Embodied:
Lal gives the grades as three:
Kamaccanda (kama + icca+ anda), Kama raga and Metta
The instance I am refering to lies somewhere between raga and metta and includes both and is connected to what Embodied says by: ..’.however in the case of my post there was no sexual connotation’ Yes, togetherness is there, but not gross sexual passion as we crave it in this material world, but would be quite in place in a higher, finer world,finer in more senses than one. We get the feeling that we had known some one before in a close relationship, and on meeting it is more a recognition than anything else. We ‘know’ that person already.
‘Metta/compassion and/or love: there is some subjectivity to be dealt with here, if i may… Because compassion can be seen as a form of love but a love that doesn’t “tie” us (hopefully) thus compatible with Pure Dhamma.’ The ‘tie’ would be compatable with Buddhadhamma if the relationship is one carried to and also probabaly from higher realms(as well as into the human one) IF THE PARTNERS ATTAIN MAGGA PHALA here or elsewhere, and not necessarily at the same time, either. And, as an aside, I have not yet come across passages in the Tipitaka where there is, at the very least, communication or interaction between the dwellers there. But such must be the case, otherwise existence there would be totally subjective, much like the Devachan of Theosophy.
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