves and becomes something; these quantum fluctuations of the void that create the waves, the particles.

A revered sage from India, Nisargadatta, said "When I recognize that I am everything that is love. When I recognize that I am no thing, that is wisdom, and my life flows between the two."

He could have added, when I recognize that I am no thing, that is peace. The every thing is fullness, the vibrancy, energy, passion. We call it passion. The no thing, the space, the stillness is peace. And love expresses and experiences itself as both the passion and the peace; cyclically or alternately, and also simultaneously unfolding in the totality of being.

The peace and the passion of love-that radiant emptiness Julia felt with Valentinus; the dazzling darkness, really the source and the resolution of duality. So how does love's passion lead to love's peace? Love's passion seeks unity; that's the passion-it is seeking to become one again. When it finally merges with the unity that it seeks, what happens to the seeking, the searching, the desiring for the one? It stops. All movement, all seeking ends and only stillness remains; only the peace remains.

When I recognize that I am everything, one with everything, then there's no wanting anything because I already am everything. No wanting anything to be different from the way it is because I am all of it. So this ultimate passion of love, this alive desireless presence is simultaneously the peace of love. We are both the passion and the peace of love, love's form and formlessness, a delicious drop of love that dissolves into the unknowable, unspeakable one, only to reappear as the love dance of unity.

Leonard Laskow

1) Learn to access universal life force energy
to heal yourself, other people and animals
and use it as a way to preserve your energy.

2)What are all the ways this universal life force energy-called the Life Force--can heal your life

3) Learn how the pulse brings you into synchronization with
your co-workers and patients

4) Learn to remember and recognize the pulse energy and get it to
work its miracle in your life

5) The pulse will not reveal itself at certain times-when drinking
quantities of alcohol, or taking pharmaceutical drugs that
alter consciousness in any way. The pulse cannot be sustained
in a toxic environment

6) The pulse is best felt and recognized when your thinking
processes are slowed or halted, such as after prayer and meditation,
after a physical workout, or during and after a cleansing fast

7) The pulse cannot be experienced in negative mind states such
when angry or depressed, or when feeling resentful, guilty or shameful

8) The pulse is amplified when you feel joyful, loving,
transcendent and peaceful

Finding the pulse everyday is part of my spiritual practice.
When I find it in meaningful exchanges with people or animals,
after prayer or meditation, or when I lay hands on a person or
an animal's body to bring healing, I feel energized and
inspired for many hours.

Even if I only find the pulse for 2 to 20 minutes in a 12 to
16 hour nursing shift, I'm happier, more in tune, and feel as if
my destiny is in full evolution.

I don't go into withdrawal if I don't experience The Pulse for
a day or a week. But rather, the simple act of remembering it
is all that is needed at any given time.

The Pulse can be activated by sending loving thoughts to a person,
animal or tree, flower or rock and placing your hands on that person,
beast or natural thing of beauty. Imagine the energy of the earth
with the In-Breath coming up through your feet and meeting in your
heart.

With the same In-Breath, imagine the energy of the Heavens, coming
down through the top of your head, or Crown Chakra, and meeting the
energy from the earth in your heart.

Circulate this heart energy in a counter-clockwise fashion (from your
perspective).

Now with the outbreath, imagine the energy going down through your
arms, through your hands, and into the person, beast or natural object.

Enjoy this circulating energy!

Place your attention at the point between your eyebrows, the third eye
or sixth chakra, throughout this period of time.

Think Loving Thoughts.

After some practice, or after a few rotations of energy, or even
immediately, you will feel The Pulse.

After some practice, or after a few rotations of energy, or even
immediately, you will feel The Pulse.

Allow The Pulse to heal you, to heal the object of your healing,
and to give you the needed alert energy to go out in to the world
and heal the planet--and The Entire Universe!

The Pulse is a gift from the angels or God/ess as you choose to
understand God/ess.

The Pulse is innocent and pure.

