The Last Battle

[Aaron]

I think I can offer a real-world example of "focused love" as opposed to "love with conditions, restrictions, or attachment to outcome."

I was sitting in the basement of the building that my mate works in, waiting for her to get dressed in the locker room so that we could walk home together. She works in a hospice. Upstairs, I could hear some unsettling noise from a patient she had told me about before. This patient is completely paralyzed, unable to do anything except blink her eyes. She has excessive mucous build-up in her throat and nose which constantly drains down into her windpipe, causing her to choke and suffocate. It periodically needs to be suctioned out with a medical device.

I was waiting there, and I heard her coughing and choking, knowing that she was completely helpless while suffocation bared down upon her. And in that moment, I chose to send focused love to her. It was more like a focusing of an uncontrollable wave of compassion that arose within me. But there was still no attachment to any sort of outcome of this sending.

My point in this is that there are certainly situations where sending focused love is appropriate, as long as there are no lower ray issues causing attachments or conditions to that love.

Thank you, Monica for making that distinction!