Four Key Elements Of “True Love” According To The Teaching of The Buddha

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Four Key Elements Of “True Love” According To The Teaching of The Buddha

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What is love? What is ‘true’ love? Can it even be defined? Is it even dependant on being in a relationship with someone? Our idea of what true love is today may comes from a fairytale, movie, or reality TV show, and the definition has likely changed many times. But we all have certain conditions attached to our idea of what love is, or some sort of criteria drawn up for what our ‘perfect match’ would look like, and I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that. Perhaps true love is much more simple than popular culture would have us believe. As Thich Nhat Hanh (a Vietnamese Buddhist Monk) explains below, if there is love/kindness, compassion, joy, and inclusiveness, according to Buddhist teaching, you are experiencing true love. It’s pretty simple. True love doesn’t necessarily have to be something magical that sprung out of a fairy tale, although if that’s the case there’s nothing wrong with that either.

The main points taken from the video are that love and kindness have the power to create happiness.
So here's the video...

Four Key Elements Of “True Love” According To The Teaching of The Buddha

https://youtu.be/p8IMoN_9TyA


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Re: Four Key Elements Of “True Love” According To The Teaching of The Buddha

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Thank you, Welles. What a lovely gentle message given by a very peaceful master of love.

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