LOVE

 What is love? What is this feeling that we all feel?

As a Buddhist, you have the merit to recognize the true nature of love according to the teachings of the Buddha.

"Love is a merit"

"Pure love is a virtue"

This is an ideology spread by a certain Dharma distortion organization that is currently targeting the young generation. TikTok videos and videos of those preachers are widely shared on Fb and WhatsApp. The names of Siddhartha and Yashodhara Bodhisattva are also being ruthlessly used for this Dharma distortion by them.

The young generation, who are ignorant of the Dharma, who do not even know the prematho jayati shoko gatha verse in the Dhammapada, can be imagined as they have spread in society.

 You will suffer a lot of harm by falling into such traps led by a group of people who reject Abhidhamma and do not know Abhidhamma and have adopted Aryopadhyaya. The details of the good and bad minds are in Abhidhamma. So someone who only listens to the sermons of that institution will never read Abhidhamma. They will not listen to the sermons of a monk in an ordinary temple. (Our institution is the only place where good people live. The concepts of Guru and God are ingrained in their heads. See if it is possible to post a sermon by another monk in their fb group.)

So they will always live with these "love is a virtue" 

"Time to message a girl you love"

etc. and will tread the path to hell. They will accept the empty words of such empty people as the same Dhamma preached by the Lord Buddha.

The youth of schools and universities are their biggest prey. See if you have also fallen for them.  Share with others and save people from that trap.

Below is an analysis of love according to Abhidhamma by a venerable Thero who preaches the words of the Tripitaka Buddha, quoted from the Minipura Amasanthi Tapovanaya fb page. May it be correct!!!

*What is love, affection? First, introduce the true meaning of this and secondly, show how to get rid of the burning associated with these words.*

Love, affection, attachment to those people and things is greed. Love is called greed. Affection, respect, affection, care, devotion, love are called love. The desire that arises in relation to those things and those people, desire, lust, greed, ugliness, love, love, affection, all these names are called this greed.  The extent of this can be understood by knowing the details of human birth in the Vibhangattha story.

In the human world, a child is born when the mother is pregnant, the parents have sex, and a suitable karmic being comes along. That embryo attaches to the wall of the uterus and grows in the mother's womb for nearly ten months. It is in complete darkness. It is born like a worm in a cesspool of feces in the womb, a very disgusting place with an extremely foul-smelling air filled with the smell of filth. For those ten months, it has to endure a lot of suffering, like a dough ball, boiling in the heat, without shrinking or expanding.

When the mother walks, sits, and stands up, she suffers a lot in various postures, like a baby snake caught in the hands of a wicked man.  When that mother drinks cold water, she suffers greatly, like someone born in a cold hell, when she eats hot porridge, like someone caught in a shower of burning coals, when she eats salty and sour food, like someone whose palms and soles are covered in salty and sour food.

When that mother gives birth to a child, she is thrown into a terrible abyss like a vicious wind, and is pulled out of the mouth of the vagina with a key, and is caged in the Sangha with rocks, she suffers greatly.

The body of a newborn baby is like a fresh wound. When it is picked up, when it is bathed, when it is washed with cloth, when it is pierced with needles, when it is cut with razors, it causes pain.

When beings are born in a certain place according to their karma, the parents of those places do not even know about it.  They do not see the truth that happens in all stages of life, whether it is a child, a child, a youth, or an old person. 

The mind is not one but a generation. There are twelve unwholesome minds that produce unwholesome results. Eight of them are greed-based minds. The root cause of all unwholesome minds is ignorance, which is the root of ignorance. There are eight minds that have the unwholesome root of ignorance, and the unwholesome root of greed is known. 

The seven unwholesome paths of karma, namely, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, slander, empty speech, intense greed (abhidhya), and false views, are all carried out by greed-based minds. 

 Similarly, drinking alcohol, gambling, taking bribes, giving bribes, dancing and watching dancing for pleasure, singing, listening to songs, wearing beautiful clothes, applying perfume to the body for pleasure, eating sweet food for pleasure, looking at beautiful things for pleasure, playing games, watching games, acquiring wealth, protecting the wealth acquired, giving wealth to obtain a desired object, preparing clothes, houses, etc. for pleasure. When they are used, greed-based thoughts arise. The majority of greed-based thoughts arise in ordinary people during the day.

When the above points are considered with wisdom and the benefits are considered from the wholesome causes of non-greed, non-delusion, and delusion, unwholesome thoughts do not arise.

In this way, all the points should be investigated and examined with wisdom. Love and affection are also called greed.  The love that arises between young people is the same greed that has emerged as lust. It disappears when the same form, voice, behavior, etc. change. What disappears is the lust shown by each person, not their own offspring. When they meet other people as their goals, the lust that is born from offspring emerges as love.

By carefully studying the eight root minds of greed mentioned in the Abhidhamma, one can know the extent of greed called love and affection. Everything should be examined with wisdom. Without allowing the mind and intellect to be swallowed up by lust and defilements, one should contemplate all the dhammas wisely from the time of birth. Having understood the unreal and false nature of the norms or the perceptions, and the true nature of the cycle of samsara in the objective dhammas, one should make it the sole aim to transcend samsara with wisdom rather than the three characteristics....