Hi DC,

Yes I agree, neither Love nor Nibbana can be described with words. As they say in Chan, when you start to use words, you've already gone to hell,

Mettā,

Bryan






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From: DC Wijeratna <dcwijeratna@...>
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, December 29, 2009 10:40:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Pali] Previous email resent with Velthuis translieration and translation of Pali passage


Hi Bryan,

"
True love is the love with no opposite - selfless, unselfish, total unconditional compassion with no ego in the way - same for Nibbana."

"with no ego in the way": Love is a concept, or may be an emotion, that has the "ego". A loves B, C, D, ....whole world.." Still the A is there. For a 'Nibbanic mind", there is no world to love. It is not possible to use any human concept to describe Nibbaana. This is what MN 1 is about. The bhikkhus to whom it was preached did not accept it delightfully (Really did not understand it). The only sutta in the Nikaayas, to my knowledge, where that happened.

Mettaa,

DC(D. G. D. C. Wijeratna)

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