The Elements Of True Love

In the Buddhist teaching of love, there are four elements. The first is maitri – friendship, brotherhood, loving-kindness. And the second is karuna – capacity to understand the suffering and help remove and transform it – compassion. Mudita is the third element – joy – your joy is her joy, her joy is our joy. The last element is upeksha – nondiscrimination. This is a higher form of love. The four qualities have no limits – infinite love – these elements are also call the Four Unlimited Minds.

The bodhisattva of love is in you.

This is part two of a talk give on November 25, 2004 at Plum Village.

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Such insight into the human condition. I try to learn a little every day and be better than I was

Gratitude for all the beautiful teachings he left us with.

The wisdom shared in this short talk explains what is to love and to be unconditional love 💫💚 in gratitude 🙏

May we all follow this path with love ❤️ and loving kindness 🙏

A balm for my soul my current situation.
Grateful to have this come to me today. 💜