14 February is celebrated as valentine day all over the world and a lot of things are going on in the name of love. So it is quite important to understand the true meaning of love. Worlds most famous mystic, OSHO has given some deep insights on this topic. Here are a few excerpts of his talks which can be helpful to understand LOVE.
1.love is spontaneous
“And the miracle is if you meditate and slowly, slowly get out of the ego and out of your personality and realize your real self, love will come on its own. You don't have to do anything, it is a spontaneous flowering. But it blossoms only in a certain climate, and that climate I call meditation. In the climate of silence – no-mind, no disturbance inside, absolute clarity, peace and silence – suddenly, you will see thousands of flowers have opened within you, and their fragrance is love.”
Osho, The Invitation,
2.Love is Spiritual
“Love is a spiritual experience – nothing to do with sexes and nothing to do with bodies, but something to do with the innermost being.
“But you have not even entered into your own temple. You don't know at all who you are and you are asking about love. First be thyself; first, know thyself – and love will come as a reward. It is a reward from the beyond. It showers on you like flowers, fills your being. And it goes on showering on you, and it brings with it a tremendous longing to share. That sharing can only be indicated in human language as ‘love’ It does not say much, but it indicates the right direction. Love is a shadow of alertness, of consciousness.
“I teach you to be more conscious. And love will come as you become more conscious: it is a guest that comes, that comes inevitably to those who are ready and prepared to receive it.”
3.Rise in Love
"And that love arises not by falling in love with somebody. That love arises by going in – not by falling but by rising, soaring upwards, higher than you. It is a kind of surpassing. A man is a love when his being is silent; it is the song of silence. A Buddha is a love, a Jesus is love – not in love with a particular person, but simply love. Their very climate is love. It is not addressed to anybody, in particular, it is spreading in all directions. Whosoever comes close to a Buddha will feel it, will be showered by it, will be bathed in it. And it is unconditionally so.
"Love makes no conditions, no ifs, no buts. Love never says, ‘Fulfill these requirements, then I will love you.’ Love is like breathing: when it happens you are simply love. It does not matter who comes close to you, the sinner or the saint. Whosoever comes close to you starts feeling the vibe of love, is rejoiced. Love is unconditional giving – but only those are capable of giving who have.
“One of the most mysterious things about the man is that he goes on giving things which he doesn't have. You go on giving love and you don't have it in the first place, and you go on asking for love from others who also don't have it – beggars begging from beggars.
“Love first has to happen in the deepest core of your being. It is the quality of being alone, happily alone, joyously alone. It is the quality of being a no-mind, of being silent. Contentless consciousness is the space, the context, in which love arises in you.”
Osho, The Guest,
4. Relationship Destroys Love
"Relationship is a structure, and love is unstructured. So love relates, certainly, but never becomes a relationship. Love is a moment-to-moment process. Remember it. Love is a state of your being, not a relationship. There are loving people and there are unloving people. Unloving people pretend to be loving through the relationship. Loving people need not have any relationship – love is enough.
"Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship – because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.
"Be a loving person.
"But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship – and befool that way: ‘Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.’ And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness.
"A relationship may be just out of fear, may not have anything to do with love. A relationship may be just a kind of security – financial or something else. The relationship is needed only because love is not there. A relationship is a substitute.
"Become alert. Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth."
5. Love Is a Door
"If there is passion in love, then love will become hell. If there is an attachment in love, then love will be a prison. If love is passionless it will become heaven. If love is without attachment then love itself is the divine.
"Love has both possibilities. You can have passion and attachment in love: then it is as if you have tied a stone around the neck of the bird of love so that it cannot fly. Or as if you have put the bird of love in a golden cage. However precious the cage maybe – it may be studded with diamonds and jewels – a cage is still a cage and it will destroy the bird's capacity to fly.
6. Love Is a Spiritual Phenomenon
“Love in its purest form is a sharing of joy. It asks nothing in return, it expects nothing; hence how can you feel hurt? When you don't expect, there is no possibility of being hurt. Then whatsoever comes is good; if nothing comes, that too is good. Your joy was to give, not to get. Then one can love from thousands of miles away; there is no need to even be physically present.
“Love is a spiritual phenomenon; lust is physical. Ego is psychological; love is spiritual.”
7.The World Will Drop Wars Only when Love Enters into the World Again
"The society does not allow love because if a person is really in deep love he cannot be manipulated. You cannot send him to war; he will say: I am so happy! Where are you sending me? And why should I go and kill strangers who may be happy in their home? And we have no conflict, no clash of interests…
"If the young generation. moves deeper and deeper in love, wars will disappear because you will not be able to find enough mad people to go to the war. If you love, you have tasted something of life; you would not like death and killing people. When you don't love you have not tasted something of life; you love death.
Osho, Talking Tao,
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