Love

The similar interpretation concerning Buddhist compassion is also found in Winston L. King who had a detailed survey on the comparison between Christian love and Buddhist compassion18). Some passages from his book will be quoted in the following.Its -highest form and limitless extension involve a state of experience in which one passes even beyond empathy (the feeling of oneself as though momentarily he were another) into the complete identification of oneself with other selves, so that the distinction between “my” joy and “your” joy actually ceases to be19).If Christian love might be described as spontaneously and intensely personalin spirit, practical and direct in its expression, historically and socially minded in viewpoint, Buddhist loving-kindness must be described as systematic and calculated, indirect and impersonal, and atomistically individualistic20).But in any case Buddhist loving-kindness did not provide the necessary inspiration to change the social order, and thereby demonstrated a fundamental incapacity to deal with historical and political realities2l)_ 17) 1 John 4: 7-8.18) Buddhism and Christianity-some bridges of understanding, pp. 64-102.19) ibid., pp. 77-8.20) ibid., p. 91.21) ibid., p. 101. Magahi sanskrit read more. El AMOR espera algo a cambio, es condicional, es independiente, es eterno, inmutable, no tolera mal comportamiento y no se dirige a todos. 1 corintios 13 Gautama changed his way of thinking during his life and buddhism during history. [...x]