Love and Motivation

YIN DOLMAH

LOVE AND MOTIVATION

Elektra is a great friend I have known for a few years.

She studies the universe as a scientist at a space observatory.

One day, while visiting with me, Elektra began to explain

the relationship which exists between the sun and the earth.

Not just the earth, but all the other planets.

Elektra said to me as she showed me a picture of the solar

system. She said:

Yin, look at this beautiful picture of the solar system.

Now, assume for a second you were a little child looking out

your window and you saw this image at night. Assume

nothing else was visible in the darkness of night except this

image glowing in the horizon.

What is the immediate thing that comes to mind? The first

thing you probably think about is oh that small blue ball

called earth must be the favorite of them all.

YIN DOLMAH

I see a hot glowing ball in the center, ostensibly, the leader

of the group. I see all other balls moving around the big red

ball. All the balls look rugged and sickly. They produce

nothing, for the boss must not care for them. Except that little

blue ball. That ball must be getting all the love the other balls

are denied. Look how beautiful and sparkly and full of life

that blue ball is.

You are thinking this to yourself because you are not aware

of a few things.

What are you not aware of Yin? As the little child staring out

of your window, you are oblivious of the fact that the

‘beautiful blue ball’ which is sparkly, full of life and

beaming with joy has been dealt a very heavy hand by the

boss.

The big boss in the center does not give the blue ball any

more favors than the other gloomy and dead balls.

Let me explain further.

The big boss in the center spews out the most dangerous

radiations; powerful enough to obliterate the beautiful blue

ball very quickly.

What does the blue ball do? It gently uses its magnetism to

ward off the toxic radiations, so they do not harm her or the

loved ones within her. The boss in the center burns with

unimaginable heat and fury. Heat, capable of burning the

beautiful blue ball into oblivion. What does the beautiful

blue ball do?

First, she chooses the right distance to be away from the

toxic heat of the hot boss. She then goes the extra mile of

circulating around the hot boss in a manner that affords her

a 360-degree view of the boss so she better understands his

unusual outbursts.

While circulating around the hot boss, she also spins herself

gently, so she is neither too hot, nor too cold.

YIN DOLMAH

Just perfect. Her strategy works. She beams with beauty. She

glows with joy. Her existence is full

of life.

She is the envy of all who see her.

Those who do not know the heavy hand she has been dealt

by the boss, continue to gossip regarding how she is the

favorite of the boss.

Some even say she sleeps with the boss, the reason she has

all good things coming to her.

Let them talk. They have no clue what the truth is. Let them

continue to wallow in their gloom and doom while the

beautiful crystal glows through time and space.”

Elektra went on to explain the relationship between the

beautiful blue crystal and the red-hot boss in the center as an

example of how to love a difficult-to-love person while not

destroying yourself.

Elektra explained that love should never destroy the one who

claims to be displaying love. She said, “if the actions which

constitute your display of love towards the one you claim to

love, only contribute to that person’s delinquency, or worse,

destroys you the giver of the love, then let it be known to you

that what you are practicing is everything else but love.”

Elektra did not stop there. She shifted gears to explain a few

more things. She said

“Yin, we sit in a room full of light. Do you know how that

light is produced?” I naively answered, “yes, it is produced

by turning on the switch.”

My answer gave Elektra an uncontrollable laugh. She

laughed so hard she had to run to the bathroom.

When she returned from the bathroom, she continued by

saying “that was a good one Yin.”

YIN DOLMAH

I think she was giving me more credit than I deserved. She

was acting as though I deliberately answered her question so

foolishly in order to elicit a good laugh from her. That was

not the case. That was my honest answer.

Elektra continued, “The light we see is obviously not

produced from turning on the light switch located on the

wall.

The light which luminates this room is produced when

electrons in the outer orbit of an atom deexcite from an

excited state.

As the outer electrons deexcite, they emit radiation which is

known as visible light. We call it visible light because for

lack of a better word, it is visible. Not exactly, but they

reflect colors and textures that allow us to see.

The same atom also has electrons in the inner orbit. The

electrons in the inner orbit also get excited and deexcited just

as the electrons in the outer orbits do.

But there is a difference. The inner electrons do not emit

visible light when they deexcite. They emit something

much more powerful and a lot more difficult to stop than

visible light.

They emit X-rays.

X-rays are not visible to the human eye but travel a lot farther

than visible light. You can stop visible light with a piece of

paper.

Good luck trying to stop x-rays with the same piece of paper.

Why am I talking to you about atoms and electrons Yin?

The reason I do so is because of the strong correlation

between radiation emitted by outer electrons, inner

electrons, and the way we behave as human beings when it

comes to matters of love and motivation.

YIN DOLMAH

Similar to radiation emitted by outer electrons, love and

motivation which are not deep rooted can easily be stopped

by the least setback.

Shallow rooted love and motivation enjoy making public

spectacles for the entire world to see.

Just like visible light, they display themselves with much

noise and fanfare, and yet, all it takes is a piece of paper to

stop all that glow and shine. The noise.

In the same manner, deep rooted love and motivation, just

like the radiation emitted by electrons in the inner orbit, are

hard to see.

As a matter of fact, they are seldom seen.

But just like X-rays, they go on, and on, and on, and on ad

infinitum. They are unstoppable.”