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Osho
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Osho:
A charismatic spiritual master from India. An excellent orator, who drew fluently from both Eastern mystical traditions as well as Western psychotherapy. His teachings concern not only the individual search for making sense of the world, but also the most pressing social and political issues.

Why is love connected to suffering? Why does it cause anxiety? 

Why is love so painful?

Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an uncharted ocean. You cannot use your mind with the new; with the old, the mind is skillful. The mind can function only with the old; with the new, the mind is utterly useless.

Hence, fear arises, and leaving the old, comfortable, safe world, the world of convenience, pain arises. It is

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Osho:
A charismatic spiritual master from India. An excellent orator, who drew fluently from both Eastern mystical traditions as well as Western psychotherapy. His teachings concern not only the individual search for making sense of the world, but also the most pressing social and political issues.
Publish date: 11.12.2020

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What is desirelessness? Is it to be totally without desire or to be totally free to have or not have desire?

To be totally free of desire will make you dead – will not be alive any more. That’s what has been taught: Be desireless! But what can you do? You can go on cutting desires; the more desires are cut, the poorer your life becomes. If all desires are destroyed, then you have committed suicide, spiritual suicide. No, desire is the energy of life, desire is life. Then what do I mean when I say: “Be free of desire?”

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