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. Love is a fresh wind. Do not think that love must be eternal, then your love life will become more perfect - because you will know that today you are together, and tomorrow, you may have to leave. Love comes as a breath of fresh, fragrant breeze that has flown into your house. It fills it with freshness and fragrance, stays in it as long as Existence allows, and then flies away. Don't try to lock all the doors, or the fresh breeze will turn into stale air.
Love is the only religion, the only God, the only mystery to be lived and understood. If you have understood love, you have understood all the sages and all the mystics of the world. It's not difficult at all. It's as simple as your heartbeat or breath.
Love grows only in love. Love needs an atmosphere of love.
People think that they can only love when they find a worthy partner. Nonsense! You will never find him.
For love to flow and grow, no perfection is needed. A person who is in love simply loves.
People who demand perfection are people who are neurotic, devoid of love. From a loved one they demand perfection, and such demands destroy love. As soon as a man falls in love with a woman or a woman with a man, some claims immediately arise. A woman, just on the basis that a man loves her, begins to demand that he become perfect. Either he will have to become a superman, or he will have to turn into a pretender, a hypocrite, a rogue. Of course, since becoming a superman is extremely difficult, people begin to cheat. In the name of love people just play games. Never demand perfection . You have no right to demand anything from other people. If someone loves you, be grateful, but do not demand anything, because this person is not obliged to love you. If someone loves, it's a miracle. Look at him with trepidation. If you love a person, don't demand anything from him. Don't expect anything. If something comes to you, be grateful. If nothing comes, then it does not need to come, there is no need for it.
. Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving. By giving, you receive. There is no other way.
Becoming an individual is the first thing. Second: Don't expect perfection, don't ask or demand. Love ordinary people. Every person is unique. Respect this uniqueness. Third: give, and do it unconditionally, then you will know what love is.
Love only happens when you give up. When you force another person to give up, it's disgusting, it's destructive.
The age of 21 to 28 is the time when a man and a woman can stop. They can choose a partner. And now they are able to make a choice - thanks to the experience of the previous two periods of growing up, they can choose the right partner. Nobody else can do this for you. Here something like intuition is included - neither arithmetic, nor astrologers, nor palmistry, nor Yijing will be enough. This is intuition. You've talked to many, many people, and suddenly something clicks in you, something happens that has never happened to anyone else. And it clicks so precisely, so definitely, that you don't have the slightest doubt. Even if you try to doubt, you can't, that confidence is so great. After this click, you stop.
How to get on the path leading to love? Become more alert to your actions, to your relationships, to your actions. Even when you are doing something quite ordinary - say just walking down the street - try to become alert. Try to walk with full awareness…radiate awareness…let more and more moments of your life be illuminated by the light of awareness.
. It's not about what you do, but how you do it.
Everything in life is subject to change - and that is beautiful; so you gain more and more experience, more awareness, more and more maturity .... There is nothing eternal in life ... flowers bloom in the morning, and by the evening they already fade. Life is a constant change; everything is changing, moving. Nothing is static, nothing is eternal. You have been taught to believe in eternal love, and that will ruin your life.
HIS interest in women is a guarantee that he will be interested in YOU, that your love still has a chance to last for many years.
To make life easier and more fun, you must be flexible. You must remember that freedom is the highest value and if love doesn't give you freedom, then it's not love .
You must learn to love. And when a man is loved, he becomes more polite, more courteous, turns into a gentleman. It gets rid of sharp corners, becomes softer. Through love, a woman blossoms; otherwise, it remains an unopened bud. Only in love, when the sun of love rises, does it open its petals. Only when she loves does a different depth, a different radiance appear in her eyes; her face takes on a joyful expression. Through love, she goes through a deep transformation, reaches maturity.
Because of all these conventions, you play a disgusting game: when a man starts wooing you, you run away - which, of course, makes him chase you. And you like that he runs after you. All women love it. It's disgusting and you don't realize what's behind it. This means that you are a victim; the man is a hunter, and he pursues the game. You unconsciously give superiority to a man.
Never tell anyone that love is a duty. This is wrong. Debt is an artificial substitute for love.
The difference between lust and love. Driven by lust, you use another person to satisfy your desires. You just use it, and when you reach your goal, you can throw this person out. You don't need it anymore, it has fulfilled its function. This is the most immoral action in the world: to use a person as a means. Love is the exact opposite of this: you respect the person as such. When you love someone for who they are, there is no heartache; through love you are enriched. Love makes everyone rich. Secondly, love can be real only if there is no ego behind it, otherwise it becomes its manifestation. Then it turns into a method of covert suppression.
Love can be sacrificed for freedom, but freedom cannot be sacrificed for love.
. Love in its purest form is when you share joy . Love asks nothing in return, it expects nothing; how can you feel pain? When you don't wait, you can't be hurt. Then whatever comes is good, and if nothing comes, that is also good. Your joy was in giving, not in receiving. Then a man can love even a thousand miles away; You don't even need a physical presence.
Love is a spiritual phenomenon, lust is material. Ego is a psychological phenomenon, love is spiritual.
Fear is never love, and love is never afraid. Nothing to lose for love. Why should love be afraid? Love only gives. This is not a business transaction, so there is no profit or loss involved. Love likes to give, just like flowers like to exude their fragrance. Fear and love never coexist, they are not capable of it. No coexistence is possible. Fear is the opposite of love. People usually think that the opposite of love is hate. This is wrong, completely wrong. The opposite of love is fear. Hate is love that has risen on its head; it's a headstand, but not the opposite of love. A person who feels hatred simply shows that deep down he still loves. Love faded, but still not dead.
If two people are able to live their whole lives in love, no one will interfere with them. No marriage is needed for this, just as divorce is not needed. Love should be the highest act of freedom.
