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The powerful feelings that are hiding in your heart will find the freedom to come out of their hiding places if you remain physical, alert and playful. It is paradoxical that intensity arises from playfulness but paradox seems to be the nature of this great play.
" This existence is not a business, hence there is no purpose. It is sheer joy, playfulness, what the Hindus call leela. It is just delight in energy. Energy is there and energy is dancing and delighting. When you have energy you delight in it: you run, you sing, you dance, you swim, you play. Energy delights in expression."Osho, excerpted from The Secret of SecretsSaturday September 6, 2008 - 09:05am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for September 06, 2008
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Just when you aren't looking, your heart lights up and floods with feelings you had lost or forgotten. Look into the here and now. Looking in expectation only brings disappointment. Watch the mundane and be amazed as it slowly turns into the sacred.
"With a heart without limits, your love will flow to the whole existence; and it will not only beautify your master, it will beautify the whole reality that surrounds you. It will make every tree and every star enlightened to you. You will live in an enlightened world. That's what it means to be in the temple, to be in a sacred world. "Osho, excerpted from The RebelSaturday September 6, 2008 - 08:57am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for September 05, 2008
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Whatever you do, remember one thing:
out of fear you are not going to grow; you will only shrink and die.
Fear is in the service of death.
Mahavira is right. He makes fearlessness the fundamental of a religious person,
and I can understand what he means by fearlessness - that means dropping all armor.
A fearless person has everything that life wants to give to you as a gift.
Now there is no barrier: you will be showered with gifts, and whatever you will be doing you will have a strength, a power, a certainty,
a tremendous feeling of authority.OshoFriday September 5, 2008 - 10:28am (EDT) Permanent Link | 1 Comment - Entry for September 05, 2008
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THREE QUESTIONS...
QUESTION 2
“I have fallen in love and suffered much. After listening to you I have felt unwilling to let go of the dream that my love affair will not ultimately lead to satisfaction. How can I go beyond this attachment that is so rich, yet so painful?”
ANSWER. (Part 5)
…Up to now, only two experiments have been done. One was of indulgence, which has failed-which is being tried again by the West and is going to fail, utterly fail. And the other was that of renunciation-which has been tried by the East, and also in the West by Christianity. That too has failed, utterly failed. A new experiment is needed, urgently needed. Man is in a great turmoil, in a great confusion. Where to go? What to do with oneself?
I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it. While making love, meditate too. While making love, be prayerful. Love should not be just a physical act; pour your soul into it. Then slowly, slowly the pain starts disappearing and the energy contained in the pain is released and becomes more and more a benediction. Then agony is transformed into ecstasy.
You say, "I have fallen in love and suffered much." You are blessed. The really poor people are those who have never fallen in love and never suffered. They have not lived at all. To fall in love and to suffer in love is good. It is passing through fire; it purifies, it gives you insight, it makes you more alert. This is the challenge to be accepted. Those who don't accept this challenge remain spineless.
You say, "I have fallen in love and suffered much. After listening to you I felt unwilling to let go of the dream that my love affair will not ultimately lead to satisfaction." I am not telling you to drop your love, I am simply telling you a fact-that it will not bring you to ultimate contentment. It is not in my hands to change the nature of things. I am simply stating a fact. If it were in my hands I would have liked you to have ultimate contentment in love. But it doesn't happen. What can we do? Two plus two are four. It is a fundamental law of life that love brings you to deeper and deeper dissatisfactions. Ultimately love brings you to such a discontent that you start longing for the ultimate beloved, God, you start searching for the ultimate love affair.
Sannyas is an ultimate love affair; it is the search for God, the search for truth. It is possible only when you have failed many times, loved and suffered, and each suffering has brought you more and more consciousness, more and more understanding. One day the recognition arrives that love can give you a few glimpses-and those glimpses are good, and those glimpses are glimpses of God-but it can only give you glimpses; more than that is not possible. But that too is too much; but without those glimpses you will never seek and search God.
Those who have not loved and suffered never become seekers of God-they cannot; they have not earned that worth, they have not become worthy. It is the sole right of the lover one day to start searching for the ultimate beloved.
Love, and love more deeply. Suffer, and suffer more deeply. Love totally and suffer totally, because this is how the impure gold passes through fire and becomes pure gold. I am not saying to you, escape from your love affairs: go deeper into them. I help my sannyasins to go into love, because I know love ultimately fails. And unless they know by their own experience that love ultimately fails, their search for God will remain phony.
[From The Book of WisdomOshoFriday September 5, 2008 - 10:24am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Entry for September 04, 2008
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Life is literally taking you by both hands, opening you up and inviting you to expand and play. Let a little more power into your heart. This isn't 'power over' or 'control', it is nothing more than a higher current. Even without invitation, increase is coming your way.
"Once you know you are not accidental to existence, once you know you are existence itself, life takes a tremendous quantum leap. You are no longer confined to the body, you are no longer confined to the small mind. You become vast and infinite, and only in this vastness and infinity can you rejoice, can you be blissful"Osho, excerpted from I Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now HereThursday September 4, 2008 - 11:40am (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
