“A dharma reading,” of a “Higher Power” of love. The song is explored through a Buddha Dharma lens.
A Dharma Reflection on “Higher Love”
The longing for a higher love
The song’s central plea — “Bring me a higher love” — mirrors a deeply human search for meaning. In dharma terms, this is the yearning for awakening, for a love that isn’t dependent on conditions, outcomes, or other people. It’s the pull toward bodhicitta, the awakened heart.
This “higher love” isn’t something delivered from outside. It’s the recognition of the innate goodness already present within you.
❤️
Seeing suffering clearly
Lines about the world looking bleak and unfair echo the First Noble Truth: there is suffering, and we feel it everywhere.
But the song doesn’t stop there. It acknowledges confusion — “We walk blind and we try to see” — which is the classic Buddha Dharma description of ignorance, the root of suffering. The practice is learning to see clearly, without illusion.
❤️
The courage to stay open
The song speaks of standing alone, facing fear, and still yearning. That’s the heart of practice: staying open even when the world feels harsh.
In Buddha Dharma, this is shenpa — the moment we want to contract — and the choice to soften instead.
❤️
Rising above
The line about rising above on a higher love points to transcendence, not as escape but as transformation. In dharma, this is the shift from ego-driven desire to compassionate awareness.
You don’t rise above by leaving the world behind. You rise above by meeting it with a wiser heart.
❤️
The fire within
When the song speaks of lighting the night with one’s soul on fire, it evokes inner luminosity — the natural radiance of mind. This is the same fire that fuels practice, devotion, and compassion.
It’s not about waiting for love to arrive. It’s about recognizing the love that is already the nature of mind.
❤️
A Dharma Summary
- The “higher love” is awakened awareness.
- The suffering described is the human condition the Buddha taught about.
- The yearning is the call toward liberation.
- The rising above is the movement from ego to compassion.
- The fire is the innate clarity and warmth of your own mind.
❤️
The following song is a teaching on awakening, compassion, and inner clarity.
✨ A Higher Love: A Dharma Poem ✨
Think deeply now — there’s more to see,
A love beyond a “you” and “me.”
Not grasped in stars or skies above,
But found within: a boundless love.
The world feels heavy, worn, unfair,
We stumble lost in fog‑thick air.
Yet still the heart, though bruised and blind,
Keeps reaching for a clearer mind.
Bring forth a higher love,
A truth we’re worthy of.
A love that’s wide and free,
Awake in you and me.
The wheel keeps turning, day by day,
We stand alone along the way.
But yearning calls — a quiet plea —
For someone who can truly see.
Though shadows stretch across the land,
Walking the path with trembling hand.
Still wisdom whispers, soft but strong:
This light you have inside all along.”
Bring forth a higher love,
The kind all beings dream of.
A love that does not cling,
A heart that knows each thing.
Wait with patience, calm and clear,
No step is lost, no path severe.
Until that dawn breaks overhead,
Chant compassion’s words instead.
Light the night with mindful fire,
A flame that’s fed by purity beyond desire
To free all hearts from fear and pain,
And see the world made whole again.
Let kindness rise and overflow,
Let wisdom guide the way we go.
Let every breath remind us how
Awakening begins in the here and now.
Bring forth a higher love,
A truth we’re made up of.
A love that lifts us higher,
A mind that won’t expire.
A higher love is here —
In every doubt and fear.
In every step we take,
The path begins to wake.
❤️
IN-MINDFUL LIVING 