explain this quote please
2006-08-31 15:08:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
explain the significance of this quote
2006-08-31 15:13:41 · update #1
Well my take on it:
Its like an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I dont think doing wrong to someone who has done you wrong fixes the problem. You have to do something deeper. Opposites attract and cancel each other out in some cases. Love cancels/transforms hatred into something different. Hatred is void when love is involved. It is eternal because love has always been a constant in humanity. A thing that rules writers and dreamers and artists and life..... blah blah so on and so forth without getting all cheeseballish.
2006-08-31 15:23:20 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ahh, must be Buddhist question night here at the Y!A Theater. The quote is from Buddha, in the Dhammapada, one of the basic texts in Buddhist belief. This is the Buddhist version of the Golden Rule, 'Treat others as you would have them treat you'. There are analogs in the Bible as well, Love your neighbor as yourself, and that turn the other cheek thing which has regrettably become so unfashionable among Christians. What the Buddha was trying to express is this, I think. By hating those that hate you, you give them further cause to hate you back. This binds you to them, locked into a never-ending cycle of self-destruction. By freeing yourself of your hate, you free yourself also of the damage that another's hate can do to you. In Buddhist philosophy, suffering comes from attachments, both positive and negative, and growth is freeing yourself from those same attachments. Peace.
2006-09-01 00:15:10 · answer #2 · answered by Like An Ibis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
" The relationship between the individual and society has to be rightly understood. Why should the individual serve others? What claims has society on the individual? When we examine these issues, we realise that the individual can find fulfillment only in society. Born in society, growing up in society, living in society, man ends his life in society. Man can not exist for a moment away from society. In the word "Samaajam" (society), "Sam" represents "Unity", "aa" means "going towards". Samaajam (Society) means going forward in unity."
"Society may be viewed as a many-petalled flower. Every individual is like a petal. All the petals together make for the beauty of the flower. Without the petals there will be no flower. Likewise every individual is a petal making up the flower of society. Each one should manifest the glory of the Divine."
2006-08-31 22:59:51 · answer #3 · answered by jayakrishnaathmavidya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Events which happened hundreds of years ago can have consequences even now because generations of people learn to hate. Consider that WWI and WWII had their genesis in the hundred years war with France and you understand the implications. Unless one party is willing to give up on revenge the cycle of hatred is never broken. Kosovo also showed that where a battle which took place several hundred years ago still motivated Serbs to kill Muslims.
2006-08-31 22:22:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds ideal and all but I'm not too sure love can always conquer hate. What about those who love to hate? Did not the Nazis relish in their hatred for non-Aryans and Jews? The same for other hate groups?
To love the hater only benefits you spiritually, irregardless if your hater changes his/her ways or not. Eternal rule? Ideal, but who knows.
2006-08-31 22:26:27 · answer #5 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you hate your old teacher, that hatred will cease only when you love his/her's daughter/son !!!
Other meaning is ...
If A = B and B = C then A = C
Got it ???
2006-08-31 22:24:14 · answer #6 · answered by Roark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think the quote is applicable in every situation. In any case keep love out of it. It is empathy rather than love that is important in dealing with friends and foes alike.
2006-08-31 22:22:08 · answer #7 · answered by xavier w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that you can't get rid of hate without love. You can't stop hate with hate. It is significant because it could stop wars if the leaders of all the countries read it and took it to heart.
Peace!
2006-08-31 22:21:02 · answer #8 · answered by songbird 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
??? The eternal rule is for each of us to end suffering instead of creating it. by using love ................ i think ........ not familar with the quote
2006-08-31 22:21:57 · answer #9 · answered by datgirl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope it's just another in a long line of pithy little saying that have little to do with the real world.
2006-08-31 22:20:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