Password: Love

The advanced computer technology erected a more sophisticated phenomenon ‘my space.’ This is an area where people are specially invited to enter into a more personal and intimate level. Only intimate buddies are invited to this area. It creates a personal zone, secure and manageable with secretpassword.

A password is the successful key to enter into the personal zone.

The love of Jesus Christ is the password that God has created to establish the broken relationship with humanity. Jesus Christ has given the same password: love to maintain relationship with him and with fellow beings.

Love is in a way creating the space to allow others into ones own heart. It is inviting others to ‘my space;’ to feel, to explore, and be enriched by the warmth. It is allowing others to invade my personal zone. Others are not a threat but the presence of others create a bond of relationship. The password: love, therefore creates a space for my enemy, outcast, and the outsider. That is possible only through letting go of old self. Buddhists call this “little death.”  Jesus said, “unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12.24) Yes our ‘I’ has to undergo little death. John the Baptist said, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3.30)

An Amsterdam policeman – who had been meditating everyday for years, along with a colleague had to disarm a dangerous man. Along with a gun, the man was also carrying a knife, which had used to cut himself. He had sliced through the tendons in his fingers. The officers manged to overpower him and take him to the hospital. When the police officer was leaving the hospital a couple of hours later, the injured man called to the officer, gave him a piercing look and said, “I’ll never forget your eyes.” A simple act of humanity  is all it takes: a look, a smile, a pose, a gesture. (Source: Ode,June, 2007, p31.)

Love one another. (2 John 5c)