But you have been told for thousands of years that "if you truly love, your love must be eternal." I haven't noticed anything in life that lasts forever.
Love cannot be an exception. Therefore, do not expect that she will always be with you. This will make your life more beautiful, because you will know that today you are together, and tomorrow you may have to leave. Love comes as a breath of fresh, fragrant breeze that has flown into your house. It fills it with freshness and fragrance, stays in it as long as Existence allows, and then flies away. Don't try to lock all the doors, or the fresh breeze will turn into stale air.
People think that excitement and joy are one and the same. Excitement is a kind of intoxication; it captures you, you plunge headlong into it. Having plunged into this state, you forget about your worries, problems and anxieties. It resembles alcohol intoxication: you forget about your problems, you forget about yourself, and even if for a moment, you find yourself far, very far from yourself. This is the essence of excitement: you are no longer inside yourself, you are outside; you ran away from yourself. No excitement can last forever. .. True love begins when the honeymoon ends... Ka it's wonderful - just to be near a person when you are not overwhelmed by excitement, when, shrouded in silence, you do not move, do not utter a word. You are just together, you two have one space, one being, merged into one , you do not think about what to do and what to say, where to go and how to have fun. All this is already in the past. The storm subsided, silence fell.
If both partners realize that their meeting is a meeting of opposites, that there is no need to arrange a conflict because of this, then there is a good opportunity to understand the opposite point of view and perceive it.
However, most couples do not meditate. It doesn't happen that they spend a whole hour together, in silence, just touching each other's minds. They either quarrel or make love, but in both cases, communication occurs at the level of bodies, physical contact, biology, hormones. They do not come into contact with the hidden depths of the being of another person. Their souls remain divided.
Man and woman are two halves of one whole. Therefore, do not waste time on empty quarrels, instead try to understand each other. Try to put yourself in the other's place; try to look at the world through the eyes of a man, try to look at the world through the eyes of a woman. Four eyes are always better than two. Then you have full review, all four directions are open to you.
Loneliness and solitude are different states. To be alone means to feel complete. You don't need anyone, you are self-sufficient. It happens in love. Those who love are alone - through love you come into contact with your inner integrity. Love makes you complete. Lovers merge together, but this is not their need, they are simply overflowing with energy.
. Loneliness - this is sadness; the state when you are alone, solitude, sadness is not characteristic. Loneliness is a feeling of incompleteness. You need someone, but he's not around. Loneliness is an impenetrable darkness in which not a single light flickers. The house is plunged into darkness. He waits and waits for someone to enter him and light a candle.
When one is completely free, that freedom makes giving possible. Then he gives a lot, but not because it is necessary; he gives a lot, but not because he expects to get something in return. He gives a lot because he has a lot. He gives because he loves it.
Love recognizes freedom - and not only recognizes, but strengthens it. And everything that destroys freedom has nothing to do with love. It's probably something else. Love and freedom go hand in hand, they are two wings of the same bird. If you notice that your love is in conflict with freedom, then under the guise of talking about love, you are busy with something else.
Decaying, love turns into possessiveness, jealousy, power struggle, politics, domination, manipulation - it takes on a thousand different guises, one uglier than the other. When love soars up into the open skies, it is freedom, absolute freedom.
Love unconditionally - ask nothing in return
. One must love, but not out of necessity, your love must be a gift. Love, but don't expect anything - give. Love, but remember: your love should not become a prison cell for your beloved. Love, but be very careful; you are in a sacred place. You enter the most important, purest and most holy temple. Be vigilant! Leave all the dirt behind the threshold of the temple. Having fallen in love with a person, love him as if he were a Divine and nothing less. Never love a woman like a woman and a man like a man, because then your love will be completely ordinary. Such love will only be lust. If you love a woman like a woman, your love will not reach the heights. Love a woman like a goddess, then love turns into worship.
Loneliness is a state when you are not happy with yourself, you are bored with yourself, you are tired of yourself and you want to escape somewhere, to forget yourself in the company of other people. Solitude is when you experience delight just from yourself. You are happy to be yourself. You don't have to go anywhere. The need has disappeared, you have become self-sufficient. But now something new is born in you. There's so much in you that you can't contain it. You must share, you must give. And you will be grateful to everyone who accepts your gift.
There are two kinds of love. One is love that happens to a lonely person. Then it is a need, you aspire to another. A different kind of love arises when you don't feel alone. On the contrary, you are alone. In the first case, you seek to receive; in the second case, you want to give. The giver is the king.
. Love should give you freedom. Never settle for less. Love should make you absolutely free, a vagabond in the vastness of freedom, devoid of any roots. Love is not attachment; attachment is lust.
. Love, if it is right, makes you meditative. Meditation, if it is right, makes you loving.
. Love and meditation - these are the two opposites that form the basis of life.
Hell is created because you hope for heaven.
Quarrels happen because you want agreement on everything.
. Love should be above all friendship, where no one dominates, does not impose their opinion , where both are aware that they are - different people what they have different attitude to life, that they think differently, and yet - despite all the differences - love each other. Then you won't have any problems. We create problems ourselves. Don't try to make someone superhuman.
If you love a man or a woman, you want to give that person as much freedom as possible. If love cannot give freedom, then it is not love.
. Love with all the power you can. Never think about what will happen in a minute.
. When you fall in love, you begin to show your true colors. . Love is a mirror. Another person becomes a mirror. Any novel acts as a mirror.
. Love needs time to mature, it needs intimacy
. It will take her a really long time. This is not a flower - an annual that grows in three to four weeks, and fades in a couple of weeks. This is a long process of convergence. Gradually, two people merge, uniting into one whole, and then they feed each other. From another woman or another man you will not receive such nourishment. Your connection can become a small adventure, an affair. But then suddenly a feeling will appear in you - and it will definitely appear - that you had a wonderful time, but this novel did not give you anything. And the man will return.
