Can love be taught, yes in terms of a reflex, a path of synapse firing, a desire, a need for satisfaction, fulfillment, stimulus, intensity of emotions. At a physical level that's what it is. At the spiritual level, it is like being before God and His beauty, it overwhelms. Now this last part, can that be taught?

To answer this question, I think one needs a clearer definition of love (see What is love?). If it is the "ultimate truth at the heart of creation," doesn't that imply love resides in each of us? If so, then perhaps a more appropriate question is whether the love in each of us can be re-awakened and if so how.

To answer this question, I think one needs a clearer definition of love (see What is love?). If it is the "ultimate truth at the heart of creation," doesn't that imply love resides in each of us? If so, then perhaps a more appropriate question is whether the love in each of us can be re-awakened and if so how.

I don't agree with Deepak Chopra. Love is not the root cause behind terrorism, its the fear of change or the fear of loosing. True Love knows no fear and neither terrorizes others. Can love be taught? As answered by the mystic Saint Rajinder Singh, 'Love can neither be taught, nor bought but can only be caught like an infection by those who become receptive'.

Dr. Chopra has been a teacher to me through his writings. I am in absolute agreement that love can be taught. By love, I refer to the concept of loving kindness espoused by Tibetan Buddhism and other thought traditions. I live my life by daily offering some personal form of the beautiful Hindu idea of "Namaste", loosely translated as "the devine in me recognizes the devine in you"; sometimes buying coffee and tea for those folks lined up behind me at a popular cafe, or giving a bookstore gift card to the cashier frantically working her register. The personal discipline guiding these gestures must be that there are no strings attached, no quid pro quo and are meant say to a fellow human being, "I appreciate you although I don’t know you. Please accept a small token of that appreciation given in humility." Sounds corny, perhaps IS corny, but it has been my daily practice going on several years. Now a cup of tea for free does not love decree, but it's a start.