Unconditional Love and Actions

[wmw111]

Do we derive any benefits from this?

Any application of that in our daily lives that you can share? 

How can we make this motivation appear more and more in our daily lives and mind.

[Hot Spot]

Less stress for a start.  You don't have to work out for each situation whether it is beneficial to give love (ie not being calculative and checking if there is something in return).  Besides when you give unconditional love and actions based on compassion, there will be few who would actually take advantage of your kindness.  Your returns will be immense.  Your invisible benefits - positive karma will multiply.

[spiritnoname]

 Lots of benefit, if you have developed unconditional care then all manner of beings will come to help and support you in your activities, you'll have safety everywhere, you'll soon have no enemies.

[wmw111]

Spirit and Hot Spot is right.

However we want merits not exhaustible good karma

Any examples of application?

[spiritnoname]

 I don't claim to have unconditional love, but I can generate open heartedness, the distinction between myself and others is not as defined anymore so it's easy for me to give much of the time, so when opportunities present themselves I give food, money, and medicine to those who need it or ask for it with a lot of happiness and no regrets.  Daily I feed the birds, do practice, and I make time to talk to all sorts of people because my spiritual friends made time for me and helped me so much with their influence and example.

[seekingpurity]

Do we derive any benefits from this?

Any application of that in our daily lives that you can share? 

How can we make this motivation appear more and more in our daily lives and mind.

My understanding is I dont derive any benefit in my own mind from MY unconditional love because IM motivated by selfish minds day and night. But we get huge benefit from the unconditional love that other people have acted upon. For example all the Dharma teachings came from people generating it and acting upon it, the set up of our societies the good ideas came from moments of feeling love. So we derive these benefits. The benefit for ourself of successfully being able to develop love appear apparent when we feel moments of love & they are the happiest of our lives and we then infer that if we generate this all the time we will be happy all the time.

The questions I have are the struggles in my own mind with this topic, similar to your questions.
When I try to get more familiar with love something strange happens. At first it is exciting and new just like when we get a new pastime. But then my mind starts resisting as I go deeper into it. It is as if I only had a small karmic connection, I only did some tiny virtue in my previous life & I have used up that karma. Im like a car. In a past life I did a tiny action that made a connection with Buddhism. This was like getting a tiny amount of patrol. I then got the car of a human life. I can now build up a new collection of petrol that I will get in a future life by driving to garages. But for this life & this endeavour I only have the petrol I got so far. And the amount is so tiny. And Im always asking how can get some momentum when I can only get the karma from my previous life to ripen. if no merit ripens its like no petrol. The car chokes & strains. So when Im trying to generate love so I can make merit x multiple living beings I choke & strain. it doesnt come easy or naturally. This is an obstacle for me I would like advice on too.

I find I get a certain amount of petrol per day. It is very tiny. But if I rest it builds up. So thats what I do. Its not what I want to do. I want to do lots of practice every day. Blessings help a lot. Being in a blessed environement with blessed people. Being near sangha & teachers. Spending time with them. Then it is easier to get the experiences that are needed to make good karma for future lives.

[Blueberry]

Spirit and Hot Spot is right.

However we want merits not exhaustible good karma

Any examples of application?

For daily life ..maybe i can tell some example :

1. When we go to public rest room and find its running water tube there.. so our decision to close the tube and stop the waste water  then its unconditional love to our earth

2. When we walk in mall or shopping centre and we see small trash ( cud be used receipt, tissue or candy plastic..whatever) on floor... if we take a minute to put it then throw to trash bin....its unconditional love

3. When we walk behind  a couple whom  much busy hence didnt notice the dropped his shoe, we want to spend bit minute to call them or give shoe back...then its unconditional love

4. When i can give my movie ticket to stranger rather than call my distant family to collect the ticket or rather than fumming and tear the ticket as suddenly u cant make it to go to movie..

5. When i have time to  say thank you sincerely to office boy who finish clean up my room every morning or to our staff can finish their work even still need some revision here n there..

6. When we cud bit hold our rush to listen canteen aunty telling her story abt how messy today due to late vegie delivery..

errr.....like that maybe....

[Joey]

Do we derive any benefits from this?

Any application of that in our daily lives that you can share? 

How can we make this motivation appear more and more in our daily lives and mind.

I feel that we suffer less because we stop expecting others to repay us for what we did for them...no more dissapointments..how nice