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to share it. It is a natural phenomenon, to share it. And that's what love is: sharing of your bliss.
Freedom brings bliss, bliss brings love, then life becomes a fulfilment, a deep contentment.
I Am Not As Thunk As You Drink I Am
Chapter #5
Chapter title: None
5 October 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8010055
ShortTitle: THUNK05
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]
(Love needs courage -- that is the meaning of his name, Prem Andreas, Osho tells the first sannyasin tonight.)
Love is a potential in man but not an actuality. Everybody is born with the seed but very few people are capable of transforming it into reality. That's why you don't see so many joyful people in the world, blissful people in the world. Everywhere there is great misery, darkness. People are somehow managing to live but there is no dance, no song, no music in their lives. They are living life as a curse, not as a blessing, for the simple reason that they have taken it for granted that love is a reality. It is not. It has to be realised.
Of course the potential is there, the possibility is there, the seed is there, but one needs courage to grow it. And why courage? -- because the basic requirement for love's growth is dropping the idea of the ego. Both cannot be together, ego and love. If one remains enclosed in the ego love remains only a potential, a hope, a promise which is never going to be fulfilled. If one comes out of the imprisonment of the ego then suddenly there is great rejoicing in your being, love starts growing.
To be in a growing state of love is to be a sannyasin. To realise the ultimate in love is to be awakened, to be enlightened, to be a Christ or to be a Buddha.
(Meditation is a holiday from the mind, Osho tells Dhyan Catherine.)
Otherwise all holidays are false because the mind goes on running. In fact on holidays it is more crazy because it has all the space, all the time, to go as insane as
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