Yo Labastaro-jyu, The excerpt is actually from the preface of the book. Anyway, it's refreshing to get back to the original topic. Thank you, also for the link to J. Krishnamurti's wonderful scrutiny on love. It's obvious that I was meaning, as you so well put, a "thoughtless love", an "effortless love" described by J. Krishnamurti. However, my objective (in my book) was not to conform it. It was the opposite. I was testing (of course, fictionally) whether an "effortful love" can lead to "effortless love" or at least if they can exist in a duality. In that sense, I was scrutinizing J. Krishnamurti's notion of love. As for other philosophers' notions of love, I would not dare to compare. I am not talking about "compassionate love" or "divine love" at all. My love is raw, worldly, sensual, passionate, romantic and, most important of all, SELF-SERVING. Hope that answers your query. Thank you once again for bringing this up. Nepe