Wednesday, January 18, 2012

LOVE

Love has many names
The most popular kind of love is "falling in love", the infatuation, the physical attraction
songs, poem, pictures, drama, statue were created for it
Beyond this attraction, it goes deeper to intimacy
where the love is based on intimacy and trust
Parents who love their children, spouse, best friends
However, this kind of love is attachment based
People who sacrifice themselves and do crazy things for the people they they love

The second kind of love is the detachment kind of love
This is the kind of love that was talked about in spiritual tradition
We can't love somebody that we are attached to
we can't love if we are not free
This is the kind of love that is free and patient in the Bible
This love is freely given and received
This love is given from happiness from being free
This love is based on compassion that everybody wants to be happy and wants to avoid suffering
This is the love understood by the mystics.

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