Religion is Love, Politics is the Opposite - “I Say Unto You” – Osho pg. 240-241

Religion is Love, Politics is the Opposite - “I Say Unto You” – Osho pg. 240-241

“Religion is love, intelligence, awareness, meditation, desirelessness, non-ambition.  And politics is just the opposite: ugly ambition, violence, aggression.”

“Politics is the desire to rule over others, and religion is the desire to free oneself from others and to free others from oneself.  Religion is freedom.  Those who love freedom, make others free also, and those who love slavery and want others to make others slaves, become slaves to their own slaves.”

“Remember that the very desire for power is an ugly desire.  It makes you ugly.  In a religious consciousness there is no desire to have any power over anybody.  That brings beauty; it brings freedom not only to you, but freedom for others too.” - Osho

True Martial Arts represents love, intelligence, awareness, meditaiotn, desirelessness, and non-ambition.  Corrupted Martial Arts is just the opposite, it is ugly ambition, violence, and aggression.

Corrupted Martial Arts is the desire to rule over others, true Martial Arts is the desire to free oneself from others and to free others from oneself.  True Martial Arts is freedom. 

In true Martial Arts there is no desire to have any power over anybody.  A true Martial Artist simply expresses himself honestly and inspires people to be true to themselves in total freedom. – SFL July 26 2015

Disciples

Disciples

“To talk to disciples is a different thing.  To talk to disciples means that the other side is receptive – not only receptive but immensely welcoming.  You are welcome, the other side wants you to come in, the other side wants to become a host to whatsoever you are saying.  The doors are open, the windows are open for you to become a breeze, or sunlight, and enter into their beings.  They are not afraid, they are not defending, they are not arguing; they are ready to go with you wholeheartedly to any unknown dimension.  To talk to disciples is not a kind of discussion or debate; it is a dialogue.  It is as much a dialogue as it is when two lovers talk to each other.  The disciple is in love with the master, the master is in love with the disciple.  There is a deep love flowing.  That love becomes the bridge, and then great truths can be explained, conveyed, almost materialized.”

“He has escaped from the multitude, but not from the disciples.  He is available to the disciples.  He can fly with existence and the disciples can fly with him.  Maybe they are not so expert at flying, but their readiness is there, and that is the only thing that is needed, the most essential.  Maybe they cannot go to the very heights alone; but trusting the master they can follow, they can follow to any length, they can go to any extreme.  The master flies with God, the disciple flies with the master.  The disciple cannot see God yet but he can see the master, and through the master he can feel God.  That’s why the master becomes almost a God to the disciple.  He is.  By and by, the closer the disciple comes to the master, the more and more he will see that the master is an emptiness, or a mirror in which God is reflected.  Sooner or later, he himself will become an emptiness, a mirror, and will be able, in his turn, to help others.” – Osho “I say unto you” pg. 16

Sexual Repression and Madness

Sexual Repression and Madness

The society is sexually repressed, something has gone deeply wrong.  So wrong that we are forced to hide our attraction towards others.  We have become schizophrenic.  On the outside we have to act like we are celibate but on the inside we are highly sexualized.  On the outside we have to appear to be unaffectionate and hard but on the inside we are deeply longing for affection and love.  We are simply split into two.  We see beautiful women on the street and we do not have the courage to approach the women to let them know that we are attracted.  We hide these feelings and we go home in depression.  We have not yet learned to express ourselves truthfully from within.  Our lives are unfulfilled because we have yet to express our true feelings within towards those we are attracted towards.

We can go many years or our whole lives hiding our feelings towards others.  We then become lonely, depressed, and sad.  In private we long for affection and love, in private we turn towards pornography, as an attempt to fulfill this longing for affection and love, but pornography will never be sufficient.  It is like trying to fulfill your hunger and thirst by looking at pictures and videos of food and beverages.  Pictures and videos will never be sufficient enough to fulfill our hunger and thirst. 

People who sexually repress themselves for too long can go mad. When you hide your attraction towards women too long, it could then lead towards having attraction towards those of the same sex or even towards having attraction towards little children.  When you deny affection towards women, then your body and mind may start to seek for this affection in people of the same sex, in children, or possibly from animals.  Then this affection can turn sexual, and once it turns sexual, the courts and the law can turn against you and label you as a sexual predator, as a pedophile, as a homosexual. 

