I know am going town regret doing this but here I go.

@Tycho, does love really exist ? Is it comprehensible or even describable ?

Does it evoke a discernible pattern of behaviour ? Can we analyze it further or is it just an emotion that defies rational examination ?

The anticipation of regret is called fear, and for the fearful love can't exist. That is, it becomes difficult to find and experience.

Yet there's a science of love. Describable to the smallest detail. Beyond emotion, to the point of indifference.

Allow me to illustrate with a story. There once was this Zen monk who was taken by people to be so pious. But one day the neighbor's daughter became pregnant and upon interrogation she said that it was the monk that had impregnated her. When the parents went to him, he just said, 'is that so?' And took the child to his care. After some time, the girl was filled with guilt and decided to say the truth. It was a fisherman's child. Up to now the villagers had shunned the monk for his immorality, and the parents were so full of guilt and rushed to the monk.

'Is that so?' The monk asked again and let the child, the parents, the villagers, his ego, go.

The monk understood the science of love.

In the height of love, it's easy to see what heaven and hell are.

The body, like the flower, is soon gone to be replaced with another. But love goes beyond the body. So does hell. The former is the fire of life burning without end, yet it's effect is ineffable joy, and peace. The latter is the fire of life met with repression, and anger, and confusion yet burning with no end.

Before stepping into the grave, the die is already cast. Heaven and hell are domains of the 'living' -in the most obvious sense of the term.

Love is an ecstasy that kills our brain cells and weakens our ability to see and act rationally.

True. Love is irrational, that's why it has no fear. Rationality is about fear. Holding back. Putting up barriers. I know of no greater evil than pure rationality.