Hi friends. Some of you know this, but I will be doing a weekly series on various meditations. I was going to focus on the works of Anthony De Mello, but I decided I’m also going to include Beinsa Duono, and really whoever else crosses my eye that I feel we can all benefit & learn from.
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Today we will focus on some works from Beinsa Duono.
Beinsa was an esoteric christian, an initiate and profound teacher. His works (luckily most have been translated from Bulgarian to English) are incredibly powerful.
For a full plunge into his works, I suggest reading “Harmonizing of the Human Soul”. These meditations here are from “The Might of Love”.
I will select certain phrases and make a few comments, but largely this is passed on for your reflection.
Understand that this is translated, and also, as with any esoteric teachings, language can be veiled, or sometimes not meant to be taken literally.
For example:
‘Love’ is blind, but its marriage gives its eyesight back.
One may read that and think you need to be married to know Love. This sentence can be taken many ways, but that is not what he is saying.
Notice it says “its marriage” not “marriage”.
Also understand the true meaning(s) of the word marriage: Union, commitment, mutual commitment.
It could be applied to the marriage between a human and The Love; the task of setting out to perceive Love in all things, first and foremost. It could speak to the union within, or to the union with God, which is Love.
It could be applied to other scenarios as well. I will let you marinate on that, because I certainly don’t have “the answer” for anyone, I’m just passing things on:
1. The Love doesn't belong to man. 2. "Love" is blind, but its marriage gives its eyesight back. 3. Only that which has happened with love will remain. 4. It's a great benefit to have the love of a man. 5. The best medicine is Love. 6. First, Love -- afterward, everything else comes. 7. When Love permeates deeply into the man, he becomes rich. 8. If you don't love people, you destroy yourself. 9. Cruelty - means denying Love. 10. Love breaks down all chains. 11. Love is the awakening of the supreme in man. 12. All benefits are nothing before Love. 13. Only Love can create true life. 14. Love to God must be stronger than the love to people. -Beinsa Duono
We’re going to examine a few more lines here:
Love is a mighty alchemy. Love converts death into immortality. Love is a passport for coming back to paradise. Only Love carries in itself the truth. The human love brings death, but the Divine brings life. Love is a holy science for all the times. Through Love you enter into another world. When Love enters in man - the unclean spirits exit out of him. With Love the air is full of vital energy. One can be without religion and church, but without Love, one cannot be. When you lose Love, then comes the criticism. Emptiness is in those, who have no love. Anything that is out of the realm of love is not real. Love, Wisdom and Truth -- these are the greatest powers in the Universe. Happy people are people who appreciate Love. When Love enters a man, it improves everything. Have love towards your fate and it will improve. Love produces the most beautiful life. Humbleness is an expression of love to the Eternal. Closeness among people depends on the love they have. Love, this is the rays of the light. Who loves you? He who brings in morals and life in you. Law: If you love somebody, he loves you too. -Beinsa Duono
A lot jumped out. Beinsa speaks often about seeing God in man (humans, don’t trip out about gender terms here) and will also speak about, when we are loved by man, that is God loving through that man, loving us. And vice versa.
Those who have felt a type of love that they cannot explain, something that didn’t feel like their own — you know what I’m talking about.
In this society, we confuse attachment with love. A dopamine hit for the Profound. And the “Profound” doesn’t need to be some perpetual firework show either. We have been programmed to look for Love in all its synthetic masks - most of us have no idea what it is… except, deep down, we do.
It’s in our Nature. It’s in our cellular memory. It is our Nature.
We do know, we just get numb and forget.
Law: If you love somebody, he loves you too.
That one weirded me out the most. I’ve been reading Beinsa’s works, it is not common that he drops a “Law” in there, but he will on rare occasion. He does not use that term loosely. This is something for me to think about, because I do not know how that is possible, from the viewpoint of my own mental filter.
Emptiness is in those, who have no love.
Anything that is out of the realm of love is not real.
Death will certainly teach you the truth in that last line. I’ll say no more. Profound grief that levels you to your knees and throws you into another dimension - pay attention to what it is showing you.
Emptiness is in those….
Yes, that is true. I speak often with people who report trying to bounce out of long periods of self-neglect, self-abandon and isolation. I’ve been there myself. I remember what it felt like. A true starvation, a poverty — not one of financial means, but one of the spirit.
When we abandon ourselves we are more or less decapitated. Then whatever we seek, it will only be something that resonates and reflects with our own predicament, which is self-abandonment, so do not be surprised when people / places / things you attract when in that space are ones that betray, neglect, abuse or abandon you, or have cruel effects to them.
It’s also a huge risk factor for people getting into abusive relationships, I’ve written on that in a prior article. It is crucial to return to ourselves, and also to build connection with people in real life.
Internet shit does not count. It’s a half-measure. It is not the same thing as being within the same energy and aura of another human being.
If you don’t love people, you destroy yourself.
Cruelty - means denying love.
There is no separation.
We are destroyed if we do not love others. And? We will always deny love, if we do not love ourselves (hence, destroy ourselves).
Love, Wisdom and Truth - These are the greatest powers in the Universe.
For anyone who has an issue with the word God, or struggles to find something to believe in, there you go. Believe in those. Become a disciple and instrument and vessel for those.
Those principles, embodied and in-action principles (do not let this be some intellectual idea and nothing more) are a solution for you.
As it has been stated, “you do not need religion, you do not need a church, but you do need The Love.”
And without Wisdom, one cannot recognize Love, and without Truth, it is not love. That’s my take on it.
You don’t have to be some ultra-spiritual old sage to have wisdom. It’s already in you.
But don’t get it twisted, you have to put in the work to excavate everything in you that blocks you from the Truth, Love and Wisdom that already lives in you.
This is a game of remembering and unlearning, more than anything else. In my experience and opinion, at least. Feel free to add your own.
P.S. “when you lose The Love, then comes the criticism.” I immediately thought of
from Post Post Modern when I read that. In our conversation on her podcast, something she said in that two-hour conversation really stood out to me. She said, “Judgment kills love.”I agree.
"But don’t get it twisted, you have to put in the work to excavate everything in you that blocks you from the Truth, Love and Wisdom that already lives in you"
I like what you did here. Your first question on the topic to me means that we have to take that meaning of the word, a joining, in several ways and taken Christian teaching into this it reminds me of when one of the Apostles, I forget which one, says I must decreas while HE must increase the God in us, and that means there's going to be mirroring and masking in there until we step into loving ourselves and doing so enough to take those hard looks, commitment to doing what it takes especially after long periods of grief. Rebuilding and making that structure stronger.
"Yes, that is true. I speak often with people who report trying to bounce out of long periods of self-neglect, self-abandon and isolation. I’ve been there myself. I remember what it felt like. A true starvation, a poverty — not one of financial means, but one of the spirit"
Bravo, the best way being starved of love,gratitude, appreciation and opportunity feels leave people ravenous yet to the point where they have been fasting and are on next level shit now. A DNOTS kind of journey and know better choices must be made to not allow ourselves to not take care of the mundane. Let no fly enter your cave. Then taking into consideration that first quote on marriage we have to be committed, married to being good to ourselves to take care of our relationships so maybe we are getting it mirrored back to us the way spouses do to one another to try to spark positive change and even within ourselves. Great topic dude. ❤️🔥
God is love and when we love we are a reflection of God