Osho on Love

Osho – Love is the ultimate godly experience

Osho on Love Godly Experience

Osho – Love is the ultimate godly experience. Love proves that existence is not without meaning, that life has significance. Except for love there is no proof for life’s significance. If one has not experienced love one will feel meaningless, accidental, just driftwood, at the mercy of unknown, unconscious, natural forces. That’s how materialists look [...]

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Osho on Sex and Love – Sex has to become a meditation

Osho on Sex and Love

Osho – Love can exist on many planes. It is like a ladder with many rungs which run from the lowest to the highest, from the earthly to the heavenly. The lowest kind of love expresses itself as sex. It is gross, it is physical, biological, chemical, hormonal. But there is a grain of love [...]

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Osho – Love is the path and love is also the goal

Osho on Love

Osho – Love is the path and love is also the goal, the beginning and the end, the first step and the last step. Love contains the whole of religion, but love has to be understood: it is not lust. It is not a desire to get something from anybody, on the contrary it is [...]

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Osho on Love – To be able to love one needs to be loved

Osho on Love

Osho – We live in a society which is absolutely loveless, so everybody is hungry for love, desperately hungry, dying for it, starving. And the problem is that unless you love people they cannot love you – and you cannot love because you have not been loved. This is the vicious circle. To be able [...]

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Osho – Trust belongs to being, Love belongs to the heart

Osho on Love and Trust

Osho – Trust belongs to being. Being is always the same; it is part of eternity. And because trust belongs to being, it does not change the way love changes. Love belongs to the heart, and heart is very moody. Sometimes you are full of love, and sometimes utterly empty, sometimes dancing, and sometimes with [...]

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Osho – Who is loved is immaterial; the loved one is just an excuse

osho on love and loving

Osho – Who is loved is immaterial; the loved one is just an excuse. The real objective is that because of a beloved, the river of love that has up to now been blocked within the lover may start flowing; the fountain that has for so long been covered over may spring up again; all [...]

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Osho – Loneliness cannot create love, it creates need

osho on loneliness and love

Osho – Loneliness cannot create love, it creates need. Love is not a need. Then what is love? Love is luxury. It comes out of aloneness, when you are tremendously alone and happy and joyous and celebrating, and great energy goes on storing in you. You don’t need anybody. In that moment the energy is [...]

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Osho – Love is possible only if meditation becomes possible

Osho on Meditation and Love

Osho – Meditation is the art of enjoying your aloneness just as love is the art of enjoying togetherness. These two things — love and meditation — are the most important in life. But meditation is far more important than love, because love is possible only if meditation becomes possible. A person who cannot enjoy [...]

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Osho on Platonic Love, Platonic love is just a good name for homosexuality

OSHO ON PLATONIC LOVE

Question – Beloved Master, What is Platonic Love? Osho – Krishna Deva, love is simply love. It can’t be Platonic or Hegelian or Kantian — love is simply love! Platonic love is another name for homosexuality. Plato seems to be the first person who believed in homosexuality. Many must have practiced it before him, but [...]

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Osho on Love – What is Love according to Osho

Question – What is Love? I feel that what I call Love and What you call Love are totally different. Osho - Yes, Vidya, they have to be totally different. When I talk about love it has the meaning of consciousness in it. When you talk about love it has the darkness of unconsciousness in it. [...]

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Osho – Love cannot live alone without understanding

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[A sannyasin asks about relationships, her marriage, and whether becoming enlightened is more important.] Osho – Love is crazy, so you cannot make it sane. Love is insane — and that is the whole beauty of it! It is not rational, it is not even reasonable. And this happens to everybody: sometimes you feel like [...]

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Osho – Love is the greatest gift of God. Learn the art of it. Learn the song of it, the celebration of it

Question – Beloved Master, Everyone wants to Love and to be Loved. Why? “first sight of love, last sight of wisdom.” Is it true? Osho – Bal Krishna Bharti, love is prayer groping towards God. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration: a song of gratitude, [...]

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Osho – Simple method of Meditation for Latin Lovers

Osho on Sacred Love

Question – Just a simple method of Meditation to suggest to Latin Lovers, So they may find their way? Osho – The simplest method for lovers is, while they are making love they should make it a sacred experience. All the religions have destroyed the sacredness of love. They have condemned it as sin. And [...]

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Osho – The real power is love, and that love will make you softer, forgiving, without any anger

Osho on Love

Question – Beloved Osho, Traveling with you over the past few months and seeing the hardness of the world, instead of being hardened in response I find myself only becoming softer and softer. Would you please comment? Osho – The ordinary response will be to become even more hard, but you are not in an [...]

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Osho – If your love is lust you can’t find a Soulmate

Osho on love soulmate

Question – Beloved Master, I am a strong man, But I cannot find a woman who truely loves me. What is missing in me? I have come here to find a soulmate. Can you help me? Osho – Sudhiro, maybe… but before I can help you to find a soulmate I will have to create [...]

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Osho – The basic problem of love is to first become mature

Osho on basic problem of Love

Osho – You can go on changing your husband or your wife a thousand and one times, you will again find the same type of woman and the same misery repeated in different forms – but the same misery repeated; it is almost the same. You can change your wife, but you are not changed. [...]

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Osho – The ’need-love’ or the ’deficiency-love’ depends on the other

Osho on immature love

Osho – The first thing: There are two kinds of love. C.S. Lewis has divided love into these two kinds: ’need-love’ and ’gift-love’. Abraham Maslow also divides love into two kinds. The first he calls ’deficiency-love’ and the second he calls ’being-love’. The distinction is significant and has to be understood. The ’need-love’ or the [...]

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Osho – Being in Love means you have to Seduce the other person every day

Osho on being in love

[A sannyasin said that he had been living under a tree in Goa for five years, until he fell in love with a woman and tried to settle down with her, but has been too much for him. When they are apart he loves her; when they are together it is heavy.] Osho – This [...]

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Osho – Love knows no distinction and love never gives itself with any condition attached to it

Osho – To be a sannyasin means to be surrendered, seeing ’I am part of the whole. It is ridiculous to fight, so l surrender.’ And in that very surrender you are victorious; now you cannot be defeated. There is no one to defeat you and there is no one inside you to be defeated: [...]

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Osho – A loving person cannot be ambitious; it is impossible for a loving person to be ambitious

[A sannyasin, returned from the West, says she is not ready to live in the West. She has a strong desire to be loved, feels a desperation that she hasn’t been loved. Osho says that is one of the basic problems that touches everyone.... ]Osho – …because we live in a society which is absolutely [...]

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Osho – Anger is relevant when you are in love, anger is allowed when you are in love

Osho on Anger and Love

[A visitor says she has been with her husband for fifteen years and has just discovered she doesn’t love him, but there are three children – what to do?] Osho – Anger is relevant when you are in love, anger is allowed when you are in love – you can afford anger, anger is part [...]

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Osho – Love and death are very deeply related, very deeply related

Osho on Love and Death

[A sannyasin analyses and intellectualises at length about his relationship, his lessening desire for sex, his curiosity about death.... ] Osho – Love and death are very deeply related, very deeply related – almost the same door; from one side it is love, from another side it is death. If your love life is going [...]

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