. Wives say to their husbands: "You must love me, I am your wife." Strange! Husbands say: “You must love me. I am your husband, this is my inalienable right.” Love cannot be required. If you are loved, be grateful; if not, wait. Even while waiting, you should not complain about anything, because you have no rights.
If your close relationships help you grow, if they mature you, they can be considered positive, helpful, wholesome, healthy. If, however, they have a detrimental effect on you, not allowing you to reach maturity, but rather keeping you in childhood, then they are harmful and dangerous. Any relationship that does not give you the opportunity to become an adult is harmful.
Being truthful is the real problem. Authenticity creates real problems. Say what is really there - do not hesitate, do not look around. Look straight into your eyes and be sincere. Help your partner to become sincere.
You help another person to drop all complexes, masks and protective shells. In close relationships, a person sees the real face of the other and himself shows his real face. If a relationship helps you to find your authentic face, then it is meditative, then it is spiritual. If your relationship just helps you put on more masks, then it's non-religious.
. How does married life begin in some cases? People are silent. They don't say anything. They don't tell the truth at all. They pretend and lie.
They smile when they don't feel like smiling, kiss when they don't feel like kissing. Of course, if you kiss against your will, your kiss becomes poisonous. Of course, if you don't feel like smiling, but you have to, your smile looks ugly, it's all politics. But then a person gets used to all this, resigning himself to falsehood and to the fact that he lives a fake life. He finds a thousand solaces for himself.
. Remember, the criterion is this: if you grow, turning into a person, if more and more life happens to you, if you become more and more open, if you see more and more beauty in the world around you, if poetry is born in your heart, if you radiate more and more love, compassion, if you become more aware, then everything is in order in your relationship. Keep up the good work. Then it's not a marriage. This is closeness. But if the opposite happens: if poetry disappears and life becomes prosaic, if love goes away and life becomes a burden, a heavy burden, if all the songs are dead and you live in obedience to a sense of duty, then it is better to escape from this prison. Better for you and better for the person you live with.
Many misunderstood me. They think I'm saying, "Change your partners as quickly and often as possible." I don't say that. I'm talking about what relationships should be maintained as long as love unites you.
As soon as you both feel that she is gone, that she is no more ... You can pull a little more, but by doing so you will deceive each other. To deceive the man you loved is disgusting; cheating on the woman you loved is disgusting. It’s better to be honest and say: “It’s time for us to part, because love is gone and we can’t return it.”
There are things that come and go on their own. When you fell in love, it wasn't you - you didn't make the decision to fall in love. It happened suddenly, you could not explain the reason why it happened. The only thing you can say is: "I felt that I fell in love." Just remember the first meeting, remember. As love came to you, it leaves in the same way.
You will wake up one morning and suddenly you will feel that love is no more. There is a husband, there is you, but the bridge that lay between you has disappeared, the uninterrupted flow of energy has dried up. There are two of you, but you are one and he is one. The feeling that you are “together” has disappeared and the secret that kept you close is beyond your control. You can't force that feeling back.
. Love decides everything by itself.
Well, if she stays for a long time. If it lasts only a few moments, that's also great, because love is good
. Its duration does not matter. In a few moments you can experience more strong love than you will survive in a few years. And thanks to such a strong feeling, you will touch something unknown, something that simply turns pale over the years. So the time doesn't matter, the only thing worth thinking about is the depth, the intensity.
Falling in love, completely immerse yourself in this feeling. And when it's gone, say goodbye to it and be done with it.
Don't let these thoughts occupy your mind. There are many strangers in the world - who knows? Love has left you so that you can find a better stranger.
Life is strange. Trust her. You can meet a person with whom you will have a great love, and you will realize that your previous feeling is nothing compared to this one. And remember, one day this great love may also disappear. Trust in life, which has given you gifts over and over again, and you didn’t even ask for it. Be open, available.
There are so many wonderful people in the world; there is no shortage of them. And in each person there is some kind of originality, something that no one else has. Each person brings their own unique colors, poetry, melody to their love.
trust life
- this is mine the main idea. Trust life, because we are born of it, we are children of life.
Trust life. Life has never betrayed. Perhaps you have completed one class, you must move to another, rise to a new level, to a more refined love, more sublime - who knows? Just keep your heart open and life never deceives anyone.
. Only the one who is able to be alone is endowed with the ability to love, to give, to penetrate into the very depths of another person's being - without taking possession of him, without becoming attached to him, without turning him into a thing and without falling into dependence on him. Such people give the other complete freedom, because they know that if he leaves, they will be as happy as they were with him. Another cannot make them unhappy, because they have not received their happiness from outside.
The love of real people is a luxury, not a need. They like to give: there is so much joy in them that they want to pour it out on another.
Love is born with you; it is a property inherent in you from the very beginning. All you have to do is give it a way, create a channel for it, let it out, let it happen.
. The more you give, the more you have. The less you give, the less you have. If you do not give at all, you will lose those qualities that are inherent in you by nature.
By giving you gain.
Love is not a relationship. Love is manifested in relation to someone, but this is not a relationship .... The word "relationship" means something completed. Love is never a relationship. Love is a process.
If you enjoy being close to a person, you will want to enjoy this feeling again and again.
It is impossible to know the other person, he remains a mystery. And to take another for granted is insulting, disrespectful towards him.
This is the joy of love: the exploration of consciousness.
And if every time you establish a new contact, without reducing it to a "relationship", the other becomes a mirror for you. By studying another person, you will gradually learn about yourself. Plunging deeper into the other, recognizing his feelings, thoughts, his deepest experiences, you will reveal for yourself what is hidden in the secrets of your soul. Lovers become mirrors for each other, and then love becomes meditation.
