ChaBella1 I just read an article on your site about Nichiren the Lover at Urth Caffe. It was a sweet article and I am happy to have found your site. The article once again opened up a subject I ponder much upon. In all the Buddhist sutras and treatises, goshos and major and lesser writings, we do not find this word 'love'. It does not exist in Buddhism.
Love is an oft misused word here at the Western world.
We use it to infer romantic love, lust, longing, compassion, even pity. But in the east there is no such thing. Buddhists have 'Jihi' which is compassion for all things. I have ever seen, Nichiren was somewhat akin to Quasimodo in appearance. No one talks about the physical desires of sages because they aren't supposed to have any, but he was a man and as such, Buddha or not, must have had to deal with these longings.