Christ & Buddha: Love or Detachment?

The Buddha teaches detachment – Christ teaches love. Who should we listen to? Can we reconcile these two teachings? What do love and detachment even mean?

These questions lead us into the heart of the Buddhist and the Christian tradition. Indeed, they lead us back into our own hearts. Even, if you will, into the heart of God.

In this video, we explore the types of love (sadism, narcissism, personal love, true love, and detachment) and how they reveal themselves in Christian and Buddhist scripture. Our discussion takes us to questions about the nature of the self, the problem of evil and suffering, and the parallels between Christianity and Buddhism.

#buddhism #christianity #love #detachment #philosophy #wisdom #rligion #spirituality #psychology #buddha

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📚 Recommended Reading

▶ The Art of Loving (Erich Fromm)
▶ On Detachment (Meister Eckhart)
▶ What the Buddha Taught (Walpola Rahula Thero)

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🎶 Music used

1. original S2S music based on Brian Eno
5. The Courier Walks Softly - Fallout - New Vegas (edited)
6. Videotape - Radiohead (reversed)
13. Mahler again

Check out these artists, especially the brilliant @RMSounds

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⌛ Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
01:23 Christ
04:46 Buddha
10:25 Types of Love
10:55 Narcissistic Love
12:45 Personal Love
15:46 True Love
20:15 Spectrum of Love
23:46 Christ vs Buddha on Love & Detachment
27:17 Sadism
29:28 Detachment
36:36 Conclusion

[KatieAnneN]

The word “detachment” is so often misunderstood in this context. Truthfully, when we detach from our own ego / selfish / prideful nature, our love becomes much more deep and profound. 🙏🏻💕 Detachment is not about not caring, or being distant. It’s about caring enough to detach from that which does not serve us nor others.

[jamisedenari]

Loving someone without attachment is true love. Don't cling to anyone. Let it express as is. Don't be attached to the idea of them or what they do for you. This goes back to the teachings on emptiness.

[kastenolsen]

You can have detachment and still love. Love without becoming attached.

[aleonyohan]

To me, love is the combination of Fascination and compassion. I am completely fascinated and thankful for my existence, therefore I show compassion, tolerance, and understanding to everything else that exists. From a flea, to my fellow humans. From a grain of sand, to a majestic Mountain. We are all a collection of molecules and everything is a piece of a grand puzzle. This puzzle is not static, but very dynamic. Be a good puzzle piece and help others to find their place in this fabulous universe. To me that is love. Doing my part to alleviate suffering, that is love.

[scrumbobulus]

I’ve always hyper focused on the worst aspects of christianity, but today you’ve opened my eyes. thank you for this.

[lectrix]

As a person that has in his youth searched through New age mysticism, then eastern religions, Buddhism, and finally after going through many science, philosophy, psychology classes as an adult finally settled on Christianity (as embodied by Jesus) as my most satisfactory unifying world view, I find this video to be incredibly thought provoking. A tremendous unification of these ideas. Very beautifully articulated. I often struggle to articulate how all my previous experiences into spiritually harmonically resonate into one another like a fractal, or like music, or a spectrum of light. Your treatise on this topic is one of the closest I have come to the view I have come to hold as a synthesis of my life experiences and exposure to these different paths of inquiry.

[mindfulkayaker]

Thank you, For me when Jesus taught to love God and others he meant that for him love is the absence of a separated self in such a way that the terms “l” “God” and “Neighbor” are the same Self. Similarly when the Buddha taught detachment he also meant the absence of an individual separated “Self” and the unity of All beings in the “Emptiness” of ideologies, religions and personal desires. Exactly the same teaching, Even, they were not two different spiritual teachers but the same Universal Consciousness speaking through two different mouths in two different times, cultures and places.

[martina]

Since my mother passed away, I have her in me. She is me and I am her. I know that because I do spontaneously what she would have done.and I feel whole the first time in my life. From your video I have learnt that my experience correponds to the concept of true love. Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your videos!

[elenashtereva]

I cannot be more grateful to have the chance to grow with you and to share our life journey - both inward and outward. Thank you for being, and for letting me be.
Always by your side ❤

[jonathantan]

Both are about love. Buddhism is about great compassion love to all beings instead of personal love. Detach to personal love because it doesn't last. Hope I make sense. Namo Buddhaya.

[vaccasindharmacari]

Thanks for all your inspiring investigative videos, much appreciated.
I think the Buddha taught non-attachment rather than detachment, the cultivation of inter being rather than alienation

[Walkerbtween]

There was a book out about 30 or so years ago titled "A Drop of Water, " I believe, or something along those lines. It was a collaborative work done by a priest who quit the Catholic church to become a Buddhist monk and a female Buddhist monk who left her order and became a Catholic nun. It's content remains with me after all these years, and well worth the time to try and find and read.

[mudan]

thank you for your beautiful video. My understanding is love and attachment are not the same thing. If you love someone, set them free. Smothering doesn't mean love. co-dependancy doesn't equal love. love is letting people follow their own path

[QuantumlyILL]

Love & Detachment has been the main topic amongst my friends and I recently. This was a fresh take on the entire thing and I can't wait to incorporate this perspective. Secondly, I have been trying to show everyone who comes to me with suffering about just how interesting light is. I point them to the simple fact that our eyes don't perceive light as it travels. Darkness is an illusion created by our vision. In reality light is flooding every part of this universe. I love how you then tie that into our egos being the prism that separates the white light into color. Profound. Thank you.

[collinsharrelson]

I love this thread! You guys are the best people! I know that not only because of what you’ve written but just the fact that you’re interested in this subject tells so much about you. I don’t like to associate with people who are confused but wish I could meet each and every one of you! This reminds me of a quote “He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”

Gautama Buddha

[eastwood-grze]

I do not know your name Seeker, but I wanted to say that your channel and your videos have been such an incredible Boon and blessing to my life.
“I” can’t thank you enough! For me it all started to come together with the first video you released. The information in that video kept worming its way through my head slowly over the months and coalesced for me finally during this video (and other real life experiences). It all snapped together like a water bottle that flash freezes, like a bullet train that pushes you into the back of your seat from acceleration, and you keep thinking to yourself “there’s no way it can get faster than this!” But that’s exactly what it keeps doing, it never stops accelerating.
“My” mind is spinning and reeling and I have you to thank for getting me started on this journey.
God bless you sir, may you achieve never ending happiness and enlightenment!

[andysux]

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[WanderingWonders]

Thank you for making this video. ♥
I have lately been fascinated at the overlap and universality found amongst various faiths once a practitioner reaches the more "mystical" levels of practice. The themes of minimizing the ego and realizing that one is really a part of an interconnected whole is a thread that ties a lot of faiths together in a beautiful way. I have been exploring Buddhism lately and your videos on those topics have been very useful, but videos like this remind me that my Christian roots still have depth and value in some of the teachings.

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[angiedecanales]

Detachment, in this context, serves as the exercise to cultivate within us the capacity for unconditional love—the meeting ground where paradoxes converge. True, experienced, and applied unconditional love liberates you; it may indeed be the necessary cost for acquiring genuine freedom. Upon reaching this state, you reconnect with unity consciousness, adorned with a subtly geometrically shaped body, poised to usher in a new, evolved interconnectedness among us.

REMEMBER: EVOLVE, LOVE, SERVE, TRANSCEND.

With deep appreciation and gratitude for compiling such profoundly inspiring content 🤍🙏🏻
Angie De Canales