That breakups can be horrifyingly painful isn’t a secret to people who have gone through one. The amount of suffering some people experience after a breakup is a symptom that something about this situation isn’t quite right.

From a Buddhist point of view, the breakup itself isn’t the problem, because losing the people that we meet in our lifetime is a natural thing, as it’s part of the ways of an impermanent universe. The problem lies in the way we approach the idea of love, which is mainly characterized by desire and attachment.

But true love, in the Buddhist sense, has very little to do with attachment and desire. Love shouldn’t hurt. Instead, it should be a blissful experience that benefits all people involved.

When we suffer from a breakup there’s been too much attachment involved, to a point that we began to feel dependent on the person we’re connected with, thinking that we need this person to be happy. So, to some extent, we can compare ourselves with addicts who are separated from their drugs.

But, there’s hope. We can build attachments, but we can free ourselves from them as well. Freedom from attachment, and certain desires, lies at the heart of the Buddhist path, which aims for enlightenment from the suffering of life.

This video explores Buddhist teachings that can help us cope with and prevent a painful breakup.

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