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Why is it called love?
chanratt
Veteran
By 'It' I mean Consciousness, Buddha Nature whatever. I know they don't mean the common idea of love.
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The feeling and sensations are arisings of consciousness dependent upon causes/conditions.
To put poetically when focused is placed on the heart then there is an opening to love or rather the sensation of love.
Maybe love is an expression of consciousness. But then again everything is.
But I've studied and practiced a lot of Adya's teachings. So what is pointed out by Adya is that awakening moves from the head to the heart as it gradually matures.
As it reaches the heart a vast spaciousness is known. Also the sense of being nothing when looking inward and being everything when looking outward is realized. What grows as a conclusion is love because there is a unity between me and the world.
But this isn't Buddhism.
In Buddhism love is cultivated for many reasons. But true love only comes after the understanding of suffering of both self and other, imho.