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Love VS Attachment

What is love and what is attachment? Many times, people misunderstand love. They think that holding on to someone is love. Jealousy, neediness and possession are often seen and accepted as proof of love. They think that fighting for love is love. They think that falling love is love. But these forms of love often have more to do with attachment than love. We are love; it is our natural state. However, normally we are too distracted by the ego to experience that. In Buddhist philosophy there are four elements − the four immeasurable thoughts: Loving-kindness (Pāli: mettā) − the wish that all sentient beings, without any exception, be happy.Compassion…

Read more about the article February 14th St. Valentine’s Day some advice for falling in love

February 14th St. Valentine’s Day some advice for falling in love

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.” William Shakespeare We humans desire this “madness” like nothing else. It is probable we will all fall in love at some time in our lives. We can all remember our first “true love” whether that was at junior school, high school or university. The deliciousness of it, the new all-consuming sensations, the euphoria, pain, happiness, stress, desire, awe, connection and sometimes all at the…