This is not only the desire to ease the pain of another person, but the ability to do so. The second element of true love is compassion, karuna. The fruit of this looking deeply is called understanding. To understand a person, we must have time we must practice looking deeply into this person. If you cannot understand, you cannot love.
If you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. It is the ability to bring joy and happiness to the person you love, because even if your intention is to love this person, your love might make him or her suffer. The first is maitri, which can be translated as lovingkindness or benevolence. Please feel free to follow along, and to share your comments below.The Four Aspects Of Love 1. Her four arms represent the four immeasurables.īecause these heart-opening exercises are so fundamental to Buddhist practice of any kind, we wanted to take a few weeks to focus on each of the Four Immeasurables. The Brahmaviharas, or what Thich Nhat Hanh calls the Four Elements of True Love are known by different names across the various Buddhist schools and traditions such as “four boundless qualities,” “four immeasurables,” “four divine abodes,” “four virtues,” and the “four highest emotions”.Īccording to German Buddhist nun, Ayya Khema, “Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity are the four highest emotions, the only ones worth having.”Īnne Klein of Dawn Mountain Center said that “With practice-lots of practice!-of the four boundless states, our effort resolves into ease, the self-other divide resolves into wholeness, and ideas resolve into direct experience.” In an article at, she went on to say, “we also gain access to the wisdom of our real nature.” - Avalokiteshvara Statue with four armsĪvalokiteshvara (Chenrezig, Tib.) is the bodhisattva of great compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh (from How to Live #BK558) True love has the power to heal and transform any situation and bring deep meaning to our lives. If your love contains these elements, it will be healing and transforming, and it will have the element of holiness in it. In Sanskrit, these are maitri (also known as metta), karuna, mudita, and upeksha, also known as the Brahmaviharas. True love is made of four elements: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
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