If you cannot understand, you cannot love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Training is needed in order to love properly and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice deep looking directed toward the person you love. Loving-kindness is not only the desire to make someone happy, to bring joy to a beloved person it is the ability to bring joy and happiness to the person you love, because even if your intention is to love this person, your love might make him or her suffer. The first is maitri, which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence. Looking at human love through the lens of Buddhist teaching, he breaks it down into four aspects: loving-kindness, compassion, joy and freedom and uses his direct and simple style to advise us how to put these elements to work in our own lives.Īccording to Buddhism, there are four elements of true love.

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Pocket Paperback 120 pages Related products In the concluding section of the book, Thich Nhat Hanh explains how we can bring love to bear on our own pain, fear, and negativity. He offers the technique of conscious breathing as a way of synchronizing the mind and the body and establishing the conditions for love.

Thich Nhat Hanh explains that in order to love in a real way, we need to learn how to be fully present in our lives. In his characteristically direct, simple, and gentle style, he explores the four key aspects of love as described in the Buddhist tradition: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and freedom. In True Love, Thich Nhat Hanh offers us a Buddhist view of love along with techniques for manifesting it in our daily lives.

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