The Pulse cannot and must not be used in a manipulative way.
Forinstance, don't use The Pulse with the idea of curing a person,
but rather think of The Pulse as an ultimate healing ambrosia, that
playfully and peacefully does its work independently--but simply
needs you to direct it--

Then it will take on a life of its own.

Think of The Pulse as you communicate with all the proverbial
unseen forces of the universe. And in the act of connecting with it,
you become One with it.

You Are It!!After some practice, or after a few rotations of energy, or even
immediately, you will feel The Pulse.

Allow The Pulse to heal you, to heal the object of your healing,
and to give you the needed alert energy to go out in to the world
and heal the planet--and The Entire Universe!

The Pulse is a gift from the angels or God/ess as you choose to
understand God/ess.

The Pulse is innocent and pure.

The Pulse cannot and must not be used in a manipulative way.
Forinstance, don't use The Pulse with the idea of curing a person,
but rather think of The Pulse as an ultimate healing ambrosia, that
playfully and peacefully does its work independently--but simply
needs you to direct it--

Then it will take on a life of its own.

Think of The Pulse as you communicate with all the proverbial
unseen forces of the universe. And in the act of connecting with it,
you become One with it.

You Are It!!

After some practice, or after a few rotations of energy, or even
immediately, you will feel The Pulse.

Allow The Pulse to heal you, to heal the object of your healing,
and to give you the needed alert energy to go out in to the world
and heal the planet--and The Entire Universe!

The Pulse is a gift from the angels or God/ess as you choose to
understand God/ess.

The Pulse is innocent and pure.

The Pulse cannot and must not be used in a manipulative way.
Forinstance, don't use The Pulse with the idea of curing a person,
but rather think of The Pulse as an ultimate healing ambrosia, that
playfully and peacefully does its work independently--but simply
needs you to direct it--

Then it will take on a life of its own.

Think of The Pulse as you communicate with all the proverbial
unseen forces of the universe. And in the act of connecting with it,
you become One with it.

You Are It!!

Circulating energy to the heart with the In-Breath, and down through
the arms to the hands with the Out-Breath--is called Grounding,
Centering, Alligning in healing and meditation circles.

You don't have to actually lay your hands on anyone or anything to
perform this.

Grounding, Centering and Alligning can be done any place, any time
to wake up the energy of The Pulse.

For instance, I am in a Federal Courtroom, waiting to be summomed--or not--
to serve on a jury. I silently perform the Grounding/Centering/
Alligning exercise and feel my feet begin to pulse. I become aware
of a seagull on a lamp post on the street outside the window. I
hear people speaking in low voices. I hear a little chime on
someone's watch.

I feel the pulse in my hands as I pause a moment to write these
words. And I silently send this energy throughout the room, giving
all of those here a silent blessing. And visualizing that everyone
here--is precious.

This is called: Creating A Loving Field.

I am in the court room waiting to be chosen as a juror. The
defendant sits next to his lawyer. The room is filled with all
the people who have come to potentially decide the fate of this
man.

One by one, people are disqualified or simply opt out, because
they say that they cannot be impartial or
objective to this man's plight.

His crime? He allegedly did a car jacking and shot the hispanic
man who was driving--but did not kill him.

So the pulse began in my feet, then my legs, arms and hands--and
energy was sent to the man who may or may not have committed this
crime.

I was not chosen to be on his jury, but I certainly wish him well.

Tips To Elicit The Pulse

1) Keep both feel firmly planted on the ground while doing
the Grounding/Centering/Alligning exercise

2) Drink plenty of pure water in order to cleanse and
rejuvenate

3) Drink a cleansing tea such as an herbal tea that you
love or try yerba mata tea--a real rejuvenator

4) After a work-out at the gym, the track, the pool, or after
an outdoor walk, feel The Pulse in your entire body

5) Learn to tune into your body and find out what it is
telling you--tune into its wisdom, its direction and guidance