I just wanted to chime in and say that Jeremy Graves’ post was one of the better posts I’ve seen regarding Awakening on any internet forum.
I’d also like to say that love being an affective outcome of practicing the brahmavirahas is pretty easy to understand, but it is not clear why love is an affective outcome from the cessation of craving. And I think this confuses a lot of people, myself included. I can see how the cessation of craving leads to immense peacefulness, but the connection to ‘love’ is a bit fuzzy. Jeremy, do you know why, perhaps from the standpoint of cognitive science why this connection exists?