Riffin' On Colossians 314

“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect harmony.” Colossians 3:14

What can be said of the mechanics of love that don’t threaten the very air of romance? After all, romance is disciplined yet free, not at all tamed in any social sense of it, at peace and reliably on the right side of mystery in a fashion the constraints of the sciences seem to discourage…lucky beyond luck…utterly unstoppable, yet still clearly naïve, perhaps, to both as much and as to why, this “romance” stuff is...

The son of Man…

Whereas, to put it bluntly, love, the perceived driving force of “romance”, is but simply the perfect union of All things at any given moment. Love, while a “virtue”, is not a virtue like the others, but instead the virtue which takes all of the “virtues” in existence, everything and everyone in existence, and “binds them” “all together” perfectly, creating the lofty service God’s love has always been posited as providing, “perfect harmony”.

Love is synonymous with God. Love is a great action somehow always available to us at any given moment…love is a great action we go through great personal difficulties to ensure is available to us at any given moment… it’s synonymous with personal efficacy as well in this instance. We are forced, by our biological hardwiring, to participate in survival of the fittest…to survive. This cultivates our prospects to act from a place of Love at any given moment…everything we do at all moments, whether we would like to lean into this or not as people, serves the purposes of moving us towards a place where we are likely to be able to act from a place of love in all that we do.

Love, technically, according to this definition, is doing the perfect thing. It’s doing the right thing at the right time…and that is love. But that’s also so obnoxious too.

It’s utterly liberating…like happening upon a sword you can use to free yourself, but it’s a lot to live up to… can we really be expected to put all of the elements in the crazy world which surrounds us “together” into “a perfect harmony” as we’re faced with a litany of days?

Well…enter the troubadour disposition/way of life…the light-touch...fit bodies...enter the “Wu-wei”… “Zen”. If seeking is to be a perpetual affair, as the world keeps shifting around and we are faced with a slew of new data from moment to moment… there is some sense that we have done enough as practitioners on the path… that by now we can turn it all over entirely to Source…

If we are to “put on love” above all things so as to create a “harmony” that truly only the Source is capable of inducing (even if we can induce this with secular action as individuals), then at all moments we need to know…what to do. After all, we are Yogis, expected to be capable of tuning into universal will… we do need to have access to that most ideal response to any and every situation, and we need to be able to do this in pretty much all that we do…

Honestly, I don’t know that any of us could survive the paparazzi…

Still, there is some sense that we are fully expected to do the will of Universe as Individuals and that we need some sense that we are reliably doing as much as Individuals, lest we lose our “inner” peace or social potency. We need a curated experience of the Universe, to really be coddled and fussed over, as if we’re stars…

The son of Man…

We need to be…communed with Source at all moments, doing “love”, that virtue which brings the world around you together into perfect harmony. We need to become one with the Mystic…to fall into the permatrip of the Mystic forevermore…

And it can and does happen to practitioners…of all religions. It sounds creepy somehow in the context of the Yogi, this “brave new type”…but we also don’t like in a Yogic culture so… obviously everyone practices devotionally at some level because they expect magical/miraculous returns for doing as much (even if our heart is in the right place), so I’d argue all religious practice is about rooting the foundation of one’s experience of Being in Infinity moreso than the implications of the finite (optimism vs pessimism). This is what religion does. Is it bringing you to God or God to your world? Sometimes the swing from the former to the latter in regards to focus is the most enthralling time in a person’s life.

God isn’t a concept itching to be used to necessarily save people from sin in the same way that I hope I don’t rescue my next love interest from burning in an auto wreck… it’d be romantic if I did…if the girl was trapped in a flaming car I’d obviously help her…but if I’m sitting on the couch watching Veep on HBO Max I’m not necessarily craving any more excitement…

But I would think it was dope if people kept hitting me up with great ideas to stop suffering in general in the world. Those are situations I’d actually engage, joyously.

He’s not a loaded pistol with pearl plating and a hair trigger…

But he’s possibly like a Visa gift card?

From one stupid vantage point, this journal entry has already presented a framework which could lead to the takeaway… since God is the Singular solution to all situations… then simply having an intent to do God as you face life is literally enough to like ensure your personal and material success in life when appropriately tended to across time… things will definitely work out for you, and life will be enjoyable.

That’s as far of a solace as anything ever can provide, technically, although there would be more dynamic ways to frame that truth to increase the effect of having experienced greater solace….

We are not supposed to lose to problems. Whether global warming or social issues…there’s always a solution, the solution is always Love/God, and honestly humans are unstoppable, so we should all drink lots of coffee and go skydiving.

But seriously if there's like a large tidal wave barreling towards Florida we're supposed to be able to hop onto Soundcloud and have like 12 different clairvoyant dj's to choose from whom we will hire to wave a homemade ceremonial stick in front of said wave, and it'll turn the water into pebbles.

That we don't have that at the moment is absolutely not on me. I've done my part.