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October 31 - November 14, 2023
HEART LIKE A RIVER If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable.
The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform.
But when our hearts expand, these same things don’t make us suffer anymore.
We have a lot of understanding and compassion and can embrace others. We accept others as they are,
how do we help our heart...
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Everything needs food to live, even love.
That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.
UNDERSTANDING IS THE NATURE OF LOVE
Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love.
True love gives us beauty, freshness, solidity, freedom, and peace.
feeling of deep joy that we are alive.
FOUR ELEMENTS OF TRUE LOVE
True love is made of four elements: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
True love
The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness. You can be the sunshine for another person.
build a home inside by accepting yourself and learning to love and heal yourself.
practice mindfulness in such a way that you can create moments of happiness and joy ...
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Compassion is the capacity to understand the suffering in oneself and in the other person.
Understanding suffering brings compassion and relief.
When you know how to generate joy, it nourishes you and nourishes the other person.
equanimity. We can also call it inclusiveness or nondiscrimination.
What happens to your loved one happens to you.
respect and trust.
When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence.
Trust that you have a good and compassionate nature.
BE BEAUTIFUL, BE YOURSELF
accept your body, then you have a chance to see your body as your home. You can rest in your body, settle in, relax, and feel joy and ease. If
accept yourself as you are.
As you practice building a home in yourself, you become more and more beautiful.
Every child is born in the garden of humanity as a flower.
Hugging meditation is a combination of East and West. According to the practice, you have to really hug the person you are holding.
breathing consciously and hugging with all your body, spirit, and heart.
“Breathing in, I know my dear one is in my arms, alive. Breathing out, she is so precious to me.”
What happens in the body will have an effect on the mind and vice versa. Mind
practices of breathing, walking, concentration, and understanding can help you greatly in dealing with your emotions, in listening to and embracing your suffering,
three kinds of intimacy: physical, emotional, and spiritual.
We want to be in harmony with someone.
Loving someone doesn’t mean saying “yes” to whatever the other person wants.
To keep our commitment to our partner, and to weather the most difficult storms, we need strong roots.
balance is fragile. We only need a slight breeze to blow for us to fall down. A
Resilient trees can weather a violent storm because their roots are deep and firm.
roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.
you become an instrument of love and peace in the world.
Love is not a kind of prison. True love gives us a lot of space.
When your loved one is talking, practice listening deeply.
Don’t cut your loved one off or criticize their words.
But right now, we just listen.
High self-esteem is also a sickness, because you consider yourself to be above others and that causes suffering
When you compare two selves to each other, suffering will result. Real liberty is freedom from all these complexes.
A TRUE PARTNER
true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.
