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In the Buddhist teaching of love,
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we learn that there are four elements
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that can provide true love and happiness.
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And the first element is maitrī.
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Maitrī means friendship, brotherhood.
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(French) l'amitié, la fraternité
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When you love someone, you offer your
friendship, your brotherhood.
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And friendship and brotherhood does not deprive him or her of his or her freedom.
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When you love, you maintain your whole
freedom
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and you help maintain the freedom of the person you love.
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You don't deprive him or her of his or her freedom.
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We are on an equal basis.
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By loving you, I retain my freedom.
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And by loving you, I respect your freedom.
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And that is maitrī.
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And a friend that does not understand a friend
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cannot really offer his brotherhood, his friendship.
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And that is why to cultivate maitrī
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you have to cultivate understanding, loving kindness.
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You spend your time with him or with her with mindfulness
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and you discover every day
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his need, his difficulties, his obstacles, his deep aspiration
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and on that base of understanding you offer maitrī, happiness.
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Maitrī can become...
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unlimited.
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And this is the kind of love we call love without frontiers,
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infinite love.
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And when you have your love to that uh
level, you are called a Bodhisattva
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You are called a Buddha.
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And there are Buddhas and Bodhisattva in the world.
