Buddhist Words of REAL LOVE

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http://www.hippy.com/php/article-292.htmlBuddhist Words of REAL LOVE“If the LOVE within your mind is lost

and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge

or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion

will ensue.â€

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama from “The Little Book of Buddhism†-

The “near enemy†of LOVE, or a quality, which appears similar, but is more an opposite is: conditional love (selfish love).

“LOVE†in Buddhism refers to something quite different from the

ordinary term of love which is usually about attachment, more or less

successful relationships and sex; all of which are rarely without

self-interest. Instead, in Buddhism it refers to de-attachment and the

unselfish interest in others' welfare.

How Buddhism presents and develops its concept of “LOVE†or Respect and Concern for ALL that lives…

The Buddha preached and maintained that ALL life in the Universe

is a product of natural evolution, EACH LITTLE THING therein in the

diverse eco-systems possessing its own Right to Exist. This thinking

blossomed out in Buddhism's greatest contribution to mankind, namely

the concept of mettà [skt. maitrã ] or UNIVERSAL LOVING KINDNESS. One

LOVES EVERY OTHER THING IN THE UNIVERSE in a direct relationship of one

to another, without a mediator or creator. We are, after all, in the

world we live in, a part of a complete network. In spite of our

differences, we are integrated into a WHOLE and each one of us LOVES to

be LOVED. Therefore harmony and healthy relationships of one to another

are considered a must, which necessarily leads to a smooth running

order in the Universe.

In “LOVEâ€, ALL have to become EQUAL, and where Honest Equality

prevails LOVE MUST KNOW NO BARRIERS, as known or unknown, friendly or

otherwise. Not even as I and another. The amount of LOVE one is

required to give to others cannot in any way be less than what one

wishes and expects others to bestow upon oneself.

UNIVERSAL LOVING KINDNESS [or UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE of FRIENDSHIP

with EVERYTHING THAT LIVES] practiced in this manner contributes to the

much-needed Buddhist virtue of ego-destruction or ridding oneself of

the menacing notion of I, Me, Mine.

Let NONE in the world we live in suffer for want of LOVE. And let

NONE suffer because we do not TRULY practice LOVE towards ALL that

live, like ourselves. Let us not forget our callous disrespect for the

lives of other beings and the pain we thereby bring upon them.

How would Buddha LOVE? By seeing EVERY SINGLE BEING, human and

otherwise, as fundamentally like himself, and thus able to treat them

and LOVE them in the way he would be treated. We call this INFINITELY

BENEVOLENT, SELFLESS LOVE, Bodhicitta or the Awakened Heart, the Very

Spirit of Enlightenment.

When will that ever be,

When I can compare All infinite components of which I am made,

Those within me, with those without,

Like trees and grass and creepers that trail?

Seeing them ALL EQUAL, well and true!

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