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karasti · Breathing · Veteran
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Re: Love - shaped hole in Buddhism?
If we are suffering it is because we have created the state of suffering in our minds. There is nothing inherent in being married, having children, being the child of someone else etc that is sufferi… (View Post)
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Re: Love - shaped hole in Buddhism?
Someone I read, possibly Chogyam Trungpa, talked about love and compassion being...oh i can't think of the term he used. Like, incubating, in an egg. When we feel emotional at a beautiful mountain or… (View Post)1 -
Re: Love - shaped hole in Buddhism?
I've never felt that Buddhism actively discourages loving relationships except for monastics of course. I've never felt unBuddhist for loving my children or husband. But I have found that that connec… (View Post)2 -
Re: Love - shaped hole in Buddhism?
Maybe the reason there isn't a lot of focus on love and relationships is because there is an underlying assumption that when you do all this work in Buddhism, one of the major lessons is to learn how… (View Post)3 -
Re: Love - shaped hole in Buddhism?
For myself, I guess I haven't experienced the diminishing of those relationships. They are always used by people I've studied with as the jumping off point for recognizing and expanding love, compass… (View Post)
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