Osho, you beautiful! How you shake me ...
posted by Deva Harischandra Jessica
I have an immense affection for Osho! He is one of my most influential teachers. I love the way your words search my world that was built on cultural and social visions that prune and repress.
I love how it helps me deconstruct concepts and beliefs, shake me up and throw me into the simplicity of the flow of existence.
I love how it shows me that I am not only free, but I am freedom, and that I am responsible for building my own reality.
I love to watch this great therapist, who like every therapist deals with people's subjectivity. I love the way it reveals that there are different answers to the same question. Depending on the mouth he makes, he responds in a way, provoking, disturbing, messing with the codes, making him think, reflect and grow.
With him I have learned many things that make perfect sense to me. Between them:
- That we have love as essence. We are all love. We just forgot about it. That we need to remove the masks and layers of protection that we have built over the years. That the answer is within us. We already have it, we already know it, we already are, but we covered it with the social, cultural and ancestral veil. That love is within us, just set it free.
- That meditation leads us to that encounter, to the state of no-mind, to reconnect with existence, with the unconditional love that we are. That meditation is a means to get rid of the mind. And that leads us to create an absolute and deep silence within us. That in this space of silence we begin to feel the presence of God. In this silence it is possible to become the whole, enter the whole, abandon yourself within the whole, stop being a drop and become an ocean. It is the only temple where there are no walls.
- That there are no types of love. Love is love. Love is vibrational frequency. “Love” in which there is possession, jealousy, demands, demands, is not love. Love is unconditional, it is something that happens because you have a lot, that the more you give, the more you have.
- That love does not charge, does not condition, is given because we wanted to give and not in exchange for something (here in the theoretical part I already understood well ... lol). That who really loves, gives freedom to the other to be who he is.
- And that love begins with self-love, it is internal fulfillment, it is a place of my responsibility, of no one else. It is a very heavy burden to throw that responsibility on someone else's back. So we love each other, accept each other, we are unique, we are God's creation. Love is within, there is no need to seek it outside.
- That attachment is a very harmful thing to human beings. That we brought nothing and will take nothing from this world, that we know how to receive what has been made available to us, enjoy and enjoy, but when the time comes, that we know how to let go with a heart full of gratitude.
- That we need to let go for life to flow.
- That when we want a person for ourselves and demand that she leave her will to attend to ours, we prune her spontaneity, her essence, we imprison a masked and non-authentic person.
- That sexual energy is the energy of creation. And although sex has been repressed and denied, it is part of our physical, physiological and emotional nature. That sex is the path to superconsciousness, is the origin of life, and that if we are not well with our origin, we cannot be well with ourselves. How can it be seen as ugly, dirty, wrong, disgusting, bad, sin, if it is the source of life? Why do we still place it in the place of the forbidden, of the taboo, of something that must be hidden?
- You are both sexual and at the same time love, it cannot be dissociated.
- Sexual energy is a source of creativity, of fulfillment, it is life flowing in you. We are sexual beings. And what's wrong with that?
- That the idea of perfection makes us neurotic, which causes enormous harm to us all. That already in the first years of life they start to prune us, block us creativity, repress spontaneity, compare ourselves with others, encourage us to seek perfection, making us not accept ourselves, cover ourselves and want to be perfect. They begin to pressure us to be the ego and not us. They teach us that we must compete with each other and not share, cooperate, collaborate, build together. As a consequence, we are unhappy. Not that they do it consciously. They just do what they believe is best for us, or what they can do. It is necessary to break this cycle, as a perfectionist is hard on himself and also on others. Judges and condemns it impassively.
- That we should not worry about being perfect, but substituting the word perfection for wholeness. That one must accept as is, a great mystery of many multidimensional energies. Really feel what we are feeling, try to channel our feelings, whatever they are, in a productive way, so that they are naturally transmuted. It is feeling the anger that gets rid of the anger, it is feeling the sadness that lets it go ...
- That entering the path to return to our essence is an individual quest and that when we decide to grow, we need to face all the pains we repress, that it is not possible to ignore. And that their encounter and acceptance are painful, but liberating. And for that, only one thing can help us: raising the level of consciousness.
- That whoever lives thinking about what he has lived or only projecting a life in the future, in reality does not live. That you need to be in the here and now to be alive.
- That we can leave whatever we have done or lived in the past and that we are not waiting to live only in the future. Let us enjoy the present moment. That every second is unique, valuable and never comes back.
- That we are one, that there is no other, that we are mirrors to each other and that we are all interconnected. That everything I do to someone I do to myself. That life is intertwined and that everything is part of it. That it is a delight to become the dance when dancing, to become the water when bathing, to become the wind to feel it, to become the tree to touch it, to caress to become the caress, to kiss to become the kiss , by loving becoming love, and dissolving, overflowing ...
- That life is celebrating, that the smile is a prayer, that only a person who celebrates can become enlightened. That we should love life, allow ourselves to play, look at things lightly, with fun, that those who live with joy witness miracles happen.
- For these and other teachings, I am immensely grateful for Osho's existence and the legacy he left us.
- Gratitude for being inspired by the search for awareness, for growth, for development as a human being, for trying to align what I think, say and do, for allowing me to laugh, to be silly, to relax, to deconstruct, to joke about myself, the discovery of me and so many other things that life offers us.
I love you Osho!