To love is good, it is a great virtue. If you can't love one person, it's better to let your love flow to someone else. But do not get hung up, otherwise you will suffer and make your partner suffer. Both of you will suffer. The problem is, if you suffer long enough, you get used to your suffering. Then you begin to experience a kind of pleasure from suffering itself... Never, even for a moment, linger in a state of suffering.
There is an opinion that if everyone starts telling the truth, there will be no friendship left on Earth, all friendly relations will fall apart: there will be no lovers, no friends, no marriages - nothing. All this will just disappear. Relations between people will be reduced to chance meetings, any communication will be limited to short, fleeting contacts.
. When you love a person, you love everything that can happen between you. The possibilities are endless, and you love all their shades and nuances.
. Love is possible only when a person is free to be himself. without any conditions or restrictions.
If you truly love yourself, if you dive into the depths of your being, you will be ready to love even more - because one who does not know himself is not capable of deep love.
Love is a state of mind…and it is possible only when you penetrate deep into your being, when you start to love yourself.
. If you are not happy being alone, how can you be happy next to another person?
It is better to part and be real at the same time than to pretend, remaining together; for then your relationship will not bring you any joy.
Sympathy is not love, and if someone sympathizes with you, be careful! ... True love does not sympathize. True love empathizes.
A good relationship is about giving, there is no addiction… I have so much, so I share with you.
Love does 2 things: first, it takes away your ego, then it gives you a center. Love is a great mystery.
The more you love, the more love you get.
Exists three kinds of love.
First love is object oriented. (I-it love.)
Love has an object. This is ordinary love, known as "eros". This is lust. The other is perceived as a thing. The other is likened to a thing that you have to take possession of.
The second love looks like this: the object is not important, your subjective feeling is important.
You love and you give your love as a gift. You love even when you are alone. Love perfumes your being. If you truly love a woman or a man, your first gift will be freedom. When a person reaches this level - when you love the whole existence in all its manifestations, such love becomes unconditional. Then it turns into prayer, becomes meditation. The second kind of love is "I-you". The other is personality. You have respect for him.
In love #3, the object and the subject disappear. One is just love.
There is only love, you are not. One is just love. This is not an action, but a property, a deep state. At the third level, you just turn into love. From now on you can always love, your love becomes infinite.
There is no such thing as too much wisdom. Everyone, perhaps, has moments of thoughtfulness, when you begin to doubt, when you want something more. In this case, the philosophy of the Indian mystic Osho comes to the rescue. Despite his commitment to religion and mysticism, his statements are close to life. We present to your attention quotes from Osho. In our selection you will find the philosopher's statements about life, love, happiness. The collection also contains Osho quotes about women and men.
As is typical of Indian traditions, the philosopher changed several names during his life, which reflected the essence of his views and teachings. The last was the name Osho, which means “monarch” or “teacher” in translation. The works of the philosopher are published under his last name.
Osho knows exactly what happiness is. It does not consist in money and not in blessings, the ability of a person to live on earth is already happiness. The philosopher is sure that happiness is with each of us always and everywhere. To understand that we are surrounded by happiness, just look around: the beauty of nature, the ability to communicate and believe in ourselves - that's it, happiness.
Osho pays a lot of attention to love, and here it is difficult to disagree with his views. Love is not measured by anything, it lies in the ability to give and not demand anything in return.
What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end it only matters whether you are a happy person or not.
What matters is not how much money you have, what matters is whether you are happy with it?
Happiness is always with you.
Believe in it and it will never leave you.
Happiness is where you are - where you are, there is happiness. It surrounds you; it is a natural phenomenon.
Are you unhappy? Look around - aren't you surrounded by happiness?!
Happiness happens when you are in tune with your life, in such harmony that whatever you do is joyful.
If you are surrounded by loved ones, you have a favorite job and you are a healthy person - this is happiness.
True Happiness is here and now. It has nothing to do with the Past and the Future.
Happiness is in the present.
Life itself has no meaning, but it is an opportunity to create it.
Everyone is looking for something to live for.
You can enjoy life, you can enjoy life, you can become part of its mystery, but it is absolutely impossible to understand it, being an outside observer.
In life, no one stands aside, everyone takes an active part in it.
Sin is when you do not enjoy life.
You should be happy that you are alive...
The best way to miss life is to have a certain relationship with it.
In life, you need to be able to adapt to everything.
Life is not a mechanical process, and it cannot be safe. This is an unpredictable mystery. Nobody knows what will happen in the next moment.
Life is full of unpredictable moments, that's what makes it interesting.
Stop thinking about how to get love and start giving. By giving, you receive. There is no other way...
Love you, they will love you too.
The reasons are within ourselves, outside there are only excuses ...
Sometimes we ourselves do not know what stops us inside.
How mercantile you are, my friend. Remember: everything that money can buy is already cheap!
Everything that has true value cannot be bought with money.
Do not look for the best, but look for your own, because the best will not always be yours, but your own is always better!
When you value your own, they will never leave you.
Just being yourself means being beautiful.
Beauty lies in naturalness and lies in the real "I".
Never hope that someone else will change. Change must always start with yourself.
Change yourself and you'll never have to try to change anyone again.
The only time you have is now; the only place is here.
You need to be happy here and now!
You are a big fan of creating problems... just understand this and suddenly the problems will disappear.
Problems do not arise out of nowhere, as a rule, we create them ourselves.
Until you are able to say "no", your "yes" is meaningless.
Get rid of unnecessary things in life.
The only person on earth we can change is you.
No need to try to change the world, you need to change yourself.
Everything will come by itself - you just need to create favorable conditions. Everything will come - you just need to accept it. Life will definitely smile at you.
In order for luck to come to you, you need to wait for it with open arms, and not close yourself in and complain about life.
