Love With No Fear

Love With No Fear

“In the beginning only peripheries meet. But if the relationship grows intimate, becomes closer, becomes deeper, then by and by centers start meeting.  When centers meet, it is called love.”

“Love is very rare.  To meet a person at his center is to pass through a revolution yourself, because if you want to meet a person at his center, you will have to allow that person to reach to your center also.  You will have to become vulnerable, absolutely vulnerable, open.”

“It is risky.  To allow somebody to reach your center is risky, dangerous, because you never know what that person will do to you.  And once all your secrets are known, once your hiddenness has become unhidden, once you are exposed completely, what that other person will do, you never know.  The fear is there.  That’s why we never open.”

“You can allow somebody to enter to your center only when you are not afraid, when you are not fearful.”

“So I say to you that there are two types of living.  One is fear-oriented, on is love-oriented.  Fear –oriented living can never lead you into deep relationship.  You remain afraid, and the other cannot be allowed, cannot be allowed to penetrate you to your very core.  To an extent you allow the other, and then the wall comes and everything stops.”

“The love-oriented person is the religious person.  The love-oriented person means one who is not afraid of the future, one who is not afraid of the result and the consequence, who lives here and now.” 

“Don’t be bothered about the result.  That is the fear-oriented mind.  Don’t think about what will happen out of it.  Just be here, and act, totally.  Don’t calculate.  A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding.  His whole life is lost in this way.”

Risk is required if you wish to experience love.  Trust is required if you wish to experience love.  When you love someone, you become vulnerable.  When you love someone, you become open. To fall asleep next to your lover requires great trust.  Without love, without trust, life is full of fear.  A life full of fear is not a life worth living.  The greatest moments in my life were moments of being in love.  I’d rather live a short and intense life of love than to live a long mediocre life with no love.  I’d rather live a shorter life free than to live a long life in prison.  The best is to live a long life full of love. – SFL May 13 2015 

Wives and Prostitutes

Wives and Prostitutes

“To tell the truth, there is no difference between wives and prostitutes.  The difference is just like the difference between having your own car or going in a taxi.  A prostitute is purchased only for a few hours; wives are a long-term affair, it is economical.” – Osho “the book of women” pg. 52

A woman should not be a wife, she should not be a prostitute.  She should not be property, she should not be used as an object.  She should be a free human being that expresses love and follows her heart.  She should develop real friendships with other humans and follow her heart.  She should never allow a man to control and possess her.  She should be independent, not dependent on a man.  Through this independence she should be enabled to make her own life decisions.  She should only become intimate with men of whom she has grown to love, intimacy should never be forced.  Love should not be economical, she should share her love based on her freedom of choice.  Every day that passes, she should have the freedom of choice to spend time with those who bring bliss into her life.  Money needs to be earned to make a living, but money should always be separated from love and intimacy.  Love and intimacy must be free from economics.  A woman should be intimate with a man out of love, not money.  A woman who becomes intimate with men for money becomes a prostitute; a wife that becomes intimate with her husband for money and security becomes a long-term prostitute.  A woman, who becomes intimate with a man or men out of real love, is a real woman with self-respect. – SFL May 5 2015

Love With Detachment

Love With Detachment

“Detachment is not absence of interest – detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging.  Enjoy the moment while it is there and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go.  That is detachment.” – Osho “Tarot in the Spirit of Zen” – pg. 96

We should be in love with detachment.  We should be absolutely interested in one another, we should be in love, but we should not be attached.  We should not be possessive.  Like the beautiful sky, like the beautiful sun, we cannot own the sun, we cannot own the sky, but we can enjoy the beauty of it.  While it is there, we should enjoy it fully, when the sun starts to set, we let it go.  When the sky is no longer blue, when it starts to turn grey, we should not be upset, we should accept. 

While the love is there, while it is alive, enjoy it, fully enjoy it, be at one with it, be so at one with love that you become love.  Do not worry about how long the love will last, simply enjoy the love fully.  Death may end the love; a change of heart may end the love, but those are all thoughts of the future, the future does not exist, all that exists is this moment right now, and in this moment right now, you are full of love, so enjoy it, cherish it, and share it.  While you are full of love, share this love to the world, you will never know how long it will last, but I can say this, the more you share this love, the more love you will receive in return. 

Do not hoard love, hoarding love will kill it, it is like locking a bird away into a cage that is meant to be free, soon the bird will lose its beauty, soon the bird will become weak, soon the bird will die.  We are meant to share our love to this world in freedom, without freedom there cannot be love, without love there is very little joy in being free, love gives purpose to our freedom.  – SFL April 30 2015

Silent Creativity

Silent Creativity

“Creativity has two possibilities.  One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence – then creativity is healthy.  But if it does not arise out of meditation, out of silence and peace and understanding and love, then there is a danger.  It may be arising out of your confused mind.  It may be arising out of your insanity.”

“Anything that comes out of your tense mind, helps you anyway.  It gives a relief.  Something that was going round and round inside you – you have released it, but it will torture somebody else.  It may torture many… because the song that was imprisoned within you was a personal matter; you have made it public.  And if the song has come out of some kind of madness, some kind of confusion, you will certainly feel good, but at a cost which is too big.  Millions of people for thousands of years can be affected by it.  You are relieved but you have not behaved responsibly.  You have not behaved sanely, you have not behaved humanely.  Your songs, your paintings, your dance will have all the qualities of your mind, from which they came.”

“Before you start making your songs and singing and dancing, create the right consciousness, the right awareness, so whatever comes out of you is a blessing for humanity, not a curse.  That is the criterion.  Unless it can be a blessing, throw it into a fireplace.  You are released, but don’t burden somebody else.” – Osho “Sermons in Stones” pg. 457-459

These above passages speak directly to me and my past experiences.  It is clear that not all creativity is worth sharing, is worth making public.  Creativity out of anger and ego should be created and disposed.  Created as a sense of psychological release, but disposed so that it does not cause burden onto those around you.  It is like passing on an illness.  Rather than passing an illness onto another, heal yourself in privacy and only engage with the public when are healed.

Silent Creativity on the other hand is positive and healing.  Silent creativity is born out of meditation and peace.  Silent creativity should be shared with the public.  Silent creativity promotes love and happiness.  When you are overfilled with joy, you wish to share this joy.  If you are overfilled with madness, it is best not to share this madness but to keep this madness private, to transform this madness into bliss, once it is transformed to bliss, then it is the time to create and share bliss with others. 

Love is the Ultimate

Love is the Ultimate

“All things of this world are nothing in comparison to one second of love, because that one second is enough to give you ultimate contentment – beyond which you cannot spread your ambitions and desires.  Just that experience is enough to fill you with all that is beautiful, with all that is deathless, with all that Is part of truth, part of bliss, part of benediction.  A man who dies without knowing love has never lived.  And a man who knows love needs no other lives anymore – he has passed the examination of life.” – Osho “Sermons in Stones” – pg. 444

My greatest experiences in life, are moments of being in love.  There is nothing more beautiful in life than to experience love.  Life without love, is no life.  Love has transformed me.  No money, no fame, and no material possessions can replace the power of love.  When you are in love, you are the most powerful.  All fears disappear, you have lived your life to the fullest every moment, you are ready to die in contentment.