Osho on Love

OSHO: Being In Love

How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear – “Love should be a reality in your life, not just a poem, not just a dream. It has to be actualized. It is never too late to experience love for the first time. Learn to love. Very few people know how to love. They all [...]

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Osho Video : LOVE and HATE are ONE

What happened to love? Everybody is looking for love, but the world is full of hate. With love something very drastic has happened. This OSHO TALK goes deep into the psychological understanding how our authenticity about love was spoiled. – Never judge anybody by his act, because the real thing is not the act but [...]

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Osho – Love is not your power: Love is your helplessness, utter helplessness

Osho on love and helplessness

[A sannyasin, leaving, says: I am very impatient about my inability to love, and I don’t know what to do about it.] Osho – Nothing has to be done. If you do something you will create more of a mess. Love is not a question of doing. Simply accept your helplessness and out of the [...]

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Osho – Love has many dimensions to it. The first dimension of love is that of passion

[Another visitor says: Can you love more than one person or is it just that love is a general feeling for many people? I think my confusion stems from something you said in the lecture about when you love someone, that person is... for me it would be all men. Is that possible?] Osho – [...]

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Osho – Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned

Osho – Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, unthought. Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false. And that’s why people go on loving yet it never satisfies, because no phony food can be nourishing. True love has to be spontaneous, it has [...]

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Osho – Don’t force yourself to do something which is not happening Naturally

[A sannyasin says: I am in beautiful love with a sannyasin here but sometimes I feel very much that I need my own space, I need to be alone. And I don’t understand if it is good or if it is because I am afraid to be more deeply in love.] Osho – Nothing to [...]

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Osho – Love is out going, Meditation is in going. Love is a sharing, But how can you share if you don’t have it in the first place

Osho on Love and Meditation

[A visitor said that while he was very happy to be here, he was missing his girlfriend. Osho said that it was good in a love relationship for lovers to sometimes be apart so an appetite arose to be together.] Osho – In fact the very word ’love’ simply means to desire. You may not be [...]

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Osho – Love has to start from your centre

Osho on Love

Osho – Love has to start from your centre – and you are the closest person to it – only then can it go on spreading. It is like you throw a stone into a silent lake and the ripples arise. First they arise just around the stone, and then they go on spreading to [...]

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Osho – Be Loving and wait for Gratitude to arrive. And when it comes, don’t resist

Osho on Love and Gratitude

Osho – I teach love for the world. Love this earth – it is really beautiful… it is utter splendour. Love from the smallest, the dewdrop, to the greatest star. Let this whole existence be your love object, let it be your beloved. Love has to be all-inclusive. And then only will you know the [...]

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Osho on Love – Share more, and let sharing be the only law. To be a miser is to be a sinner

[A sannyasin says he has a tension in his head and: ’I am not very loving and... I don’t feel verygood about myself’.] Osho – Mm… that may be the tension – because love is a release. If you are loving you remain relaxed. If you are not loving you become tense. Tension means simply [...]

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Osho – Love is not attachment. Love is not possessiveness

Osho on Love and Attachment

Osho – Love can only be oceanic; it cannot be small. It cannot be small because it cannot be a closed phenomenon. It is an open, wide sky. Love knows no limitations. Love is not attachment. Love is not possessiveness. When love becomes possessive and love becomes attachment it is no more love; it is [...]

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Osho – Love should be more conscious. When it is conscious it is less sexual.

Osho on Conscious Love

Osho – Let love become more and more conscious. When it is unconscious it remains entangled with sexuality. Nothing is wrong in sexuality but that is the lowest form of love, the first rung of the ladder. It is good in itself but to remain confined to it is not to grow: there are higher [...]

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Osho – Is Awareness Higher Than Love

Osho on Love and Awareness

Question – Osho, Is Awareness higher value than Love? Osho – Virendra, THE HIGHEST PEAK IS THE CULMINATION of all the values: truth, love, awareness, authenticity, totality. At the highest peak they are indivisible. They are separate only in the dark valleys of our unconsciousness They are separate only when they are polluted, mixed with [...]

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Osho on Love – What is Love, Love is overflowing joy

Osho on Love What is Love

Question – Beloved Osho, What is Love? Osho – Swami Anand Tallis,LOVE is the radiance, the fragrance of knowing oneself, of being oneself. Anand Tallis is very young – he is only nine – but he is far ahead of his age. His mental age must be almost double that, nearabout eighteen, hence the question. [...]

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Osho on Sanai Path of love – The Hadiqa

Osho on Sanai Path of love

Osho : Sanai calls his path ”the path of the garden.” The path of the meditator is a kind of desert. The desert has its own beauty: if you have been in the desert in the night, it has a coolness you will never find anywhere else, and it has an immense silence, a huge [...]

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Osho’s Garden – Osho love for Trees

Osho's Garden

Osho : I have, my whole life, loved trees. I have lived everywhere with trees growing wild around me. I am a lazy man, you know, so somebody had to look after my trees. And I had to be careful about those people who were looking after them, because they were all prophets, messiahs, messengers [...]

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Osho – If love cannot bring tears to your eyes, then that love is dead

Osho on Tears

Question : BELOVED OSHO, WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO CRY WHEN I AM TOUCHED BY LOVE? Osho : Anand Mumuksha, you are fortunate. If love cannot bring tears to your eyes, then that love is dead. It is a great misfortune that tears have become associated with sadness, with sorrow; that is only one [...]

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Osho on looking Lovingly, Osho on difference in Lust and Love

Osho on looking Lovingly

Osho : LOOK LOVINGLY ON SOME OBJECT… LOVINGLY is the key. Have you ever looked lovingly at any object? You may say yes because you do not know what it means to look lovingly at an object. You may have looked lustfully at an object – that is another thing. That is totally different, diametrically [...]

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Osho on Authentic Lovers, Be authentic in Love

Osho on Authentic Lovers

Osho : Go beyond mind; reach to a level of no-mind. Then love flowers, but that love has no opposite to it. Beyond mind there is no opposite to anything. Beyond mind everything is one. Within mind, everything is divided into two. But if you are within mind, it is better to be authentic than [...]

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Osho on Falling in Love, Head Condemns Love

Osho on Falling in Love

Question : YOU SAID THAT WHEN TWO BEINGS ARE IN LOVE THEY ARE IN COMMUNION WITH EACH OTHER. THEN WHY DOES THE WORLD CALL IT ’FALLING’ IN LOVE WHEN IT IS SUCH AN ECSTATIC HAPPENING AND NOT A FALL TO A LOWER PLANE? Osho : The world calls it falling in love because the world [...]

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Osho on Conscious Action and Conscious Loving

Osho on Conscious Action

Osho: These are the two alternatives, simple alternatives, available: either blindly believe – but remember, God is not available to blind, superstitious people – or blindly doubt God is not available to them either. God is available to intelligent enquirers. What is intelligent enquiry? The first requirement is to be a little more conscious than [...]

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Osho on Wu Wei and the Way of the Heart

Osho on Wu Wei

Question : Wu Wei and the way of the Heart – How are they Interrelated? Osho : They are not interrelated; they are one and the same thing – just two ways of saying the same thing. Wu-wei means action without action. It means doing without doing. It means allowing that which wants to happen..Don’t [...]

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