We may all agree that it easy to love back any people who love us selflessly, but we don't want to practice this love first!
It seems that mankind continue to exist thanks to the sefless love of the mothers. No mothers require that their children should love them selflessly beforehand; but they blindly love their disobedient children despite of what sufferings their children cause to them.
Just think why we don't selflessly love other people like the mothers with their children? Perhaps, because of blood connection? Of social duty? Of some hope? Of instinct or intuition?
I think the strongest reason is faith. Many people in the world treat each other disloyally, but the cases of disloyal children to their mothers are very rare.
So, to practice love, we should learn again about love, faith and the true purpose of our life. If we realize that we become noble as loving mothers and other immature people are going to hopefully react as children, we will become more encouraging in love.
2006-10-14 18:07:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Intense Selfishness, Self-Cherishing and Self-centredness is the reason why Selflessness is almost non-existent in the world nowadays.
Everyone wants to be happy, No one wants hurt or pain. When extending a hand of help or kindness, Fear of rejection grips most people. Also, self-benefit almost always springs to mind, like "will it benefit me if I help?" Worse, " Will I get roped into trouble if I help? Like will this person hound me all the time to be a pilalr of strength?"
Selfless Love for others is not to totally be ignorant of our own needs, but I believe it is putting the needs of our Loved Ones before ours be they Family, Lovers, Friends or Colleagues.
Selfless Love is an easy practice to preach, a 5 year old can quote it but an 80 year old will find trouble applying it. Because to be able to feel selfless love, someone out there must first show what suffering is, so that Kindness, Compassion and a Caring Heart rises in our being... Mother Teresa was a wonderful example of Selfless Love. The locals were against her for fear of her converting them and causing family feuds, the vatican ex-commed her for disobeying their instructions ( from autobiography books ) and the overwhelming numbers of homeless, sick and unloved was really beyond a simple nun with only a few rupees to her name. Yet she stuck it out.... Selfless Love is Sacrificial Love... Mothers sacrifice their strength, their bodies and take the pain to love and protect a child....
Not many of us are willing to sacrifice our comforts for anything or anyone... Try taking my last tub of Rocky Road to love someone and you will hear the loudest screech of protest ring thru the sky lol :) lol
2006-10-14 18:34:30 · answer #1 · answered by Tiara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you must define love. I am convinced that no one really has a working definition of this concept. Many think it means to give to others, to show compassion, mercy, understanding, acceptance, gratitude, honor. Still if the concept of love embodies the above then the idea of "selfless love" would be to GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY...at least preserving little for ones own, and also to show all of the above to others but NOT to ones self.
So, the answer is clear: it is UNNATURAL for earthers to give everything they have away; even though some try valiantly to please a deity or a loved one. Some even give all they have in order to buy the love they feel they lack, this is in itself SELFISH. It is also stupid and ignorant to love others at the expense of yourself. You must love yourself first, or you must understand what love actually is before you begin saying that mothers do this or fathers do that....love is many things to many people, the only truth being it should be given to ones self before being handed out to any undeserving brat or asshole inebriated on a street corner.
That just cheapens love. Selfless love is a myth...live in reality.
2006-10-14 18:32:02 · answer #2 · answered by G.B.A. 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because we Live on an Earth that has been Corrupted by Sin, Curse and the Devils.
Darkness is on the Earth.
It tries to Affect us.
It has had a Long Time Praticing on Human Beings to Perfect its Methods.
2006-10-14 18:13:50 · answer #3 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think youre wrong about the disloyal childern thing. its probably a lot more common than imaginable, or nowadays for sure.
2006-10-14 18:10:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please explain the difference between selfish love and selfless love. Or does love cover them both?
2006-10-14 18:14:33 · answer #5 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its instinct and intuition
2006-10-14 18:10:45 · answer #6 · answered by colodge_25 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