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Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: A New Vision of Relating [Secure eReader (recommended)]
eBook by Osho
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eBook Category: Family/Relationships
eBook Description:  Why are so many people nowadays living alone? The model of the traditional family is breaking down, children barely into their teens are experimenting with sex, and half of all marriages in developed countries end in divorce. In this book, Osho explains why these phenomena are happening and how they can actually be viewed as a cause for celebration rather than worry. In a post-ideological world, where all the old moralities are clearly out of date, we have a golden opportunity to redefine and revitalize the very foundations of our lives. We literally have the chance to start afresh with ourselves, our relationships to others, and how we define fulfillment and success for the individual and for society as a whole. Why is it that people who are happy being alone have the best chance to be happy being with someone else? In the modern world, like it or not, freedom is our basic condition and until we learn to live with that freedom, learn to live by ourselves and with ourselves, will we have any possibility of finding love and happiness being together with someone else. Provocative as always, Osho is wise as well as funny, an appealing and commonsensical guide to the complexities if modern life.
eBook Publisher: St. Martin's Press/St. Martin's Press, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2002
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended) - What's this?]: SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [231 KB]
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eReader ISBN: 9785551192145
 
Preface In Plato's Symposium, Socrates says: A man who practices the mysteries of love will be in contact not with a reflection, but with truth itself. To know this blessing of human nature, one can find no better helper than love. I have been commenting my whole life on love, in thousands of different ways, but the message is the same. Just one fundamental thing has to be remembered: It is not the love that you think is love. Neither is Socrates speaking about that love nor am I speaking about it. The love you know is nothing but a biological urge; it depends on your chemistry and your hormones. It can be changed very easily -- a small change in your chemistry and the love that you thought was the "ultimate truth" will simply disappear. You have been calling lust "love." This distinction should be remembered. Socrates says, "A man who practices the mysteries of love..." Lust has no mysteries. It is a simple biological game; every animal, every bird, every tree knows about it. Certainly the love that has mysteries is going to be totally different from the love with which you are ordinarily acquainted. A man who practices the mysteries of love will be in contact not with the reflection, but with truth itself. This love that can become a contact with truth itself arises only out of your consciousness -- not out of your body, but out of your innermost being. Lust arises out of your body, love arises out of your consciousness. But people don't know their consciousness, and the misunderstanding goes on and on -- their bodily lust is taken for love. Very few people in the world have known love. Those are the people who have become so silent, so peaceful... and out of that silence and peace they come in contact with their innermost being, their soul. Once you are in contact with your soul, your love becomes not a relationship but simply a shadow to you. Wherever you move, with whomsoever you move, you are loving. Right now, what you call love is addressed to someone, confined to someone. And love is not a phenomenon that can be confined. You can have it in your open hands, but you cannot have it in your fist. The moment your hands are closed, they are empty. The moment they are open, the whole of existence is available to you. Socrates is right: One who knows love also knows truth, because they are only two names of one experience. And if you have not known the truth, remember that you have not known love, either. To know this blessing of human nature, one can find no better helper than love. Copyright © 2001 by Osho International Foundation
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