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From: rsp@PacBell.COM (Steve Price)
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Subject: Love vrs Hate in Buddhist meditation
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Date: 16 Mar 90 14:32:03 GMT
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I'm reading CONCENTRATION AND MEDITATION by Christmas Humphreys and have 
read something I wish to understand more clearly.   Any light shed on this
would be appreciated.

Christmas (I love that name for a Buddhist writer!) says on page 140:
"...those who hold that love is the guiding principle of life must remember
that love, like any other principle, would be meaningless without its opposite."

Is love NOT the guiding principle of the universe?
What is he implying about HATE?  that it is "necessary"? inevitable? useful?

How does this assertion balance with the assertion that "Compassion" for all
must be the goal of walking the Path?  I thought that Buddhism says that love
for all must be the purpose behind every pilgrim journey.


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...argument does not teach children or the immature. 
   Only time and experience does that.			Doris Lessing