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of the Dharmakāya which is the norm of existence and the reason of being. The mission of love is ennobled and fulfilled in its true sense when we come to the faith that says "thy will be done.” Love without this resignation to the divine ordinance is merely another form of egoism; the root is already rotten, how can its trunk, stems, leaves and flowers make a veritable growth ?"
Love in order to be purified and ennobled has to be freed from the limitations of a narrow personality and its selfishness. Suzuki criticises selfish love and says that love in its pure state is possible only when it is freed from its narrowness and selfishness. He writes —“Those who wish to see nothing but an utter barrenness of heart after the annihilation of egoism, are much mistaken in their estimation of human nature. For they think its animation comes from selfishness, and that, all forms of activity in our life are propelled simply by the desire to preserve self and the race. They therefore, naturally shrink from the doctrine that teaches that all things worldly are empty, and that there is no such thing as egosubstance whose immortality is so much coveted by most people. But the truth is, the spring of love does not live in the idea of self, but in its removal. For the human heart, being a reflection of the Dharmakāya, which is love and intelligence, recovers, its intrinsic power and goodness, only when the veil of ignorance and egoism is cast aside. The animation, energy, strenuousness which were shown by a
Suzuki D. T. : Outlines of Mahāyāna Buddhism, p. 369. A 13
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