Gautama Siddhartha taught detachment with compassion. So romantic love did not exactly rank high on his list of human phenomena. read more
Romantic love is a form of attachment fueled by desire and prone to jealousy, all of which leads to pain and away from enlightenment. Gautama Siddhartha taught detachment with compassion. So romantic love did not exactly rank high on his list of human phenomena. read more
Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content Tagged With: Buddhism, Lodro Rinzler, one night stand, relationships, sex, Sex and Relationships, The Buddha Walks Into a Bar About Lodro Rinzler Lodro Rinzler is a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage and the author of the books"The Buddha Walks into a Bar" and"Walk Like a Buddha". read more
Well, as a student of Buddhism and one who writes about relationships, I can tell you that every time I’ve tried to contextualize a Buddhist teaching as a way of understanding love, it works. So not too long ago, I thought about the four noble truths and the three yanas in connection with that which we long for and fear the most: love. read more