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Love and Attachment

webster26webster26
in Buddhism Basics
Looking into the idea of liberating one's self from attachment, is love not in itself a form of attachment? Should it be avoided or discouraged?

Thanks

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  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    No, it isn't. Attachment to Love - is a form of attachment.

    It is good to love with wholehearted abandonment and complete giving.
    It is good to let go of that love with equal wholehearted abandonment and complete releasing.

    Love - Unconditional love - is the heart-essence of your existence.
    Developed and cultivated with Wisdom and Compassion, understanding its impermanence makes it all the more precious.
    When Love is here, give yourself to it.
    When it's time to release it - do so.
    Contentedly and with the inner smile that is the expression of stable and profound joy.
    lobsterMaryAnne
  • PrairieGhostPrairieGhost Veteran
    If we choose love, we are attached, if we refuse love, we are confined.

    You cannot have your answer.
  • ZeroZero Veteran
    it is if you attach to it
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran
    It depends what you really mean when you say "Love". Are you speaking of the selfish kind, or the selfless kind?
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    There is only one kind. Any other kind - isn't Love - if it has an Agenda.
    RebeccaS
  • SilouanSilouan Veteran
    Love is the personal absolute and not impersonal. Self cherishing is the root of all attachments, and it constricts the heart's capacity to truly love where self emptying love is the expansion or enlargement of the heart.
  • lobsterlobster Crusty Veteran
    when clinging and defilements are removed our natural condition of bodhicitta is present . . .
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    I read something a couple of weeks ago in a book by Ajahn Sumedho that relates well to this thread, I will try and write it out in my own words but they are weaker I am sure.

    The Buddh made a direct attack on 'me and mine' as that is the only thing blocking you up. The obstacle is the attachment to a self view, if you see through this self view, let go of that, then you'll understand and rest. When one gets involved with the image of the self be it in your own body or your partners, that will cause obstacle after obstacle which will cause suffering. You do not need to go endlessly on into the complexity of things if you just let go of the ignorant view of 'I am'.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    What is attachment? What is love? I'm drawing a blank, which is interesting :nyah:
    ThailandTomPrairieGhost
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    Just let it go Jeffrey :p Everytime you grasp at an idea you become reborn, a self is born once more over and over and over, makes my head spin!
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