If you want to know why there's a Love that cannot lie.
Love is strong, it only cares for joyful giving.
If we try, we shall see.
In this bliss we cannot feel fear or dread.
We stop existing and start living
(Michael Jackson - Heal the World)
The above passage is a portion of "Heal the World" lyrics, which is the first song that I admired from Michael Jackson when I was a teenager. As I listened to the song again, and reflected on the lyrics, the above portion really struck me as it has a very profound meaning that I doubt many people have realised it.
First of all, it speaks about the honesty of Love, the strong feeling that only cares for joyful giving without expecting nothing back in return. This is exactly an Unconditional Love, that Buddhists often term it as Loving-Kindness (Metta). If you think that you have Love for someone, somebody, something, or anything ... please check if your Love falls into this category. If the feeling you experience does not only care for "joyful giving", in other words you still expect something back in return, then it is not an unconditional love spoken in this lyrics. In other words, your love is still conditional.
The unconditional love is the kind of love that truly liberates us ... truly liberates us from the concern for "I, me, mine".... since it only cares for "joyful giving". The more we give, the higher the joy is. That's why the lyrics states that "in this bliss [of joyful giving], we cannot feel fear or dread". There's no space for those negative feelings in unconditional love.
The ceasing of the concern for "I, me, and mine" really implies "we stop existing". Because we no longer concern only for "ourselves", but we concern for the happiness of everyone, of others, of all beings ... we no longer have a boundary between "me" and "others" which is called "self (ego)". What left is only "us", not "me and you". In this way, we really "stop existing and start living" . We start living a better world ... a peaceful world ... and a happy world ... where all our actions are filled with joy and care for the happiness of all of us.
While the world is in the midst of remembering Michael Jackson, for his personality or his contribution to the world, let us take this opportunity to also remember and reflect this message of humanity in this song. May all of us be happy ... may all of us truly live with joy, and may all the "ego/self" that creates boundaries among all beings stop existing. Let's heal the world, by first freeing us from the "self" and by cultivating the True unconditional love within us. Peace and happiness with us.
With Loving-Kindness,
Luis
