A Heart Of Warmth Is Not Something Impossible — by Tenzin Palmo

[Welles]

What does love mean? In the West, we mistake the meaning of love; we bandy the word around all the time, from “I love ice-cream” to “I love God”. But we mistake love for desire, for greed, for lust, and for attachment. We think that to love something or someone means to hold on very tightly and to think of it as “mine”. And because of this grasping mind, we suffer very much. We suffer from the fear that we will lose what we desire, and we suffer from grief when we do lose. Think about that. We usually mistake attachment for love. But attachment is not love. Attachment is grasping, attachment is clinging. And this is the root cause of our being in this state of suffering.

A Heart Of Warmth Is Not Something Impossible — by Tenzin Palmo

http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?op=audio&tid=2339

[Sandy]

Thank you Welles. That's one I need to read every morning when I get up.

Sandy

[peacockplume]

Perhaps that's where the saying..."go with the flow" came from...

Thanks for the link Welles,,,

it should be part of Grade One classes...

One part reminded me of my mother....when he told his mother he was going to India, and her reply...
when I used to ask my mother what I should do, she would say,,whatever makes you happy...

pp