When we are born our mother shows us how to love by holding us gazing into our eyes. That is when the happy neuro-chemicals flood the infant’s brain. These good feelings are what start’s the process of learning love. An infant can’t survive on it’s own. Without love we do not thrive. Those neurons that grow love contribute to the development of our ability to think, feel, create, imagine, act and care for ourselves in the best possible way. Our destructive aggressiveness happens when our natural emotional needs for a loving relationship get frustrated.
Confucius said that every human heart is alike. When this is realized it becomes the basis for living. If we are all alike we should live our lives according to the golden rule, which is understood in every culture and religion including the philosophy of Confucius. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. The meaning for this is really forgiveness.
Natural empathy, or the ability to feel what others feel, is proof that man is essentially good. To be human we need to cultivate and develop the heart of compassion.
If we understand the great chain of being, it is our love that helps grow love in children. Confucius and his followers understood this wisdom, 2500 years ago. His main concern was human relationship. He understood that we were in alignment with our intrinsic purpose on this planet when we were able to have the best relationship with others. Our leaders need to run our countries so that relationships would be in the greatest harmony. Wow a great model for our leaders to embrace.
Why do we seem further from what Franklin Roosevelt stated, after seeing the catastrophe of war; there should be four R’s not three: reading, writing, arithmetic and relationships.
Confucius stated that the ideal person is one who can connect with others, one who can love.
How do we develop our capacity for love and compassion? Confucius said that this begins with tireless self-education. Explore our cultural heritage to understand what pilgrims who have gone before us have learned about love and how to achieve it. We must imagine this ideal and continue to develop this image so that we have a goal to aim for. Our heart of love and compassion is cultivated through our actions, what we do every day. Each day we must practice living up to our highest vision of love. We become more humane- we find our hearts- through giving. We need to open ourselves and passionately risk all for the sake of loving others.
Science has joined philosophy and spirituality in understanding that love is our root, answer, and what we are made of. Through a lifetime of self-exploration, we must look within ourselves to find the lost and hidden heart, because the source of love is within yourself.
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada
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