@igm,
igm wrote:
tsarstepan wrote:
Is unconditional love a myth?
My understanding is that in Mahayana Buddhism ‘Unconditioned Love’ is defined as wishing all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness. You start usually by generating love for your mother (often the easiest) then you spread that love out to include your father, other relatives, friends etc… then enemies (who you see as an enemy or dislike for some reason or they see you as an enemy etc... or both), then all sentient beings who are emotionally invisible to you. If you succeed this is called ‘Unconditional Love’ from a relative truth perspective. We also see that since mind has no start then we’ve been reborn so many times that everyone we meet has in a past life been our mother so this helps to see even our enemies with love because they have been our mother in some previous life as we have been theirs.
Ultimate truth simply acts with the prior (pre-ultimate truth) motivation of showing all without exception how to remove the root cause of suffering. However long that takes – hence the need for reincarnation i.e. Buddhist don’t choose reincarnation but since mind cannot be destroyed then it is a part of reality to be reincarnated until Buddhahood. So plenty of time to generate unconditioned love for all sentient beings without exception and to show them how (when they choose to) put and end to the root cause of suffering. That’s my understanding of this subject and the context found in Mahayana Buddhism.
...wrong !
...again the confusion when departing from a temporal explanation into an atemporal explanation...conditions as a term, require a temporal frame referent to make sense...what you are speaking is precisely the love in its atemporal ultimate meaning...Ultimate love is the love of Order...no less LOGIC precisely...the intuition that everything fits and has a place even if temporally in conflict, that is, while the algorithm of the world is not complete, or simply put, still under way...
BUDDHISM precisely explains, that contradictions in the end, (NIRVANA), are dissolved...that there are no paradoxes !!!