When she looks on you with longing eyes, she is like a heroin addict, ogling her white powder with eyes of burning love. What is love if not this?
The cancer of love
The universal catch-cry is: "The most important thing in life is love." What this really means is: "The most important thing in life is that which makes me feel most important."
Most people (and who are not "most people") do not even realize they are dying of disease. They see their human love as a virtue, rather than a cancer.
The first of the four Buddhist noble truths is "the recognition of ignorance." However, in failing to uncover the truth about their greatest joy - I am speaking of love - Buddhists fail to realize even this first and essential truth.
It is not by chance I entitled this collection of writings "Poison for the heart."