The way of love is repeated over and over again and is an obvious universal principal that guides us in our life-experiences. Gentle Teaching has embraced this value as a transcendental belief that is at the heart of the human condition and is the foundation for belief systems. As we are involved in the on-going definition of this value, we are in the moment-to-moment process of definition of its meaning.

 

This can be a sweet challenge since many of us have been raised in individualistic cultures that almost force us to only render that which is deserved. This makes giving unconditional love quite difficult. Yet, we are saying that love cannot be contingent; it must be unconditional. This is perhaps Gentle Teaching’s most difficult challenge, especially for those of us who have grown up in the industrialized world in which everything has to be earned and in which behaviorism has quite successfully packaged a world based on “If you do this, you receive this.” Gentle Teaching is not a world of contingency; it is a world of the possibility of love and its healing power.