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Practical Philosophy
Part 3 Details
Week 1: What is love, how is it gained and how is it lost? Is love universal or limited? Everyone has pure love within their nature. Seeing beyond the apparent. The practice of stillness.
Week 2. Pure love expressed through the creation. The effect of pure love being governed by wisdom, attachment or delusion. Discerning the truth from the fruit of actions. The nature of love in overcoming all limits.
Week 3. The expansion and strengthening of pure love. Love is the natural in-between. Those things which cover the natural flow of love. Constancy.
Week 4. What is it that is loved? The transient and the changeable. Directing love to the true essence. The absence of love and its effect. The nature and effect of gratitude.
Week 5. Love thy neighbour as thyself. The transformative effect of love. The subtle realm and its importance.
Week 6. Review of the course so far. Consideration of the subtle realm of mind. Connecting the mind with the senses. Decisions based on true principle. Open-heartedness.
Week 7. Love as the motive force. The causes of duality and hostility. The unity of knowledge and love.
Week 8. The difference between sacrificial and sentimental love. Lack of love and giving. The difference between human and divine love. The importance of stillness in reaching deeper levels.
Week 9. The relationship between love and law. The commandment to love one another. Freedom of law and love together.
Week 10. Love and work. Constancy between words and action.
Week 11. Love guided by wisdom.
Week 12. Review of the term’s work.