Do not look for the best, but look for your own, because the best will not always be yours, but your own is always better!
Good is not what someone else has, good is what you have.
Paradise is where the flowers of your true Self bloom. Hell is there - where your Self is trampled on, and something is being imposed on you.
You will be happy only where your opinion is accepted, and not trying to change it.
Love knows nothing of duty.
In love, no one owes anything, everyone acts according to the dictates of the heart.
Debt is a burden, a formality. Love is joy, generosity; love is informal.
There is real love, formalities for it are just formalities, nothing more.
Love is food for the soul. Love is to the soul what food is to the body. Without food, the body is weak; without love, the soul is weak.
Without love, the soul does not live, it exists.
Without love, a person can be rich, healthy, famous; but he cannot be normal because he knows nothing about inner values.
Only when you fall in love do you understand that the heart can also speak.
Love is a function as natural as breathing. And when you love a person, don't start demanding; otherwise from the very beginning you close the doors. Don't expect anything. If something comes, feel gratitude.
In love, everything should happen naturally.
To love is to share; to be greedy is to accumulate.
Who loves, he tries to give everything that he has.
Greed only wants and never gives, while love only knows how to give and asks nothing in return; She shares without conditions.
In love, they do not consider their own, they simply share them.
Love has nothing to do with relationships, love is a state.
Love is a state of mind, you can love and not be in a relationship.
Giving love is a real, beautiful experience, because then you are the emperor.
It's even better when you give love and receive it in return.
Don't be a beggar. At least as far as love is concerned, be an emperor, because love is your inexhaustible quality, you can give as much as you like.
There are no limits in love.
Love is not a quantity, it is a quality, and a quality of a special category that grows through bestowal and dies if you hold on to it.
Love is measured not by the number of meetings, but by the trembling of souls in love.
Man and woman are doors to God. The desire for love is the desire for God.
When love penetrates into their hearts, it means that God settles in their souls.
Love is not something that can be limited.
Love cannot be measured, weighed or limited, love is incommensurable.
Love is the only real thing worth experiencing.
Love is what happiness is.
If you want to change a woman, agree with her. If you want to know what's really on a woman's mind, then look at her, but don't listen.
The look and gestures of a woman sometimes say more than words.
A psychiatrist is someone who, for a considerable fee, asks you the same questions that your wife asks you for free.
So think about it, does it make sense to spend money, maybe just talking with your wife is enough ?!)
A woman, a real woman, must become more and more feminine, must be extremely soft and weak.
A woman should not prove her strength, she should allow herself to be weak.
A man suffers from a great inferiority complex because he cannot give birth to a child. This is one of the deepest unconscious inferiorities in a man.
A man will never experience the happiness that women experience.
Osho's teachings are like a mosaic. It contains the ideas of Buddhism, Greek philosophy and other areas. But in the complex, Osho's views represent a holistic picture of life, love and happiness.
Who is Osho? Bhagavan Shri Rajneesh is perhaps the brightest spiritual figure in India, he managed to create a whole army of followers, achieve worldwide success and the same worldwide censure, as well as publish more than 600 books in 30 languages in 25 years of spiritual practice.
The success and recognition of this Indian mystic can be compared with another Indian religious figure - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who was the spiritual mentor of the musicians of the Beatles.
No matter what they say about Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh and no matter what epithets he is awarded, he really is a man who wrote his name in bold italics in the modern history of mankind.
Throughout its Osho's life was a rebel, he saw politics in religion, an obvious utopia in the structure of modern society, and in family life trap for the individual.
When writing this article, I took most of the information about Osho's life from Wikipedia, many thanks to this open library for free information.
Osho, biography and life path
In this part of the post, I will briefly talk about the biography and life path of Osho, from his birth to death. Below you can find out about each period of his life in more detail.
| date | Event |
| December 11, 1931 | (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan is his real name). |
| March 21, 1953 | On this day, he was 21 years old. |
| 1957 - 1966 | |
| 1968 | |
| April 1970 | |
| 1974 | |
| 1981 | and organizes a commune there |
| November 14, 1985 | |
| 1986 | |
| January 19, 1990 |
Childhood and first experiences in meditation
Osho was born on December 11, 1931 to a Jain family in the remote village of Kuchwada in the province of Madhya Pradesh, in Central India. The real name given to him by his parents is Rajneesh Chandra Mohan. Rajneesh spent all his childhood with his grandparents, his parents took him in only after their death.
WITH early childhood Rajneesh experimented on his body and mind, not knowing that this would lead him to invent a new path in meditation and a whole army of fans, but all this is yet to come.
The first moments of unconscious meditation Rajneesh experienced in childhood, when he jumped from a high bridge into the river. He had many chances to smash his skull to pieces, but with amazing consistency, all the experiments went smoothly. Such experiences, experienced repeatedly, aroused interest in meditation and prompted the young man to look for more accessible and less safe ways to go to nirvana.
Osho himself recalled his childhood experiences as follows:
There were several moments when the mind stopped, at the same time there was an unusually clear perception of everything around, one's presence in it and complete clarity and separateness of consciousness.
Enlightenment Osho
On March 21, 1953, Osho realized that he woke up as a completely different person, the person who was on March 20, 1953 is no longer there.
Osho himself recalls the following:
That night I died and I was reborn. But the person who is reborn has nothing to do with the one who died. It is not a continuous thing... A person who has died has died totally, nothing is left of him... not even a shadow. The ego died totally, completely... On that day, March 21st, a person who had lived many, many lives, millennia, simply died. Another being, absolutely new, completely unconnected with the old, began to exist ... I became free from the past, I was torn out of my history, I lost my autobiography.
