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When we hear the word "charity" we think of love towards our neighbour, love made visible as in service. We hear the word everyday; we use it and we may also practise it in different forms. But what does charity really mean?

According to the definition of charity as love towards the neighbour we need to find out first what loving means to us at this very moment.

We are not interested in ideas about love or wish to repeat what we have heard or read about it. The word is so loaded and corrupted that we often don't feel comfortable using it. So let us wash away all the definitions and concepts that have been imposed on us by the outer world. The answer lies deep within us. Love is the essence of what and who we are. This strange flower blooms in the stillness of the mind, but we run around searching for it in the outer world.

If we do not come upon this source, this well of love, within us and start to draw the living force out of its abundance — if we are not filled with it — the world will continue to stumble along. The task is to consciously let it stream through us unto everyone we come in touch with. We know intellectually that the unity of mankind is essential and that love is the only way to heal the world: but we don't know what love really is, and therefore we cannot put it into action.

The nature of love is always to reach beyond self. It is not satisfied with loving self, but it strives to love others and be united to others. Love acknowledges the differences between people, but is also the integrating force that overcomes separation. You feel another person's joy as joy in yourself. It does NOT mean feeling one's own joy in someone else. That is selfishness, loving oneself; the former is loving the neighbour. These two kinds of love are exact opposites. Both do form a bond, and it does not look as though loving oneself in someone else divides. However, it does separate — so much so that someone who has been loved in this way often later comes to respond with hatred. In fact, this bond gradually dissolves of its own accord.

We see therefore how what people often take for love is in fact only using the other to compensate for one's own lack of inner security, whether expressed as dependency, vanity, or desire for personal aggrandizement.

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