The society promotes and teaches you to be sexually repressed and then the law punishes you if you do not express this sexuality according to their cultural values. Sexual repression leads people towards doing things that are unnatural.  Rather than expressing your love and affection towards a living, breathing woman, you go home in the privacy of your own home and masturbate to pornographic images.  Rather than feeling comfortable hugging a human being, you feel more comfortable hugging a dog, cat, or teddy bear.  Rather than being attracted towards someone of the opposite of sex, you end up being attracted to someone of the same sex.  Rather than being attracted to someone that is an adult, you end up being attracted towards a child.  Sexual repression leads towards madness. – SFL May 23 2015

“If you look at a flower, people will say, “How aesthetic!”  And if you look at a woman’s beautiful face or a man’s beautiful face, people will say, “This is lust.”  If you go to the tree, and stand there, and look in a dazed state at the flower – your eyes wide open, your senses wide open to allow the beauty of the flower to enter you- people will think you are a poet, or a painter, or a mystic.  But if you go to a woman or a man and just stand there with great reverence and respect, and look at the woman with your eyes wide open and your senses drinking the beauty of the woman, the police will catch hold of you.  Nobody will say that you are a mystic, a poet; nobody will appreciate what you are doing.  Something has gone wrong.” – Osho “The Book of Women” pg. 158

“If you go to a stranger on the street and you say, “What beautiful eyes you have!” you will feel embarrassed, she will feel embarrassed.  She will not be able to say, “Thank you” to you.  In fact, she will feel offended.  She will feel offended, because who are you to interfere in her private life?  Who are you to dare?  If you go and touch the tree, the tree feels happy.  But if you go and touch a woman, she will feel offended.  What has gone wrong?  Something has been damaged tremendously and very deeply.” – Osho “The Book of Women” pg. 158

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 

Being in Love

Being in Love

“What do I mean when I say “really love”? I mean that just being in the presence of the other you feel suddenly happy, just being together you feel ecstatic, just the very presence of the other fulfills something deep in your heart … something starts singing in your heart, you fall into harmony.  Just the very presence of the other helps you to be together.  You become more individual, more centered, more grounded.  Then it is love.”

“Love is not a passion, love is not an emotion.  Love is a very deep understanding that somebody somehow completes you.  Somebody makes you a full circle.  The presence of the other enhances your presence.  Love gives freedom to be yourself; it is not possessiveness.”

So, watch.  Never think of sex as love, otherwise you will be deceived.  Be alert, and when you start feeling with someone that just the presence, the pure presence – nothing else, nothing else is needed; you don’t ask anything – just the presence, just that the other is, is enough to make you happy … something starts flowering within you, a thousand and one lotuses bloom … then you are in love, and then you can pass through all the difficulties that reality creates.  Many anguishes, many anxieties – you will be able to pass all of them, and your love will be flowering more and more, because all those situations will become challenges.  And your love, by overcoming them, will become more and more strong.”

“Love is eternity.  If it is there, then it goes on growing and growing.  Love knows the beginning but does not know the end.” – Osho “the book of women” pg. 63-64

Love is the feeling you receive when you see your baby or dog you have grown to love.  The very presence of the baby and the dog puts you in great happiness.  Just their presence makes you smile, makes you filled with joy.  The baby, the dog, does not make you feel jealous or possessive.  And the baby and dog do not feel jealous or possessive towards you.  Any feelings of jealousy and possessiveness, becomes attachment, it is the mind, it is the ego.  This ego should be identified and put under control as a slave, the heart becomes the Master, the heart is love.  Attachment, possessiveness, and jealousy is the ego.  The spiritual man never allows the ego to gain control, but the spiritual man remains a master over the ego. 

Now when you have learned how to love a baby or a dog without attachment, possessiveness, and jealousy, you will apply this love towards others.  You will apply this love towards individuals of whom you become intimate with.  When you come home, the baby and the dog do not ask “where have you been?” They simply enjoy their time with you at that moment; jealousy and possessiveness do not disrupt the present moment.  Now when you love another, you apply this same presence.  You are in the moment, you appreciate that this person has decided to spend time with you, you do not destroy the experience by allowing the mind to enter to destroy the moment.  You simply drop the past and allow yourself to be happy with the love that you feel at that moment. 

You meet one another because you both truly enjoy the positive energy that is being shared.  The other person completes you, makes you feel whole.  The other person fills you up with so much positive energy and happiness that you are naturally drawn to want to meet again.  Only the mind, only the ego is capable of destroying love, with no mind, with no ego, love will last till eternity.  Only those who have mastered the Art of meditation will be able to love till eternity.  All others will only experience love momentarily.  – SFL May 7 2015