Love, attachment, and desire in Buddhism

<p>Attachment is all about me and what I can get from you, and love is all about what I can give or do for you. There are&nbsp;<a href="https://kadampalife.org/2016/10/22/love-and-affection-according-to-buddhism/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">three kinds or levels of love</a>, affectionate love, cherishing love, and wishing love. Briefly,&nbsp;<em>affectionate love</em>is just liking people, having a warm, fuzzy feeling, the way our mom feels when she hasn&rsquo;t seen us for awhile, just unconditionally delighted to see us without that needy, &ldquo;I want YOU to do something for ME.&rdquo; On the basis of affection, if we think about how kind someone is, we come to&nbsp;<em>cherish</em>&nbsp;them &mdash; we find them special, we want to take care of them, their happiness matters. So because we cherish this person, our question is &ldquo;Are they happy?&rdquo; The answer is usually, &ldquo;Well, they could be a lot happier,&rdquo; and we wish for them to have what they need, what they want, to be happy now and always. This is&nbsp;<em>wishing love</em>.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@lunakadampa/love-attachment-and-desire-in-buddhism-983c97980fad"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>