Love - Buddhist and Bible metro: I have had a hard time getting to where I need to be. Instead of being upset at what has happened to me, I need to go back to being that person I want to be. These two passages are key:
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The definition of love in Buddhism is: wanting others to be happy.
This love is unconditional and it requires a lot of courage and acceptance (including self-acceptance).
The "near enemy" of love, or a quality which appears similar, but is more an opposite is: conditional love (selfish love, see also the page on attachment).
The opposite is wanting others to be unhappy: anger, hatred.
A result which one needs to avoid is: attachment.
This definition means that '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-tachment and the unselfish interest in others' welfare.
http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/immeasurables_love_compassion_equanimity_rejoicing.html
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[li"> Corinthians 13:1-13 (English-NIV)
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. [/li">
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Re: Love - Buddhist and Bible whythisnow: Read :
"Living Christ , Living Buddha"
Re: Love - Buddhist and Bible metro: Thanks Fido. I'll look into into it.
Re: Love - Buddhist and Bible metro: My Mom's response to this was a prayer...
Here is my Favorite Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace!
Where there is hatred - let me sow love
Where there is injury - pardon
Where there is doubt - faith
Where there is despair - hope
Where there is darkness - light
Where there is sadness - joy
O Devine Maker, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled - as to console
To be loved - as to love
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It is in giving - that we receive
It is in pardoning - that we are pardoned
It is in dying - that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
