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Love / Friendliness

• Great love arises naturally if we have the wish to repay kindness.
• What do mother sentient beings want? Happiness. Wish them happiness and causes of happiness, which is virtue.
• Put an end to attachment and aversion for love to arise.
• Warmth that reaches out and embraces others is known as love or friendliness.
• The mala functions because the beads are strung together. They maintain a relationship. If you break the string, the beads scatter. The thread is samaya. Our samaya with our teacher and fellow disciples is to maintain loving kindness.
• Extend love towards those who are in tremendous pain, suffering, anguish, and fear. Recite Tara mantra.
• Accumulate habit of love.
• Look at enemy with a kind face. Aspire that enemy should have causes of happiness.
• Shut brain. Open heart. Value others. Value for others comes from heart, not brain.
• I am asking you to change your heart, not your religion.
• Teacher gives us project outside, purpose is to work on the heart inside. The work is inside. Look for progress inside, not outside.
• When love fills your heart, it is not difficult to act for the benefit of others.
• Love is water. Compassion is sprout. You need love for all sentient beings to make compassion come out.
• Bodhisattva approach is to change inside. The dirt is inside. If you rub the mirror, it will not clean your face. The way to teach them is to love them.
• Who is near medicine? Sick people. In dharma center, sick people come. Don’t expect people to be wonderful.
• Depending on love, practice generosity, discipline, patience.
• When you are in love, you worry about that person. If you have love, you will worry about sentient beings.
• Understand that whoever you have the greatest love for, we have had such connections with every sentient being at one time or another.
• Love when directed at buddhas is devotion, when directed at sentient beings is compassion.
• Animals can’t complain – so think for them.
• Beings must experience the fruition of whatever karma they have accumulated. But to whatever degree we can cultivate loving kindness, to that degree beings will experience corresponding benefit.
• Kindness is action that makes other happy.
• Love is how to break the barrier separating self and others.
• When you feel love for one sentient being, expand this love.
• All beings have love. Even wild animals take care of their babies. But our love boils down to attachment and self-grasping. Buddha’s love is selfless, unconditional.
• Pray that we do not become harmful to sentient beings.
• Show special love and compassion to those who have come a long way, those who are old and sick.
• Radiate love to all sentient beings. Don’t think about whether you are close or not.
• Discipline your children. This is part of bodhisattva’s love.
• Value the life of others as you value your own.