![]() ![]() With this way of seeing, you speak and act differently. In a relationship, if you can see the nature of interbeing between you and the other person, you can see that his suffering is your own suffering, and your happiness is his own happiness. I am made only of non-me elements, such as the Earth, the sun, parents, and ancestors. A flower can only inter-be with all of us… Humans are like this too. If we were to remove all the non-flower elements from the flower, there would be no flower left. A flower is made only of non-flower elements, such as chlorophyll, sunlight, and water. But there is no such thing as an individual separate self. This is because we are caught by the idea of self. “Often, when we say, “I love you” we focus mostly on the idea of the “I” who is doing the loving and less on the quality of the love that’s being offered. But according to Thich Nhat Hanh, true love involves letting go of the ego and understanding that we’re in this together: Thich Nhat Hanh says that when people say “I love you”, they are caught in the idea of “self” and focused on the “I”. What “I love you” really meansĪt the heart of Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings is the idea that “understanding is love’s other name.” In other words, to love someone is to fully understand his or her sufferings. Below, we’ve found a passage where he explains why “I love you” might not mean what you think it does.
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