Love vs. Attachment
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Cat. # » AB06 | Created » Jul ‘07, Oct ‘08
Preface to Love and Attachment
Triggering questions
What could have been the nature and quality of parental, coupled or friendly love, if we have not had egos? How much of importance given to the individual uniqueness of the objects of our passions and loves would have remained, had the perspective of our existence been frequently in respect of an infinitely larger energetic force?
Color scheme
Yellow » Striving, spiritual exertion, which leads to the state of love. In the realm of Love it manifests the beings – those who strive embody the Divine spirit. In the realm of Attachment on the other hand, the yellow manifests the background of the figures – it is only the passive awareness and the dormant spirituality. They are embraced by the heat of desires.
Red » Symbolizes all that which is of the source of selfishness and egotism, hence Evil. On the realm of Love they depict the dark side of man, that which will try to terminate these spiritual exertions. On the realm of Love the red depicts the people, who are carried away by the illusions of ‘I’ and ‘Mine’. I’m one of them.
Blue » Wisdom, insight, penetrating observation, equanimity.
Black » Ignorance, fear.
White » The Absolute.
Love
The nature of Love
Deep down, the core of our minds is of the divine state of pure and open unconditioned love, which expects nothing in return. The state of divine love is embracing, all-encompassing and radiates impartially and unbiased upon us all. The divine love offers harmony and order despite its infinite freedom (the strengthening precise pattern of the tunnel grid).
Deep is Love
The composition of the figures on the tunnel of love is spiral and advancing into the depth. This is in fact, a symbol to the stages of the process of the spiritual purification of the mind. At first, you stand outside of the tunnel, but proximate to it, then you are captured by your inner wisdom and start walking on the spiritual path. The more you progress on the path that much love you start experiencing and the closer you get to its true source.
Attachment
The nature of attachment
Attachment chooses certain objects (in this case people) among many equal ones and which could have been the objects of our love as well, hadn’t we been so conditioned by cultural, emotional, intellectual and spiritual perceptions, which cause us to judge and reject everything that exceeds them. We cannot see the reality as it is, meaning the being of our objects of attachment completely identical to those around them. As a result we intensify the value of these certain chosen objects in our minds and believe them to carry some sort of an illusionary promise which supposedly could not be fulfilled by any other object.
The object of attachment
That is why only the specific subject of attachment shelters under the wing of that fake security. This is why he is so unique…
But is he, indeed? Do the clothes make the man? The clothes, as in our case, are the most superficial cover of man, symbolizing the shallowness of the subjective perception in regards to the objective one, and the former’s tendency to be deceived by different external gestures and thus to attribute essence, content and value to them which necessarily comply with the commonly accepted interpretation of these gestures, as well as the blindness in regards of having such a superficial perception.
The formative free-style to create the “look” of the suit, is in fact that “unique style” which anyone has. In this case, that restrained-wild towards the beasty-elegant, but with a deeply sensitive, sharp and cynical edge that melts-like-slippery-rubber kind of style. That’s probably me, also…
Perception through the eyes of attachment
Attachment perceives its subject as unique for it reflects its own inclination to individualism, but all the other subjects (in this case people) surrounding it are equally irrelevant and unattractive. However, uniqueness is within and it does manifest – we just can’t see it (the different signs on the torsos).
Of course, cracks in the experience of attachment (blue pentagram) will occur and allow the piercing flashes of pure love. After all, this is the very purpose of any spiritual exertion – to learn how to love, truly. So also, Evil (the red downward-pointing pentagram in the Love scene insinuates the Sigil of Baphomet may always interrupt our spiritual exertion by trying to trip us into stopping our practice.
Shallow is attachment
In general, I was trying to depict attachment as shallow (no perspective of depth) vapid and empty of real essence (the hollow caption).
The shallower we ascend towards the surface of the mind (the edge of the tunnel) the farther we get from the divine love and the more identified we become with the worldly love, hence attachment, which is experienced by most beings – that which is based on “survival instincts”, hence sexual passion and fear of loneliness and is conditioned by the fulfillment of certain terms; all of which narrow it down to reflect only the interests of its possessors (the increasingly vague and translucent depiction of the word ‘Love’).
Brass tacks
How much would we really love our wives, husbands or children if they would successively shatter all the hopes we have pinned on them, and gradually become all that which we hate and despise in ourselves? Would we at all?
