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Love is a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment to a person, animal, or thing. It is expressed in many forms, encompassing a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, or the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.

Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish, loyal, and benevolent concern for the good of another"—and its vice representing a moral flaw akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, oneself, or animals. In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships, and owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love has been postulated to be a function that keeps human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.

Ancient Greek philosophers identified six forms of love: familial love (storge), friendly love or platonic love (philia), romantic love (eros), self-love (philautia), guest love (xenia), and divine or unconditional love (agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: fatuous love, unrequited love, empty love, companionate love, consummate love, infatuated love (limerence), amour de soi, and courtly love. Numerous cultures have also distinguished Ren, Yuanfen, Mamihlapinatapai, Cafuné, Kama, Bhakti, Mettā, Ishq, Chesed, Amore, charity, Saudade (and other variants or symbioses of these states), as culturally unique words, definitions, or expressions of love in regard to specified "moments" currently lacking in the English language.

The colour wheel theory of love defines three primary, three secondary, and nine tertiary love styles, describing them in terms of the traditional color wheel. The triangular theory of love suggests intimacy, passion, and commitment are core components of love. Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.

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April 14th, 2018, Serial No. 04429

Wisdom, Love, Attachment
Apr 14 2018

October 13th, 2012, Serial No. 03999

Practice, Delusion, Love
Oct 13 2012

November 2011 talk, Serial No. 03906

Pain, Love, Wisdom
Nov 2011

November 2011 talk, Serial No. 03905

Love, Letting Go, Addiction
Nov 2011

January 10th, 2010, Serial No. 03704

Karmic Consciousness, Consciousness, Love
Jan 10 2010

Endless Wonderment in Zen Practice

Buddha, Precepts, Love
Nov 16 2009

April 9th, 2009, Serial No. 03647

Attachment, Study, Love
Apr 09 2009

March 15th, 2009, Serial No. 03641

Love, resistance, Pain
Mar 15 2009

September 20th, 2008, Serial No. 03590

Love, Stillness, Gratitude
Sep 20 2008

Practicing the Four Frames of Mindfulness as Gates to Totality 

Love, Work, Practice
Sep 06 2008
Morning
No Abode Hermitage

July 29th, 2008, Serial No. 03580

Soto Zen, Love, Compassion
Jul 29 2008

July 26th, 2008, Serial No. 03579

Love, Pain, Patience
Jul 26 2008

November 18th, 2007, Serial No. 03498

Time, Love, Work
Nov 18 2007

November 16th, 2007, Serial No. 03492

Separation, Love, Meditation
Nov 16 2007

October 22nd, 2007, Serial No. 03484

Time, Practice, Love
Oct 22 2007

Responding with Openness to Love and Hate

Serial: BZ-01445

And Other Opposites, Saturday Lecture

Love, Hate, Composure, Hate, Teacher-and-Student, Attachment, Precepts, Equanimity,...
Jun 30 2007
Berkeley Zen Center

June 19th, 2006, Serial No. 03319

Pain, Love, Buddha
Jun 19 2006

June 16th, 2006, Serial No. 03313

Compassion, Love, Wisdom
Jun 16 2006

March 26th, 2006, Serial No. 03295

Love, Compassion, War
Mar 26 2006

November 13th, 2005, Serial No. 03255

Love, Meditation, Buddha
Nov 13 2005

October 30th, 2005, Serial No. 03246

Buddha, Time, Love
Oct 30 2005

October 30th, 2005, Serial No. 03244

Love, Buddha, Practice
Oct 30 2005

July 2002 talk, Serial No. 03069

Samadhi, Love, Time
Jul 2002

July 2002 talk, Serial No. 03072

Buddha, Time, Love
Jul 2002

January 27th, 2002, Serial No. 03049

Samadhi, Love, Practice Period
Jan 27 2002

Our Hero

Lotus Sutra, Love, Buddha
Jul 04 2001
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

How Love Drives the World

Serial: BZ-00122B

Saturday Lecture

Love, Emotions, Hate, Anger, Buddha Nature, War, Ego, Attachment, Peace, Cultivation...
Nov 04 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

June 26th, 2000, Serial No. 02975

Love, Pain, Patience
Jun 26 2000

June 15th, 2000, Serial No. 02973

Consciousness, Love, Study
Jun 15 2000

May 19th, 2000, Serial No. 02969

Love, Pain, Ego
May 19 2000

1998, Serial No. 02902

Anger, Love, Lovingkindness
1998

1998, Serial No. 02901

Love, Anger, Compassion
1998

1998, Serial No. 02903

Practice, Time, Love
1998

1998, Serial No. 02897

Love, Happiness, Pain
1998

October 12th, 1997, Serial No. 02876

Buddha, Love, Zazen
Oct 12 1997

Presence in Anxiety: Mindful Decision Dynamics

Time, Love, Happiness
1996

Happiness and Love

Serial: BZ-00948B

Saturday Lecture

Happiness, Love, New Year, Happiness, Liberation, Equanimity, Attachment, Buddha Mind...
Jan 07 1995
Berkeley Zen Center

Nagarajuna and Dogen on Buddhanature

Serial: BZ-00659B

Happiness, Reward, and Love, One-Day Sitting

Buddha Nature, Happiness, Love, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Birth-and-Death, Daily Life...
Nov 07 1993
Berkeley Zen Center

The Hermitage of the Heart

Serial: NC-00040

Part of "The Hermitage of the Heart"

Archival Photo

OSB Cam, Love, Time, Culture
1993
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New Camaldoli Hermitage

Buddhist Perspective on Love and Relationships

Serial: BZ-00394A

Sesshin Day 3

Love, Passions, Desire, Emotions, Liberation, New Year, Hate, Teacher-and-Student,...
Sep 03 1984
Berkeley Zen Center

On Love: The Four Unlimited Abodes

Serial: BZ-00001B

Saturday Lecture

Love, Enemies, Equanimity, Emotions, Lovingkindness, Happiness, training, Politics,...
May 21 1983
Berkeley Zen Center

Land, Suffering, and Spiritual Synergy

Sangha, Thoroughness, Ego, Love, Building
Nov 04 1979

Zen Serenity in Wild Places

Ordinary Mind, Breath, Mindfulness, Love, Samadhi
Feb 16 1979

Living the Bodhisattva Path

Intention, Love, Vow, Big Mind, Paramitas
Dec 07 1978

Naming the Essence of Zen

Ceremony, Chanting, Anger, Continuous Practice, Love
Nov 17 1978

October 31st, 1978, Serial No. 00589

Lineage, Practice Period, Dokusan, Love
Oct 31 1978

Zen Paradoxes in Daily Life

Zendo, Concentration, Love, Bodhidharma, Patience
Apr 02 1978

Zen, Love, and Practice

Love, Happiness, Buddha Nature, Ceremony, Posture
Mar 30 1978

November 5th, 1976, Serial No. 00042

Community, Right Effort, Money, Love, Commitment
Nov 05 1976

Zen Effort and Mindful Presence

Gutei, Mindfulness, Concentration, Evil, Love
Dec 06 1975

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