Love & Aliveness

I have heard this Buddhist path referred to as a religion of love. When the Dalai Lama said his religion is kindness. So if we call Buddhism a religion of love we need to be clear about what we mean by love. Freedom is considered the guide or the ultimate goal of all things Buddhist. So love is characterized by freedom. Love that involves clinging or lust, confusion, neediness, fear, or grasping to self, the ego, would in Buddhist terms, be seen as expressions of bondage and limitation.