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Anonymous /b/937500445#937504913
7/24/2025, 12:28:52 AM
Love everybody
Anonymous /b/937418940#937419795
7/22/2025, 12:49:36 AM
Metta is not ordinary love. It is the quality of love we experience in our whole being, a love that has no ulterior motive — and no opposite.

When we say that we love such-and-such a person or thing, we usually mean that their appearance, behavior, ideas, or attitudes fill a perceived deficiency in us. We don’t actually see the other person. If their traits change, we might no longer feel love. When our tastes, whims, or fancies change, we might also fall out of love. We love now, but perhaps later we’ll hate. We love when everything is smooth and easy, but we may feel the opposite when things get difficult. When our love is that situational, what we call “love” is not metta, but lust, greed, or even exploitation.

When you say you love someone, what you conceive in your mind is generally an emotion conditioned by the behavior or qualities of that person. Perhaps you admire the person’s appearance, manner, ideas, voice, or attitude. Yet should these conditions change, or your tastes, whims, and fancies change, what you call love might change as well. In extreme cases, this kind of dualistic love is related to hate. You may love one person and hate another. Or you love someone now and hate them later. Or you love whenever you feel like it and not when you don’t. Or you love when everything is smooth and rosy and hate when anything goes wrong.

If your love changes from time to time, place to place, and situation to situation in this fashion, that which you call love is not what the Buddha taught, not the skillful thought of loving-friendliness. It may be lust, greed for material security, desire to feel loved, or some other form of greed in disguise. True loving-friendliness has no ulterior motive. It never changes into hate as circumstances change. It never makes you angry if you do not get favors in return. Loving-friendliness motivates you to behave kindly to all beings at all times and to speak gently in their presence and in their absence.