BIBFRAME Work

Title

Like milk and water mixed

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Dhammika, Shravasti, 1951- (author)

Subject

• Love--Religious aspects--Buddhism (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Classification

LCC: BQ4570.L6 D43 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"These reflections are based on the transcripts of a series of talks I gave in Singapore in 2012. While preparing these talks I read a selection of contemporary writings on and studies of love. As my reading and reflections proceeded, I soon became aware that a swirl of myths surround love. The most noticeable of these myths is that love is a widely felt and easily evoked experience. It is celebrated endlessly in song and story, it is ardently professed, hailed as the solution to many- sometimes all- human problems. Yet while love is not necessarily rare, it is certainly not as common or as enduring as is generally supposed. The good news is that almost everyone has loved or has tried to love at some time or another. This can be taken as compelling evidence that all of us are capable of love, and perhaps even that it is an innate potential we all possess. Certainly Buddhism would agree with this and add to it, saying that our love can go beyond being projected to a few people to being pervaded to everyone, indeed to all sentient life. The Buddha taught a series of spiritual exercises meant to do exactly this - to strengthen the love we already have, transmute it into a higher love and then make it all-embracing"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Dhammika, Shravasti, 1951-. Like milk and water mixed

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• Date: 2026-09-30T17:47:10.856835+00:00
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• Derived from: 23410132

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• Date: 2026-09-30
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• Description language: eng
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