I am hearing, "I love you more than they do", but I do not believe that love comes in degrees. You either love someone or something or you don't.
Am I way off track again?
Am I way off track again?
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Degrees of love
- Thread starter savagewind
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Spirit of Light
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If you speak of human love between two peope it is love or no love. But if you talk about unconditional love it reach every living being unconditionally meaning it is a different kid of love that do not fade
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Shantanu
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Some times I love the alcoholic spirit Whisky just a little so I can do without it and do not have a craving for it but after having some I develop a craving for it and love it more intesely. It comes from addiction to love, surely?
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
The feel you have for alcohol is craving,not the love part. It show a attachments to the taste and effect you get from alcohol. Love is something different
It's subjective, and can't be quantified. Often attachment is conflated with love. So basically there is no way of knowing.
Shantanu
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You like a person first it then becomes love as you know them more. There is also unconditional love for some people but not for others.
Spirit of Light
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Unconditional love is not physical love it is a form of compassion toward all living beings
Audie
Veteran Member
Hmm. I am such an expert on love, so-
Of course this is personal, not presented
as a universal.
I have had two boyfriends. I thought this was
love, with the first one. Now I know it was not.
Second one, love was like the dawn coming up, it
was not all at once, all or nothing. I was scared
of it, letting myself love or letting him close.
It has grown and deeped the whole time, even when
I was not ready to admit it to mydelf that he had
found his way over under around and through every
every barrier.
So to me, love grows, I hope so much that ours never stops
growing.
Shantanu
Well-Known Member
Can you be taught unconditional love?
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
In my experience, no unconditional love is something that arise to those who open up to compassion toward all living beings, i would say it is an ablility
Shantanu
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Do you also feel unconditional love towards plants and trees?
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Yes
Spirit of Light
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I do not want to harm any living entities
Audie
Veteran Member
We are alike there. Sometimes of course, one makes
exceptions, as one cannot live without killing.
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Ofcourse if we walk in te forest we can not always see what is under the surface we walking on, and yes there can be living beings who get crushed, but we do not do kill them with intention. We should never kill any living being with intention
Audie
Veteran Member
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
I do not kill plants to eat them.
yes i do eat vegetabiles but i do not grow them my self. Even Buddha said plants can be eaten.
The worsed we can kill is animals. birds, but ofcourse even eating plants does acumulate karma
Shantanu
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Not even if your survival depended on it?
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Yes,