Love .VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

The present society has not only material abundance, but also progressive intellectuals, outstanding writers, talented speakers, philosophers, psychologists, scientists, true mentors, talented poets and very talented leaders.

Even so, the world currently has no real peace and joy. Some things are still lacking, like love and goodwill in each person's heart.

Matter created by man, by themselves, can not bring lasting happiness and peace to man. Peace must be created righteous in one's soul before it can bring peace to others and to society as a whole. In order to attain peace, the most practical way is to practice following the advice of the masters.

In order to cultivate love, we must first forge the noble principles of nonviolence and be ready to resist selfishness, and at the same time show others the correct path by which they are we are following. Struggling here does not mean fighting with this physical body, because a man's perversion is not in the body but in the soul. Nonviolence is a far more powerful weapon than violent retaliation in combating evil. For the nature of retaliation aggravates immorality.

To gain love, each of us needs to let go of selfishness. Much of human love is selfish. The wife loves her husband, but actually hidden within that love is the wife's affection for herself. Parents love their children because they love themselves. People worship God out of self-care. We love others because we want others to love us.

Man should learn to love with unselfish love in order to maintain true peace and to save himself. Suicide destroys the body, too, selfishness hinders spiritual progress. Love according to Buddhism is not a mere emotion, nor is it selfish. It is the love manifested from the pure inner side after having eliminated all the inner hatred, jealousy, brutality, hostility and resentment. According to the Buddha, kindness, or love is the most effective method to maintain peace of mind and to wash away contaminated hearts.

Love is a word used to describe a very wide range of emotions in human life. In fact, emphasizing the sexual desire for a person of the opposite sex has undervalued emotions in friendly relationships with others. According to Buddhism, there are many types of emotions. All of these are called by the common noun, love. First of all, selfish love and unselfish love. A person with selfish love is only interested in how happy others make us, but not at all about the wishes or feelings of the other person. Jealousy is always a sign of selfish love. Unselfish love is the love one gives to another because of the good things about that person - parents love their children very much. People often feel a mix of selfish love and unselfish love in relationships. For example, while parents make great sacrifices for their children, they often expect something in return.

 

Another kind of love, contrary to the close relationship mentioned above, is brotherhood and friendship. To a certain extent, this kind of affection is also seen as selfish love, because it is limited to a few individual people and does not cover everyone. In another category, we have sex, where lovers are bound together by physical attraction. This is fully exploited by modern entertainment, and it can affect anything from the simple adolescent infatuation, to the most complicated of relationships between people. adults together.

Great love, or kindness, is a sentiment on a higher level than the feelings above. This boundless love is the noble virtue that enlightened beings have shown. For example, Shakyamuni Buddha, he resolved to renounce the throne, leave family and abandon ordinary pleasures to find the truth in order to save sentient beings from suffering. In order to attain enlightenment, he had to fight with countless external ghosts and struggles with thousands of difficulties and hardships. If it was an ordinary being, it would have collapsed, but the Buddha would not. That is why the Buddha is called the Great Compassionate One. The Buddha's immense love is not only for humans but also extends to all living beings. This is not an emotion or selfish love, but a love without borders, regardless. Unlike other emotions, this great love will never be terminated by disappointment or boredom, for it does not expect any reciprocity. It makes people more happy and satisfied. Those who practice loving kindness will also practice joy and equanimity, and they will reach the state of transcendence.

In the book The ancient way of the Buddha, Piyadassi said: Love is a positive force. Every action of a loving person is an act of immaculate mind in order to help, support and motivate to make everyone's life more comfortable, calm and transform worries. Europe is invading their soul and can enjoy lasting happiness.

The way to nurture love, to let love grow is through thinking deeply about the evils of jealousy, the benefits of non-jealousy, and through reflection on reality, about karma.

Indeed, no one likes hatred. Hatred is a bad form of affection, it sinks us deeper and deeper into darkness, making us less lucid. Hatred binds people, and loves makes people peaceful. Hatred leads to torment, and love brings peace.

Hatred makes people lose their temper, love makes people calm. Hatred leads to division, and love brings harmony. Hatred is rough, love is tender. Hatred is to oppose, to love helps. Hatred has negative effects, and love brings many such benefits, so let us try to nurture our love to grow stronger.

In the Sutta of Compassion, the Buddha explained the nature of love in Buddhism as "Like a mother protecting her only child in the most critical moment of life. However, let him cultivate. train boundless love towards all beings, let the ideas of love without borders spread throughout the world, above, below, and all four directions, not at all. prevention, absence of hatred and absolutely no hostility ". END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.8/9/2020.