Is compassion and love the same thing ?

[captainamerica]

I was contemplating on this and came across this doubt that I am unable to resolve on my own.Any help will be greatly appreciated :-) 

[ground]

In budddhism compassion is wishing that others are free from suffering and love is wishing them to have happiness.

[captainamerica]

1 hour ago, ground said:

In budddhism compassion is wishing that others are free from suffering and love is wishing them to have happiness.

Thank you for the insight and kind reply :-)

I thought about it and do think it is right from a perspective but I am not sure if it gives the whole picture view of it.

Edited November 20, 2018 by captainamerica

[ground]

2 hours ago, captainamerica said:

I thought about it and do think it is right from a perspective but I am not sure if it gives the whole picture view of it.

Go and let yourself be inspired by what other religions or ideologies have to say about compassion and love. This may accomplish "the whole picture" and if not then you have to decide for yourself. May you end up with certainty!

[Hellspeed]

14 hours ago, captainamerica said:

I was contemplating on this and came across this doubt that I am unable to resolve on my own.Any help will be greatly appreciated :-) 

No. Love is the harmony inside. Compassion is letting others copy your harmony and find themselves in their own harmony. 

[Strikr]

love can be a cold shower, litteraly.

[Joseph Maynor]

Here’s an essay I wrote recently:

Compassion is the effect of knowing the true Self.  And this comes from reducing ignorance.  Once ignorance is seen through it can be reduced and prevented.  Compassion is the prevention of suffering that is enabled by reducing your own ignorance and helping to reduce the ignorance of others.  Love is not really the issue it's compassion.  Love is a little too vague and ambiguous.  You can have love for many things.  But compassion is about reducing suffering caused by ignorance of illusion and otherwise.  Compassion is walking up to a person and saying "I think you're making a mistake and let me tell you why I think so."  So, I kind of feel like love is not quite right as the concept for Enlightenment, it's compassion that's more accurate.  It's once you know the truth you can reduce your own ignorance and the ignorance of others, which is compassion to yourself and compassion to others.

Edited November 21, 2018 by Joseph Maynor