Question - What's the difference between (passionate feeling of) love and compassion (selflessness)?
One doesn't necessarily must have passionate feeling of love towards all and everyone for enabling one to be compassionate and kind towards all and everyone, or not to be hurtful and unkind towards all and everyone.
Having lots of passionate feeling of love towards certain beings or objects doesn't necessarily mean that one will be compassionate and kind, or wouldn't be unkind and hurtful towards all and everyone.
Without feelings of love towards anyone or anything doesn't necessarily mean that one isn't compassionate or couldn't be compassionate, or one will be unkind to others, or one wouldn't be kind to others.
Under the presence of compassion, one can be compassionate and be kind to all and everyone, and won't be hurtful and unkind to anyone or anything, even though one doesn't have passionate feeling of love towards certain beings or objects.
Under the absence of compassion, one even can be hurtful and unkind towards certain beings or objects that one loves out of ungratified desires and impurities of dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, hatred, jealousy, greed, feelings of hurt, offensiveness, defensiveness, fear and worry, either intentionally or unintentionally, not to say one could be hurtful and unkind towards certain beings and objects that one doesn't love or disagrees with, intentionally.
Even though compassion can be present or absent due to the presence or absence of ignorance, but compassion is always there, never appear or disappear, regardless of whether the mind is free or not free from ignorance, where compassion is 'unveiled' upon the absence of ignorance and compassion is 'hidden' under the presence of ignorance.
Passionate feeling of love is influenced and determined by desire of craving and aversion, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements towards the different quality of names and forms, and is conditioned by impermanence and will change, while compassion is unconditioned by desire of craving and aversion, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, beyond all the qualities of names and forms, and it doesn't change, neither increase nor decrease.
The sun, the earth, the water, the air and the space don't have passionate feeling of love towards all and everything for them to be there supporting all and everything to be here, selflessly, intentionlessly and ceaselessly.
Contemplate on this and realize selfless/intentionless/ceaseless compassion. Be free from attachment/craving/clinging towards conditional passionate love deriving from ignorance and egoism.
One doesn't necessarily must have passionate feeling of love towards all and everyone for enabling one to be compassionate and kind towards all and everyone, or not to be hurtful and unkind towards all and everyone.
Having lots of passionate feeling of love towards certain beings or objects doesn't necessarily mean that one will be compassionate and kind, or wouldn't be unkind and hurtful towards all and everyone.
Without feelings of love towards anyone or anything doesn't necessarily mean that one isn't compassionate or couldn't be compassionate, or one will be unkind to others, or one wouldn't be kind to others.
Under the presence of compassion, one can be compassionate and be kind to all and everyone, and won't be hurtful and unkind to anyone or anything, even though one doesn't have passionate feeling of love towards certain beings or objects.
Under the absence of compassion, one even can be hurtful and unkind towards certain beings or objects that one loves out of ungratified desires and impurities of dissatisfaction, disappointment, anger, hatred, jealousy, greed, feelings of hurt, offensiveness, defensiveness, fear and worry, either intentionally or unintentionally, not to say one could be hurtful and unkind towards certain beings and objects that one doesn't love or disagrees with, intentionally.
Even though compassion can be present or absent due to the presence or absence of ignorance, but compassion is always there, never appear or disappear, regardless of whether the mind is free or not free from ignorance, where compassion is 'unveiled' upon the absence of ignorance and compassion is 'hidden' under the presence of ignorance.
Passionate feeling of love is influenced and determined by desire of craving and aversion, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements towards the different quality of names and forms, and is conditioned by impermanence and will change, while compassion is unconditioned by desire of craving and aversion, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements, beyond all the qualities of names and forms, and it doesn't change, neither increase nor decrease.
The sun, the earth, the water, the air and the space don't have passionate feeling of love towards all and everything for them to be there supporting all and everything to be here, selflessly, intentionlessly and ceaselessly.
Contemplate on this and realize selfless/intentionless/ceaseless compassion. Be free from attachment/craving/clinging towards conditional passionate love deriving from ignorance and egoism.
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