RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thích Nhất Hạnh, Mudita, Sparknotes
RE103: LESSON 11: COURTLY LOVE, ROMANTICISM, AND WERTHER’S
STORY
SPARKNOTES WERTHERS STORY (it’s one of the books)
The specifics of Thich Nhat Hanh and Buddhist ideals of love
• ● Viatnamese zen master
• ● One of the foremost Buddhist teachers
• ● Teacher of mindfulness and meditation
• ● 4 elements of love
● Maitri: loving-kindness/ belovence
● The ability to bring joy and happiness to the person you love ● Karuna:
compassion
● The ability to ease the pain of another person ● Mudita: joy
● No joy - not true love ● Upeksha: equanimity or freedom
● Bring freedom to the person you love ● Mindfulness and loving kindness are not
separate qualities
● Mindfulness: incomplete without an infusion of metta
• ● Loving kindness is incomplete without mindfulness
• ● 4 mantras: “dear one, ...”
o ● I am here for you
o ● I know that you are here, and it makes me very happy
o ● know that you are suffering, that is why I am here for you
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● I am suffering, please help
• ● He reminds us that we have fear inside ourselves // we are afraid of
everything
• ● “The task of the meditator is not to chase away or to suppress the energy
of anger that is there but to invite another
energy that will be able to care for the anger.”