Osho's university years, study and teaching
The amazing enlightenment that happened to Osho on March 21, 1953 did not affect his everyday life in any way. Rajneesh, as before, continued his studies at the philosophical department. Enlightenment did not affect his diploma with honors, which he received in 1957 after graduating from Saugar University.
A few years later, he himself teaches philosophy at Jabalpur University, they say that the students loved him for his sincerity and humor. During his short teaching career, Osho constantly travels around India, trying to better understand the spiritual needs of its people.
Nine years later (in 1966), Rajneesh leaves the university department and devotes himself to spreading the art of meditation and promoting his own religion. His religion consists in a certain vision of a new man - the man of Zorba-Buddha.
Zorba the Buddha is a man who combines the best features of the East and the West, he is able to enjoy physical life and is able to sit silently in meditation.
First dynamic meditations in Bombay
Since 1968, Bhagavan Shri Rajneesh has been living in Bombay, Western seekers of Eastern truths began to come to him slowly, many were strongly impressed by meetings with the new guru. Most of the guests in the first wave were therapeutics and other movements wishing to take the next step in their energetic and spiritual growth.
In Bombay, Osho began to practice the so-called "dynamic meditations", which are based on the use of music and body movements with different activities. The Guru combined elements of yoga, Sufism and Tibetan traditions, such a practice made it possible to use the principle of energy transformation by awakening activity and subsequent calm observation.
In April 1970, at a meditation camp near Bombay, the guru officially presented the practice of dynamic meditation to journalists. After the demonstration, the journalists were horrified and Bhagawan Shri Rajneesh hurried to explain everything they saw, but many were not convinced by his words.
Some journalists described what was happening in Osho Ashrams like this:
Meditation at the Rajneesh ashrams includes specific dances where participants are blindfolded, undressed, and put themselves into an ecstatic trance. Hundreds of thousands of residents of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta gathered for his lectures, ending in mass shaking and tearing off their clothes. Many times, such "dances" in Rajneesh groups, for example in the USA, ended in group sex.
The guru himself very simply explained the whole bacchanalia that is going on during his meditations:
For many years I have continuously worked with the methods of Lao Tzu, for many years I have continuously studied direct relaxation. It was very easy for me and I figured it would be just as easy for anyone. But practice has shown that this is not the case. At first I said "relax". My students understood the meaning of the word, but true relaxation did not occur. That's when it's time to come up with new methods of meditation that first create tension - maximum tension. The tension should be so strong that you become just crazy. And then I say "relax."
Founding of Osho Ashram in Pune
In 1974, the Osho movement is gaining momentum and new areas are required for meditation and outreach to the population. By that time, hundreds of thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world come to the already famous guru. And in the same year, Osho's headquarters appeared in the city of Pune, at OSHO Commune International, 17 Koregaoh Park, Poona 411011 MS India.
It is in Pune that famous seekers of truth and movie stars (Diana Ross, Ruth Carter Stapleton, sister of Jimmy Carter and others) come to preach. In his conversations, the mystic touches on many aspects of human existence and consciousness, many speeches related to existing religions become truly rebellious. Osho mixes everything together, Buddha and Buddhist teachings, Sufi masters, Jewish mystics, Indian classical philosophy, Christianity, yoga, tantra, Zen and immediately denies the need for any of these religions and beliefs, offering his own new religion instead.
The turning point for the first ashram in Pune was 1981, at the beginning of the year, an enhanced screening regime for visitors was introduced in the ashram, due to constant threats towards the guru. In 1981, a store was set on fire, and explosions sounded near the ashram. In relation to the ashram and its visitors, local residents show dissatisfaction, and the government of Indira Gandhi deprives Osho ashram of the right to be considered a religious organization.
Incomprehensible cases are going on around the ashram and the Pune police are investigating multiple violations, finding more and more evidence of the involvement of the ashram administration in them (unpaid taxes, misappropriation of donations for charitable purposes, numerous thefts and criminal cases committed by members of the ashram).
Without waiting for the completion of the trial, Osho receives a US visa (June 1, 1981 at the US Consulate in Bombay) and, as part of 17 most devoted students, flies to New York. On the US visa application form, the guru indicated that he needed to receive medical treatment in the US. In the future, this fact will be one of the grounds for his expulsion from the States.
Moving to the USA, foundation of the Osho commune in America
Already on July 10, 1981, the American subsidiary of Osho, the Chidvilas Rajneesh Meditation Center, registered in Montclair (New Jersey), acquires Big Magdi Ranch from an investment company from Amarillo (Texas) for $ 6,000,000, part of the amount (1.5 million) The deal was paid for in cash.
The territory of the new city, which Osho is building, occupies more than 100 square miles of property, and part of the land (14,889 acres) was leased from the American Bureau of Land Management. Despite the severity of American law, the city-settlement of Rajneeshpuram appears - the city of dreams. The status of the city is quite legal and in new house guru devotees from all over the world are sent.
Most of the buildings in the city of Rajneeshpuram were built by the hands and money of the adherents of the teacher, of whom more than 5,000 people lived in the commune. Very quickly, the most necessary things appeared in the city, an airfield, a comfortable hotel with a casino, shopping streets, restaurants, etc.
For several years of existence of the Rajneeshpuram commune, it has become the most revolutionary experiment in creating a transnational spiritual commune and partial detachment from the outside world. More than 15,000 people from all over the world came to regular festivals in Rajneeshpuram, Osho's own country became prosperous with a population of more than five thousand people.
Over time, the discontent of the local population (which no one cared about) and the government only grew. Many questions accumulated for the spiritual figure, to which he was in no hurry to answer. The main claims that the authorities made against the gurus were simple and were within the laws of the United States. For example, the paragraph of the Constitution on the separation of the state and the church was violated, and many buildings in the city were not properly coordinated. From additional factors that aggravated the fate of the city of Rajneeshpuram and Osho himself were strange deaths in the vicinity of the city, but there were no obvious traces that would indicate the involvement of the guru in these deaths.
