Sufi-Buddhist Interfaith Dialogue: A Borderless World Sufi Rumi wrote thus : Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you built against it. Rumi Sufi path to God is the love of God and love of neighbor. From the perspective of Buddhist thought, the love of God (Truth; al-Haqiqah), is the love of Buddha (Truth; Dharma); the love of neighbor is great compassion for all sentient beings. Love of God in Monotheism and great compassion in Buddhism are not sentient or carnal love. The sentient or carnal love is selfish love between two or more individuals. Theist divine love of neighbor or great compassion for all sentient beings is the unconditional love for all sentient beings because all sentient beings belong to the same family of cosmic Self or Family. Buddhist great compassion is also rooted in the love arisen from the primordial interconnected communion of all sentient beings as one singular human family of cosmic Self. Primordially, there are no barriers between all sentient beings.The border lines between all beings are imaginatively drawn or mentally fabricated by ordinary spiritually sleeping worldlings because they can not think outside of box as they are living inside a closed box. When a person sees a barrier between self and other owing to the dualistic worldview, the flow of unconditional love or giving for others is mentally blocked. Love is not expressed when a dualistically visioned observer always builds a borderline between self and other. Duality view obstructs the flow of the unconditioned love. The insight into non-duality of an inherent borderless world arouses the unconditioned love or great compassion among human beings. The false world view of duality fabricates the imaginary border between the perceiver and the perceived; between the subject and the object ; between self and other generally. Imaginary boundary between self and other prevents the natural flow of the unconditional love (Monotheist divine love ; Buddhist great compassion). On the other hand, the right worldview of non-duality evapourates the imaginary border between self and other. The common ground of all world faith is the communal Truth of perennial wisdom of Non-duality. Non-duality is the ultimate reality of a borderless world in which all lives and communities are necessarily interconnected as one single family of cosmic Self of Interbeing. Therefore, Sufi Rumi proposes that in order to love others unconditionally, the man-made obstructing border between self and other must be removed through insightful wisdom of seeing the borderless world as it really is. Non-dual wisdom of non-discrimination removes all barriers to love others unconditionally. What are the barriers to be eliminated from the human consciousness? The barriers are various and many . They primary barrier is the notion of duality . This primary barrier of duality give rise to its many conventional or relative notions of secondary barriers, such as notions of self or ego, separation, fragmentation, alienation, self -centredness, monopoly, autonomy, analysis, separate parts, disconnection, independence, self-containment , manyness, diversity, multiplicity , polar opposites and so forth. Imaginary barriers obstruct love to give unconditionally ; the removal of barriers releases love to give unconditionally.
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