If you cannot understand, you cannot love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Training is needed in order to love properly and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice deep looking directed toward the person you love. Loving-kindness is not only the desire to make someone happy, to bring joy to a beloved person it is the ability to bring joy and happiness to the person you love, because even if your intention is to love this person, your love might make him or her suffer. The first is maitri, which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence. Looking at human love through the lens of Buddhist teaching, he breaks it down into four aspects: loving-kindness, compassion, joy and freedom and uses his direct and simple style to advise us how to put these elements to work in our own lives.Īccording to Buddhism, there are four elements of true love. What are the most basic elements of love and how can we manifest them in our lives and our relationships? This is the question that Thich Nhat Hanh tackles in his short book, ‘True Love’.
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