Buddhism's Four Elements of True Love Explored

This was a very interesting read filled with prodigious insight, I excepted to be dull and dry, but after reading Buddhism’s four elements of true love I realized that the way the aspect love is explained in this book, is very unique. The way it explain it true love with the elements like compassion or loving-kindness, or even joy and freedom are all ways that we know we should try people in society with in general on a daily basis. I never really thought of it as true love until I read this book. This made me think that if I talk to someone with one of these four elements, does that mean that I have some sort of love or care for them in this society, even if they possibly could be someone random. This really got me thinking about this question

For me that’s not always true in every case, for example I volunteered at Royal Columbian Hospital in the past and there was one situation that I got experience where a mother gave birth to a baby boy without any arms or legs, their where many complication, the bay died the next day after his birth. Even though the mother couldn’t understand the baby’s goals or aspirations, she was still able to love the baby since it was in her womb. At the present of the baby’s passing you could see the how heartbroken they were the sorrow in that family’s eyes, could tell you that they loved the baby and would do anything to save him if they could. So I don’t think you need to understand that deeply a person to love them, it would just be much better for the relationship if they could, but it wouldn’t be impossible like it says in the text. However, I don’t think I would be able to read get a chance to read and analysis this in anything like this in any other

I did think it was going to be a story about her, so this defiantly was more interesting than I excepted. The main message I got from Lorde’s story and how this women struggled with being silent, is that being silent is going to protect you or help one come over their fears, instead people should over come this fear and speak up to whatever they need to speak up about, this to was seen as her main message in this text because later on, Lorde explains how she’s regret her decision in the past by being so silent, and how others will regret too if they don’t give this message more profound thought. So this was unique read because she was a black lesbian poet, which is incredible since the stigma in society around black people and sexual orientation. Relating this to this article, in today’s society I feel like many people stay silent because they are scared worrying about what people may say or think about them, especially being in the 20th century were everyone practically has some sort of profile on the internet, this makes it much easier for people to get targeted easily, while spreading their opinions out quickly. But after reading this article I realized that people including myself should speak up more often as other people may be struggling or needing the same help as you so you can be a helping hand for each other. Speaking up