The guru did not come up with anything smarter than to take a vow of silence and kept it for four whole years. During his silence, he entrusted all the affairs of managing the community to his faithful follower, Shila Silverman. Shila turned out to be a very economic woman and, after leading the settlement a little, she disappeared in an unknown direction, taking with her more than 55,000,000 dollars.
Before her disappearance, Shila managed to be very rude to local farmers with promises of physical reprisals against objectionable and other delights, the farmers probably got scared and soon a whole landing of FBI troops appeared in the dream city. The FBI discovered several weapons caches and drug production, which served as a good reason for the arrest of a religious leader.
The arrest and further trial, which took place in Portland (Oregon), ended on November 14, 1985, not in favor of Osho. The religious leader was found guilty on two counts of the federal indictment. It was decided to deport Bhagawan Shri Rajneesh from the country, which is probably why the religious figure received a purely symbolic punishment: ten years of suspended imprisonment and a $300,000 fine. The government ordered Osho to leave the United States within five days. Under the careful supervision of FBI agents, the guru leaves the United States.
Osho's return to Pune
Returning back to India, the guru wished to travel around the world and possibly find a new home. Most countries did not want to see a religious figure on their land and spoke directly about it, others deported him very quickly. After completing this amazing quest, Osho returns to India, where he is still loved and expected.
In mid-1986, the guru resurrected the withered community in Pune and breathed into them new life. This is how the “Multiversity” appeared in Pune, this is the name the religious leader chose as common name for their teachings and practices.
Osho Multiversity offers hundreds of seminars, groups and courses presented in its nine departments:
- Centering School;
- School of Creative Arts;
- International Academy of Health;
- Meditation Academy;
- School of Mysticism;
- Institute of Tibetan Pulsations;
- Transformation Center;
- School of Martial Arts Zen;
- Zen Games and Training Academy.
At the time of the return of the teacher to Pune, there were already about 300 such centers in the world, they were located in 22 countries of the world, including the USA, India, England, France, Canada, Japan, Russia, etc. However, such high competition did not become an obstacle and the new ashram in Pune began to live with fresh followers.
Death of Osho at the Ashram in Pune
Shortly before his death (at the end of December 1988), Osho announced that he no longer wanted to be called "Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh", and in February 1989 he took the name " Osho Rajneesh", which was shortened to "Osho". He also requested that all brands formerly branded "RAJNEESH" be rebranded internationally as "OSHO".
At the end of the 80s, the health of the religious leader deteriorated significantly and he could no longer do without a personal doctor, but despite the progressing illness, he tries to go out to his students for "meditation of music and silence." Rare conversations of the guru are held less and less often, at which he tells his followers about his mental transformation and that Gautama Buddha settled in his body, that the Americans are to blame for the causes of his illness, that one or several people at evening meetings subjected him to some form of evil magic.
Osho died on January 19, 1990 at the age of 58, the true cause of death of the guru was never established, immediately after death, the body was put up for farewell, and then cremated.
Osho's teachings, the main commandments of how to be outside of all teachings
Osho's teachings are as incomprehensible as the person himself; a little bit of everything is mixed in his teachings. Osho's teachings are a chaotic mix composed of elements of Buddhism, Yoga, Taoism, Sikhism, Greek philosophy, Sufism, European psychology, Tibetan traditions, Christianity, Hasidism, Zen, Tantrism and God knows what else.
Osho formed four development paths for the followers of his teachings:
- Independent analysis of events, opposition to the influence of any ideology and independent resolution of their own psychological problems;
- Acquisition of one's own experience of "living a full life", rejection of life "according to books", search for "reasons for suffering, joy, dissatisfaction";
- The need to bring out one's inner and psyche-destroying "hidden desires" in the process of self-realization;
- "Enjoy simple things... - a cup of tea, silence, conversation with each other, the beauty of the starry sky.
The Teaching does not impose any postulates on anyone, it only helps to be outside of all teachings.
Here is what Osho himself said about this:
I am the founder of a single religion, other religions are a sham. Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha simply corrupted people... My teaching is based on knowledge, on experience. People don't have to believe me. I explain my experience to them. If they find it right, they accept it. If not, then they have no reason to believe in it.
The Ten Commandments by Osho
The Guru was against any commandments, but in a joking conversation with journalists he singled out several points:
- Never fulfill anyone's commandment unless it also comes from you;
- There is no other god but life itself;
- The truth is in you, don't look for it elsewhere;
- Love is prayer;
- To become nothing is the door to truth. Nothing in itself is a way, a goal and an achievement;
- Life is here and now;
- Live awake;
- Don't swim - swim;
- Die every moment so that you can be new every moment;
- Don't look. What is - is. Stop and see.
Sex guru Osho, or how journalists themselves came up with everything
The stigma "Sex Guru Osho" appeared in more thanks to journalists, because it was they who could look at meditation lessons and tell the whole world what was going on there. The teacher himself did not betray such a significant role in the spiritual life of a person, as well as did not hush up this fact. The Guru did not divide the manifestations of life into positive and negative, like many Hindu cults, in his teaching the very concept of good and evil is blurred.
Most of the sexual liberties in his teachings came from tantra, from which he took much for his tantric teaching about "the integration of sexuality and spirituality." Tantra existed in India long before Osho appeared and no one paid such close attention to it.
About sex and sexual orgies, Osho said the following:
Develop your sexuality, don't repress yourself! Love is the beginning of everything. If you miss the beginning, there will be no end for you ... I do not inspire orgies, but I do not forbid them either. Everyone decides for himself.
Osho's financial condition
About money and his success, Osho said the following:
I am the guru of the rich. There are enough religions that deal with the poor, but leave me to deal with the rich.
