What is true love?

If it is true love, it brings a lot of happiness. If you are unable to make the other person happy, that is not love. It will make you suffer and make the other person suffer as well.

True love is the capacity to offer happiness.

If it is true love, it can help remove suffering and transform suffering in yourself and the other person. If you are unable to transform and take care of the suffering within you and also in the other person, that is not true love.

True love is to be cultivated by both people.

If it is true love, it brings joy to both people. If you make the other person cry all the time and you yourself cry all the time, that is not true love.

True love brings smiles to both people.

If it is true love, it does not discriminate. It does not separate. You cannot say, “That’s your problem.” Your problem is my problem. My suffering is your suffering.

True love is inclusive and inseparable.

In this day and age, love has become something many crave for yet never get. Loneliness looms as we sit in parties surrounded by many or even by the side of someone we thought we love.

Because love has become transactional.

Love has become conditional.

Love has become skin deep and momentary.

Indeed true love is hard to come by these days. But true love can be cultivated.

Especially if you exist now as a human being.

Capable of love and be loved.