I just read your post about unconditional love. While I see myself getting there, I am confused about people who rape/ abuse children and animals, murderers and the like. How does one not judge them? How does one love them? How do I see them as "me"?
The one spirit is pervading in all. The same consciousness is present in minerals, plants, animals and all human beings. The expression of consciousness varies depending on the class of object and the quality of the mind. The mind is like the blinds in a room (the individual) that shuts off different amount of light from the same sun (consciousness/spirit). Depending on the size of the blinds, there is more or less darkness in the room.
To see unity is to see what all of us share in common, that we are all children of God, and that everything manifest is a but different expression of the same source. Darkness being the absence of light, is not a real thing. No individual is doomed to be eternally "dark". We are all capable of spiritual transformation. As they say, every saint had a past, and every sinner has a future.
History is full of examples of "sinners" such as Anguli Mala and Ratnakara (Valmiki) becoming saints, and this type of radical transformation continues on to this day. Adyashanti speaks of some inmates that he met in prison over the last few years, many of whom have been imprisoned for life, which means they have committed a number of serious crimes like the ones you suggested. One of these inmates was kept in solitary confinement for many years, at which time he had ample time to reflect upon his life and "see" the falsity of the bitterness and anger that he had towards all. In an interview he said "I will never get out of these four walls, yet two years back I became free". The inmate had gained enlightenment within the prison walls.
With Love,
Sudhir
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