:: NEWS TO SHARE ::

• LOVE, A LA OSHO

• CONNECTIVITY WITH NATURE
  

LOVE, A LA OSHO
Swami Chaitanya Keerti
SUN
February 15, 2005

A DISCIPLE ASKS OSHO: BELOVED OSHO, MIRDAD SAYS, LOVE IS THE ONLY FREEDOM from attachment. When you love everything you are attached to nothing.” And later on, “Man made prisoner by the love of a woman and woman made prisoner by the love of a man are equally unfit for freedom’s precious crown. But man and woman made as one by love, inseparable, indistinguishable, are verily entitled to the prize.”
Would you like to talk about this?

And also about sex and relationships, and if they matter in the spiritual growth? I ask this question, because I have never experienced this except once three years ago, and everybody is even going beyond it. This is what bothers me the most. I don't want to get stuck here. Does experiencing sex deeply make it easier to meditate?
beloved Osho, I am a bit embarrassed to ask this question, but it wouldn't go away.

Osho responds: the BOOK OF MIRDAD is my most loved book. Mirdad is a fictitious figure, but each statement and act of Mirdad is tremendously important. It should not be read as a novel, it should be read as a holy scripture -- perhaps the only holy scripture.
And you can see in this statement just a glimpse of Mirdad's insight, awareness, understanding. He is saying, LOVE IS THE ONLY FREEDOM FROM ATTACHMENT... and you have always heard that love is the only attachment.
All the religions agree on that.
But I agree with Mirdad.

One has to understand the very phenomenon of attachment. Why do you cling to something? Because you are afraid of losing it. What is available to you today may not be tomorrow.

Who knows what will happen tomorrow? The woman you love or the man you love, you may come closer or become distant. You may again become strangers or you may become so one with each other that even to say that you are two will not be right. There are two bodies but the heart is one. The heart’s song is one. Ecstasy surrounds you and you disappear in it: you are not you, I not I. Love becomes so total, that you cannot remain yourself; you have to drown yourself. In that disappearance who is attached and with whom? Everything is. When love blossoms in its totality, everything simply is. No fear of tomorrow arises, so there is no question of attachment, clinging, marriage, of any kind of contract, bondage….

What are marriages but business contracts? You insult love! You follow law, the ugliest thing in existence. When you bring love to court you commit an unforgivable crime. You commit before a magistrate that you want to be married and you will remain married. You promise that you will not separate, not deceive each other. Is that not a great insult to love?

I love -- there is no need for any law. Law is for those who do not know how to love.
Law is for those who have forgotten the language of the heart and only know the language of the mind.

Mirdad's statement is of such great value that it should be deeply understood -- not only intellectually, not only emotionally, but in your totality. Your whole being should drink it: love is the only freedom from attachment.
Because when you love you cannot even think of anything else. when you love everything you are attached to nothing. Each moment comes with new splendor, new glory, new songs; each moment brings new dances to dance. Perhaps partners may change, but love remains.

Attachment is the desire that the partner should never change. For that you have to commit to the court, to the society -- all stupid formalities. And if you go against those formalities you will lose all respect and honor in the eyes of the people amongst whom you have to live.

Love knows nothing of attachment because love knows no possibility of falling from dignity. It is the very honor itself, the very respectability itself; you cannot do anything against it. I am not saying that partners cannot change, but that it does not matter: if partners change but love remains like a river, flowing, then in fact the world will have much more love than it has today.
Today it is just like a tap -- drip, drip, drip. It is not able to quench anybody's thirst. Love needs to be oceanic, not the drip, drip of a public tap. And all marriages are public.
Love is universal. Love does not invite only a few people to celebrate, love invites the stars and the suns and the flowers and the birds; the whole existence is welcome to celebrate.

Love does not need anything else -- a night full of stars, what more can you ask for? Just a few friends... and the whole universe is friendly. I have never come across a tree who was against me. I have been to many mountains, but I have never found any mountain antagonistic. The whole existence is very friendly.
Once your own understanding of love blossoms there is no question of attachment at all. You can go on changing your partners, that does not mean you are deserting anybody. You may come back again to the same partner, there is no question of any prejudice….
And later on Mirdad says: man made prisoner by the love of a woman and woman made prisoner by the love of a man are equally unfit for freedom's precious crown.
The moment love becomes attachment, love becomes a relationship... the moment love becomes demanding, it is a prison. It has destroyed the freedom; you cannot fly in the sky, you are encaged.

CONNECTIVITY WITH NATURE
Swami Chaitanya Keerti
Hindustan Times:
New Delhi
February 15, 2005
                                 

“We depend on nature, not only for our physical survival, we also need nature to show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own mind”, says the new age mystic Eckhart Tolle in Stillness Speaks.

Modern man has lost connectivity with nature outside and his own nature within. He has not only disturbed the outer ecology, but has also ruined his inner ecology. We need to restore the balance in the outer as well inner ecology – the inner being more important than the outer. The outer is essentially the expression of the inner.

Anger, hatred and other forms of violence that erupt outside indicate that something has gone wrong inside – there’s chaos in the inner world, conflict between emotions and the intellect. This is the imbalance of inner ecology. How to restore this balance?

Meditation helps restore this balance. Osho offers a simple way of acceptance. He says, “Relax into yourself, close your eyes, and listen to all that is happening around. Don’t deny. Don’t reject. Accept – because if you deny, you will become tense. All denials create tension. Accept. If you want to relax, acceptance is the way. Accept whatsoever is happening all around; let it become an organic whole. Everything is inter related – the birds, sky, sun, earth, you, me. It is an organic unity. If the sun disappears, so will the trees and the birds, if the birds and trees disappear, you will disappear. Everything is deeply related to each other. Don’t deny anything, because the moment you deny, you are denying something in you.”

Eckhart Tolle concludes: when you perceive nature, let there be spaces of no thought, no mind. Be aware of life within the form – the sacred mystery, and perceive its all – encompassing consciousness.