Buddha Thought about love

Jim Chilson
1 min readJan 25, 2022

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As blood nourishes the heart and keeps it flowing, so love nourishes spiritual freedom and keeps it flowing.

The bond is so strong that Buddhism, also known as the Path of Freedom, could be described as a religion of love.

Perhaps this is what the Dalai Lama meant when he said his religion is kindness.

Love, according to the Buddha, is one of the paths to complete spiritual liberation.

If we call Buddhism a religion of love, we must define what we mean by love, or more specifically, what types of love we include.

Because freedom is the ultimate guide, measure, and goal of all things Buddhist.

Indeed, in keeping with the general practice of Buddhist teachings, That Hanh delivers distilled infusions of clarity, employing simple language and metaphor to address the most fundamental concerns of the soul.

To receive his teachings, one must actively commit not to succumb to the Western pathology of cynicism, our flawed self-protection mechanism that readily dismisses anything sincere and true as simplistic or naive — even if, or precisely because, we know that all true truth and sincerity are simple by virtue of being true and sincere.

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Jim Chilson
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