"It's not about avoiding sin, it's about embracing love." 2:15 mantra, 6:45 contemplation.

It's not about avoiding sin, it's about embracing love.  If you willfully and knowingly sin, then your acts are decidedly contrary to love.  My choosing then to embrace love, a willful and knowing act,  for the sake of love, then you will not be willfully and knowingly sin.  So, then the point is not to not sin, but to love.  If you sin without willfully and knowingly do it, then it is a frailty over which you have no control.  The more you embrace love, the less propensity you will have for sin.  Avoiding sin does not bring happiness.  There is no motivation for it other than it being the antithesis of love.  Sin comes from trying to protect ourselves, ease the sufferings that are on our soul.  The virtuous values of well-being, easing of burdens, growing, accepting for ourselves can be sought through sin. But, it will lead to suffering, disharmony with the universe, erosion of our ease and peace with the universe. These virtues flow from loving, and are not sources of love.  You do not do them to be loving, you do them when you love.  Doing them before love may help one know what the fruit of love feels like and realize the wonderfulness of love and thereby motivate them to love, but they are not love themselves.  They are the result of love.  Love does not flow from virtuous action.   Virtuous action flows from love, though virtuous action can teach oneself the value of love.