The Buddha's Teachings on Love and Nature

Each emotion arising out of particular conditions comes into being, expresses its own nature, and passes away. We don't see when we're caught up in it that it is love that loves. It's fear that fears. It's joy that joys. It's anger that angers. So one way of beginning to break this very deeply habituated pattern of identification with them is to see repeatedly, over and over again, their impermanent condition, nature. The Buddha spoke very directly to this. He was a very direct teaching.