is to love all things the true good path?

[MDL5]

To love all things does not mean what you think it means. Love is acceptance(genuine, not forced). Acceptance of self is the foundation for the following steps ahead to complete acceptance.

It doesn't mean your have to love the smell of farts, the aesthetics of warts or the sound of nails scraping against a blackboard.

You are the microcosm, a reflection of the macrocosm. Unblock the inner and the outer will pour in, clear as day.

i think people are confused, as u say love the smell of farts and the other person said love poisones foods, you do not "love" food you"like" the taste and even if i did love all deadly food it does not mean u hav to eat it! thats where the meaning of love is getting mixed and as far as smells go u can perfer a certain smell but just we need to try not to look at reasons not to love all living things it is better just to go with ur heart on the subject not the mind

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so if some1 were to say... cut off all of your limbs... &/or w/e horrific thing u can imagine... u feel u should love this, too? i can understand forgiving w/e evil is done to you... but loving it too? how? if u're claiming u love everything i'm not sure you're being honest with urself. do u love all foods? even poisonous ones?

Its interesting you bring up the particular example of someone cutting of all your limbs and how you should feel about this. In my younger days i read a lot of Theravada Buddhism and there is a particular text that speaks directly to this point and i figured i'd share it since i think its in line with the general trend of this thread. Even if i u dont feel it now, its still a noble ideal to strive towards, and like the passage says, something you should train towards, not an in-built response.

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/...n.html#saw
"Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves.

thats wat i mean!!! see that is the true meaning of love not loving farts or loving deadly foods or loving limbs being sawed off it is the pure emotion in your heart and it is the energy, i see how using the mind and searching for the awnser to hard can make the real message/concept is hard to see