From: Robert Didham
Message: 9930
Date: 2006-02-06
>From: Frank <frank@...>
>Reply-To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
>To: pali@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Pali] re: love
>Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 12:06:44 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hi Daniel,
> You made a valid point that a mother's love for their child is often
>tainted or impure, but what would you propose as a better example to
>demonstrate pure love? Since everyone has a mother, and the vast majority
>of us have personally witnessed what mothers sacrifice and are willing to
>do for their children despite ungrateful or ill treatment they receive in
>return, I can understand why the Buddha chose mother/child relationship as
>the best example of metta.
> So what would you propose as a better metaphor?
>
> -fk
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Pali@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Pali@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
>Daniel
>Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 4:20 AM
>To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Pali] Re: Re: Love
>
>
> Hi,
> I beleive that a love of a mother to a child is not always pure love.
>For
> example, mothers often wish for their offspring to have a high social
>status.
> To me it seems not to come from love, but from a desire to be proud of
>oneself,
> due to having such a "successful child". So, it does not seem pure love
>to me.
> In this case, I would doubt if this should be called "love" at all.
>Don't you
> think so?
>
> Regarding "pema" - I never heard of this word. Do you know perhaps
>what is
> the sanskrit\tibetan equivalent?
>
>
>
>
>frank@...
>
>
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