Jesus said: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Buddha said: “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

も 度 も 何 度 も “Nandomonandomo”, it’s called in Japanese! Yeoleo beon yeoleo beon 번 번 여러 번 it’s called in Korean. . In English we say: “Here we go again!” Yes, “again and again” we celebrate Christmas, with and without those we love.

Now, wait a minute, completely without those we love? Maybe, but here comes the Christmas message from Psychological Universe for this year:

We celebrate the newborn baby. We celebrate you!

For Christians, the newborn is Jesus. For Muslims, it may be Muhammad as a child. The Jews are still waiting for their Messiah, a special man who will liberate the Jewish people from oppression, but who is not a divine figure. Prince Gautama Siddhartha also called Buddha had everything as a child, and thus had as much loved, also the strength and love to leave the family castle to meet all the suffering of the world. He sat down under the Bodhi tree, where he rediscovered, the eternal doctrine, (Dharma) 400 years before our era.

At Christmas we celebrate Jesus.

Why then talk about central figures in other religions? Then I think they all have something in common related to concepts such as acceptance, recognition, love, and kindness towards others. Kindness, kindness, and love, as you show it to a small child. ( see Don’t fuck with God’s own Child once more!)

Buddha said, “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

It may seem that in our western world and parts of Asia there is an enormous amount of self-love. Too much of it simply. People buy and buy, and spend a lot of time cultivating themselves. There is a lot of work to get the best exams and jobs, get a perfect body, a lot of effort to get straightened noses, filled lips with silicone, lip fill, Botox, the latest fashion in clothing shoes and bags.

However, this is usually motivated by the opposite. Not feeling good enough? Or to assure the world that you are worth loving.

https://youtu.be/K4hVB4Q6KkI (Poor Thai children singing X-mass carol)

To be loved for who you are without having produced anything.

For me, the main message of Christmas is that the little child that we carry with us in our so-called “annual rings” and experiences, – we should enjoy it, yes, rejoice, and give that child love. No matter what this little girl or boy has done or produced later in life. It is an existential miracle to be born in this universe: Einstein put it this way: A human being is part of a whole called by us, “Universe”.

And right here lies the symbolic message of Christmas: We celebrate the newborn, open, sentient, longing child, – longing for our love. And this love is not superficial. There is a deep respect for the individual we are set to represent and manage when we are born.

A new inner birth and recognition:

It is this child inside you that you shall try to extend a hand to at Christmas. You should say – “Oh yes, I see you now, and I appreciate you, will take care of you, and love you every day.

At Christmas, we give each other presents. It is supposed to be an expression of love, gratitude, and care. But the very best gift you can give yourself is beginning to accept yourself as you are, with all your strengths, vulnerabilities and your limitations, faults, and shortcomings.

Do not just accept. You should even try to learn to love yourself, take the little girl or boy in your hand or on your lap and say: “The two of us should always be a team. I may have forgotten you in all the struggle, but this Christmas I will celebrate you, almost as we celebrate the Child Jesus who was born in Bethlehem. “

“But not just at Christmas. I will continue to encourage and love you. Then it will also be even easier to recognize and accept others. Even love them with all of me. (see article: Self-love, – sickening or healthy?)

To the Jews, it seems that this love that will set them free through a Messiah is far in the future.”

Christians can certainly learn a lot from Judaism and Islam. But if there is one thing the two religions and Christianity can learn from Jesus, it must be that self-love does not have to be selfish! On the contrary! The love of your neighbor that follows from a strong existential self-love, is the way to peace both in your own mind and body, and in the world.

Psychological Universe will have this as its main Christmas message this year! Then even if you must celebrate alone, you are not completely alone and lonesome, you have your inner child to celebrate with.

Bless You, All!