How LOVE has been CORRUPTED and HOW TO FIX IT
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- What is the true meaning of love, and how has it evolved-and sometimes been corrupted-over the ages? In this video I share my interpretation of love’s transformation through key historical eras: the pre-modern age, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, and the Romantic movement.
For those seeking spiritual growth and self-improvement, understanding love’s shifting meaning can offer deep insights into human connection and emotional fulfillment. In the pre-modern era, love was entwined with duty, faith, and community and linked with the Divine Love of God, while the Enlightenment redefined it through reason, individuality, and intellectual connection. The Renaissance celebrated the passion and beauty of love, while the Romantic era elevated emotion, longing, and idealized relationships.
How have these shifts influenced modern relationships, and has our understanding of love been enriched-or corrupted-by these cultural changes? This discussion examines the timeless wisdom and challenges hidden in the history of love, helping you reflect on its deeper spiritual and personal significance in your life.
Whether you're exploring self-love, improving relationships, or delving into spirituality and human connection I am interested in your ideas about love so share your thoughts on love’s evolution in the comments!
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Proof that drinking good tea gives you galaxy brain
Yes sirrr!!!
Galaxy Brain - love this term - I reckon right now I am trying to inspire Earth brain but Galaxy brain is something to aspire to!
I was reminded of the book, "The Four Loves" by C.S. Lewis. One qualm I have is your allusion to an inauthentic experience or feeling as some sort of justification for divorce or breakup (if in a long term committed relationship). Feelings can be and often are temporary and acting upon them hastily can rob us of the greater gifts that come with a longterm commitment. Love is in some respects also a choice. I believe a true justification for divorce for example, would only be one that agape, love, actually demands such as protecting a child from abuse. Infidelity in a relationship could also be a reasonable justification because the bond of faithfulness and trust that was once there has been damaged, however even then it is possible (though very difficult) to repair that damaged relationship. Anyhow, I have prayed for you and your family over the years. I have been watching your channel for over ten years now, and I really want you to know that God loves you. Wishing you so many blessings this year from across the world.
Yes I agree with you - committed Love is a more long-term journey that must be able to withstand the swirling changes of emotions and is a choice to which there is dedication and learning and self-transformation in order to reach higher levels of love and reap its rewards rather than simply instinctive reactions and actions. This becomes impossible without both people invested in that process and I think that this wisdom needs to be taught and where the purely subjective/emotion -led concepts of the romantic movement have failed us and many relationships. There are too many people that believe that love should involve some natural and instinctive connection without the necessary lessons and struggles over the years. Many thanks for your love and prayers over the decade - it is so very touching to know that we are so blessed by the intentions and prayers of people like yourself.
Thank you for sharing this talk with us, all your talks: your enlightenment shines. “Love is the engine that drives creation and propels evolution….” Amen! Oh, and Don . . . I love you ❤
One of the best books for grasping meaning of love is The Art of Loving from Erich Fromm, I wish everyone would read it.
I think love is more to be felt than intellectualized; but if somehow intellectualization has to be done, I find your reflection on love to be as elegant as intellect can go (the trinity visual is especially enlightening!)
For me, love happens when there's a natural resonance and an intuitive flow of energy within oneself, with others, and with what one does. It's in the moments when I'm so totally in the now that even self-awareness dissolves. It can be in sipping a cup of tea, humming spontaneously from the heart, engaging in an intimate conversation, or working on a passion project, etc.
Thanks much for your sharing. Happy Year of the Snake from Shanghai : )
Happy Snake year to you too. Love is certainly alive in a state of awareness and timelessness.
I love these talks Don. If you were a philosophy professor at a university, I'd be in your class 💯 and we'd drink good tea the entire time!
Thanks although I would be the student too!
My girlfriend and I drink tea regularly and express a degree of the wonder you’ve mentioned here. I’m starting to believe we are all just rambling tea addicts, and I will sip to that!
Don, you are a gem. Thank you for all your hard work, know how and devotion. Chapeau! Watched this whilst drinking your delicious Frozen Summit. With gratitude and admiration, love from a fellow tea head in Northern Rivers, NSW.
Big love to you and thanks for watching.
Hi Don, I haven't left a comment on your channel before, but I almost religiously drink tea to your videos. I get a few giggles here and there from your eccentric descriptions of teas, but I also find that I truly enjoy these more contemplative videos. Would you consider doing a weekly/monthly release of videos like these? You have a gift for speaking and providing a wonderful transition from a simpler definition to truly digging into the deeper meanings behind our thoughts. Wonderful video as always, cheers!
Hi and thanks for the first comment and for sharing your sessions with my videos. I really would be excited about making more videos like these and I am trying to squeeze more into my saturated schedule without sacrificing the importance of family and resting. I doubt that it would be possible to do video like this regularly but I tend to go off on little philosophical tangents (albeit in a very informal and unstructured way) on my other channel vlogs ua-cam.com/video/I-MdkXPvmkE/v-deo.htmlsi=GX7cnsi4smNJCaD6
Cheers, Don! Thank you for this lucid treatise and Happy New Year to you and your family! Your triangle has certainly provided the - for me - new angle on love, which I was hoping for. It will be interesting to bring character, personality and social/cultural influences of the players into the diagram.
