Wise thoughts! Thank you, y not.
1. As long as one thinks that happiness can be achieved within this world (for humans, it is the pursuit of sensual pleasures), one is not in a position to “show true love/compassion” for another.
- Once one realizes that the “pursuit of sensual pleasures” only leads to more suffering, one can genuinely “show true love/compassion” for another by explaining “how to overcome the suffering in an absolute way.”
2. Only a Buddha can figure out “how to overcome the suffering in an absolute way.”
- See, for example, “Introduction – What is Suffering?“
- One will have true confidence in the “Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha” only when comprehending the above.
3. I believe that is what y not expressed as follows:
“Having confidence in the best, the result is the best”
The Best of Beings (buddhe aveccappasāda; here, aveccappasāda means to have “unbreakable confidence”; thus having “unbreakable confidence” in the Buddha. )
The Best Teaching (dhamme aveccappasāda; having “unbreakable confidence” in the teachings or Dhamma.) The Best Community (saṅghe aveccappasāda; having “unbreakable confidence” in the teachings or Sangha.) “Having confidence in the best, the result is the best”
- Those verses are in many suttas. See, for example, “Ānandatthera Sutta (SN 55.13).”
- Also see #3 of “Sotapatti Aṅga – The Four Qualities of a Sotāpanna.”
- Only when one has such “unbreakable confidence” in the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha can one “truly love others” by explaining how to get there. Note: Sangha here does not mean “bhikkhu,” but anyone at or above the Sotapanna stage, i.e., a Noble Person.
- Also see “5. Ariya Metta Bhavana (Loving Kindness Meditation)“
