***True Love*** Let's talk about what is true love. Accordin..
Added 2022-06-10 02:58:29 +0000 UTC***True Love*** Let's talk about what is true love. According to the Buddha, **the elements of true love are:** **Loving-kindness (metta) Compassion (karuna) Sympathetic Joy (mudita) Equanimity (upekkha)** If you lack any of these elements in your relationship, it is not true love. It is simply addictive clinging and/or controlling attachment, which comes from fear. When you are at the energy level of fear, you feel incomplete within yourself and you desperately seek external validation to temporarily fill your sense of lack. You then expect the other person/condition/thing to make you happy, when they don't live up to your expectation, you suffer. Ask yourself often: **"Do I really love that person, or am I in love with the image/superficial glamour I have projected onto him/her/them?"**