By the mid-1980s, Osho was worth about $200,000,000 tax-free. In addition to the usual things characteristic of all wealthy people, the spiritual leader had four aircraft, one helicopter and 91 luxury cars.
To cars worldwide well-known brand The Rolls-Royce guru had a special look and said the following:
In India, one Mercedes caused a stir, but in America it took almost a hundred Rolls-Royces to achieve the same effect.
Admirers of their guru fully supported Osho's aspirations for luxury cars and spoke flatteringly about love Osho to Rolls-Royces:
We wish he had 365 Rolls-Royces. A new car - for every new day of the year.
$ 200,000,000, several planes and a whole Rolls-Royce dealership were not of particular interest to Osho and did not evoke emotions, like everything material in this world, but for the daily detour of the flock, he chose Rolls-Royce.
Living in the USA, Osho got behind the wheel at exactly 2:30 p.m. and slowly, solemnly drove along the living wall of his fans, lined up along the edges of the “nirvana road” he called. The worshipers of the guru felt lucky to see their spiritual leader and humbly threw rose petals under the wheels of his car.
What did Osho leave after his death?
During the life of his teachings, his practice and his persona were very revolutionary for their time, and Osho was shunned by society. This was done to the guru in many progressive countries of the world, he looked at it as usual. But after his death, the attitude of society towards him changed, in some countries the changes were dramatic.
Doctrine
After the death of the guru, the attitude towards his person and teachings in his homeland changed significantly. The teaching of the spiritual figure has become part of popular culture in India and Nepal. In 1991, one of the Indian newspapers chose the person of Osho as a person who changed the fate of the country, putting him on a par with Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi.
Measures were taken to preserve records of all his discourses. A complete collection of his works is placed in the library of the Parliament of India in New Delhi.
There are more than 300 meditation and information centers around the world founded by his followers. Dynamic meditation and kundalini meditation have gone beyond meditation centers and are used in many non-sannyasin-led groups and are sometimes practiced in schools and universities.
The Osho International Foundation regularly conducts stress management seminars for large corporate clients (IBM, BMW, etc.). Osho Therapy has gained recognition and is being used as a new approach to psychotherapy.
Books
Guru wrote more than 300 books in his life, but only after the death of Osho's books they became in demand and gained great popularity. More than 49 international publishing houses began to print the works of the spiritual leader in incredible circulation. More than 3,000,000 copies are produced and sold annually.
In his works, Osho touched on a variety of topics, the most popular of which are: spiritual practices, creativity, love and relationships between people. Each Osho book is full of parting words, secrets and meanings, they should only be carefully read and heard by the author.
Here are the most popular books:
- Meditation. First and last freedom;
- Creation;
- Tantra - Book of secrets;
- Book of Wisdom;
- Love. Freedom. Loneliness;
- Bravery;
- awareness;
- Intuition. Knowledge beyond logic;
- Medicine for the soul. Collection of practices;
- Master: about the transformation of an intellectual into an enlightened one.
Pune International Meditation Resort
One of the attractions of India can be called the Osho Ashram in Pune, the ashram is a frequented International meditation resort. A variety of spiritual methods and practices are taught at the meditation center, which is why the ashram bills itself as a spiritual oasis and "sacred space".
The ashram in Pune is frequented by famous politicians, media workers and modern IT gurus, the Dalai Lama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have visited the meditation center.
famous quotes
Evidence that Osho had a significant impact on modern society, are his quotes, which you can often see on social networks. People actively publish on their pages quotations from the books of a religious figure, from his speeches, often initially without knowing who their author is.
In this part of the post I will give the brightest quotes about life and love. If you have your favorite sayings of this philosopher and mystic, share them in the comments to the post.
Osho quotes about life
What difference does it make who is stronger, who is smarter, who is more beautiful, who is richer? After all, in the end, it only matters whether you are a happy person or not?
The reasons are within ourselves, outside there are only excuses ...
How mercantile you are, my friend. Remember: everything that money can buy is already cheap!
The only person on earth we can change is ourselves.
To rise you must fall, to gain you must lose.
Osho quotes about love
Love knows nothing of duty.
Love has nothing to do with relationships, love is a state.
To love is to share, to be greedy is to accumulate.
Greed only wants and never gives, while love can only give and does not ask for anything in return, it shares without conditions.
Love is the only real thing worth experiencing.
While writing this post, information about life Osho's way(Bhagawan Shri Rajneesh) was obtained from Wikipedia.
Americans consider themselves the richest in the world. But I played a very simple trick on them.
I bought ninety-three Rolls-Royces, and all their pride vanished in an instant. Even their president began to envy me, not to mention the governors and clerics. One pastor from Vasco County completely forgot about Jesus Christ on Sundays. He did not forget only about ninety-three "Rolls-Royces"! He outdid himself by scolding me from the pulpit. And when I got out of prison, he wrote me a letter. Believe it or not, he wrote: “Now that you are about to return to your homeland, I want to ask you: do you have a desire to donate at least one car to our church? That would be a wonderful example of charity.”
You yourself understand everything... I have taught meditation to thousands of people, but America was not interested. There were thousands in my congregation - America didn't care. Our festivals gathered twenty thousand guests from all over the world - America and it was all right. The press procrastinated only one fact: ninety-three Rolls-Royces. And I thought that this was only possible in a poor country ... But I destroyed the myth of America's superiority! I don't really need those ninety-three Rolls-Royces. It was just a prank.
Everyone is sad, everyone is jealous, everyone says that Rolls-Royces are incompatible with spirituality. I don't see any contradictions! I can meditate in a Rolls-Royce... To be honest, it is much more difficult to meditate in a cart, so Rolls-Royces provide accelerated spiritual growth.