Thanks Beth. Yes feel free to add flourishes to the structure and see what you come up with for your own approach to love.
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Thank you!
I think the 3rd part is beauty!
Excellent video. Thank you!
Thanks for watching.
To will the good of the other, and what is the good of the other? It is that the other learns and grows with minimal suffering.
From Chinese medicine, to tea, to transcendental relationship coach? I LOVE it. Thank you for this thoughtful, informative and deep understanding. This makes so much sense. You really solved a very difficult question here! And with such eloquent presentation. Having had a child last year I am so lucky to know what you mean when you talk about that specific love. You really just don’t know HOW expansive love is till you have that guardian relationship.
Yes that's a pretty good definition of GOOD
So very true - it is a transformative and transcendent love
@MeiLeaf Love is a heartfelt wish for your daughter and other people, and what better wish is there than for others to learn, grow and for them to flourish? Good I define as something that benefits others, and love is certainly good. Love (wishing others well) primes our attitudes and our actions for the better.
25:28 What is the third point couples need to complete the trinity of love? A cat. Cat is the answer. All You Need Is Cat. It Must Be Cat.
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Wonderful
One of your best New Year's speeches yet! There's a lot of truth here, Don. I wonder how close or far away you are from the Truth, Jesus Christ. I think you must know, at some level, that the miracle of life you spoke of is not the result of random chance but of intelligent design. I pray you keep searching till, with enlightened eyes and an open heart find Him who loves you, Celine, and Aiyana so very much. Happy New Year!
I am fascinated and have been trying to learn more about Jesus in recent months. His message was revolutionary yet timeless and represents a perfect love.
@@MeiLeaf That is wonderful. Specific words and phrases you used in this speech made me think you had been. If I may, I humbly recommend reading the entire Gospel of John. The thesis of that account of Jesus's life is found in chapter 20, verse 31. John 14:6 is very important and, perhaps most fitting given the topic that led us here, the well-known John 3:16.
"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not." Friedrich Nietzsche
Hehe or as they are in that slice of time perhaps.
I was distracted the whole time by that adorable pot. May i ask what kind of pot this is? To my eye it seems to be clay. Is it a white duanni by chance?
Ah this is a pot which we were thinking of buying in made from Dehua Clay but the price was too high in my opinion. We will keep searching for similar ones though.
Great episode. You should ask if youtuber Martin Faulks wants to make some philosophy discussion episode with you! Perhaps invite him for a cup of tea :)
I will watch some of his stuff thanks
"wonder of Being" sounds like Heidegger.. this structure that u set up is the fundamental grounds that forms the basis of reality & inter-subjectivities. this Being/Nature (Spinoza) is not a thing/entity but can be construed as Sense (Deleuze/Merleau-Ponty)
love as a force of attraction against disorder is basically Empedocles metaphysics of love/strife as fundamental forces that shape elementary units.
overall, i agree with most of whats said except that i think romantic love is qualitative and quantitatively different from sexual love, both of which are of higher intensities than other forms of love (parent-child, friendship, etc.). trying to categorize them all under the same Love is disingenuous, and takes away the uniqueness of each.
my definition of love is more Deleuzian - as partial objects, to love someone is to immerse oneself into the multiple signs (and worlds) emitted by the object of love. since we are never whole but a bundle of larval-selfs/subjects (Hume) - to love someone is not to complete a lack (contra Lacan), but to allow the drives to interact with one another in a vast confusion of desire (Nietzsche). how many times have we willingly visited the same places our beloved visits, eat the same food as what our beloved likes to eat, etc.?
A lot to unpack and learn here thank you!
as someone who's on the aromantic/asexual spectrum, this is a very interesting viewpoint
i was facepalming and cringing at the same time at the “romantic” portion, at romantics obviously. not to monologue…
Dharma talks + tea, a perfect combo. I'm getting so much inspiration at the moment from CS Lewis's book The Four Loves, which you don't have to be a Christian to enjoy and learn from (I'm not). Also would recommend on this topic the four lectures Lewis did on the The Four Loves in 1958, which are little gems of philosophical clarity and insight, even if the plummy voice gets on my wick. The illustrations done for these make the experience of watching/listening to these videos, an utter delight.
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CS Lewis certainly has his merits and high points, but on the other hand he often slopes down to blabbering quackery. From romantic appeals to outright idiotic fallacious thinking, he‘s done it all. Compared to Tolkien, i always found Lewis‘ imagery to cringy and blatantly obvious. At times, it really feels like preaching through inventing overt fantasy stories.
I consider his infamous „Liar, lunatic or lord“ the all-time low of 20th century philosophy.
@@derfuzzy8854 I really haven’t explored much of his work at all and maybe held a view of him much like yours, but was pleasantly surprised by those lectures. I’m sure he’s not especially philosophically rigourous, but for some reason these have arrived at the right time for me in my life.
Thanks for sharing - the voice is from another era but the message is fascinating!
She made you sleep on the couch again?
Ha yeah you got it man
I’ll have what he’s having. 😊🫖🍵
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