Love Is Not an Emotion but an Expression of Your Being
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"There is certainly something very similar in very different emotions: the overwhelmingness. It may be love, it may be hate, it may be anger – it can be anything. If it is too much then..."
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"There is certainly something very similar in very different emotions: the overwhelmingness. It may be love, it may be hate, it may be anger – it can be anything. If it is too much then..."
Osho continues:
"Reduced to its base, whenever you are overwhelmed by any emotion you lose all reason, you lose all sensitivity, you lose your heart in it. It becomes almost like a dark cloud in which you are lost. Then whatever you do is going to be wrong.
"Love is not to be a part of your emotions. Ordinarily that's what people think and experience, but anything overwhelming is very unstable. It comes like a wind and passes by, leaving you behind, empty, shattered, in sadness and in sorrow.
"According to those who know man's whole being – his mind, his heart and his being – love has to be an expression of your being, not an emotion.
"Emotion is very fragile, very changing.
"One moment it seems that is all.
"Another moment you are simply empty.
"So the first thing to do is to take love out of this crowd of overwhelming emotions. Love is not overwhelming. On the contrary, love is a tremendous insight, clarity, sensitivity, awareness. But that kind of love rarely exists, because very few people ever reach to their being.
"There are people who love their cars…Niskriya loves his camera…! That love is of the mind. And then you love your wife, your husband and your children – that love is of the heart. But because it needs change to remain alive, and you cannot allow it its changeability, it becomes stale. The same husband every day – it is such a boring experience. It dulls your sensitivity, it dulls every possibility of joy. You slowly start forgetting the language of laughter. Life becomes simply work without any joy. And one has to work because one has a wife and one has children.
"I have heard…
"An old couple appeared in court. The husband was ninety and the wife must have been eighty-five; they wanted a divorce.
"The judge could not believe his eyes. He said, 'At this age? Any moment you can pop off. What are you asking for? What will you do with the divorce? How long have you been married?'
"The man said, 'It must have been at least sixty years or even more.'
"The judge said, 'I cannot believe how you lived together for sixty years, and now at the end of your life, you want a divorce? Why have you waited so long?'
"The old man said, 'We had to wait till all our children died! Now is the chance to be free and enjoy life.'
"Their whole lives they lived together – it must have been utterly stale."
"Love is not to be a part of your emotions. Ordinarily that's what people think and experience, but anything overwhelming is very unstable. It comes like a wind and passes by, leaving you behind, empty, shattered, in sadness and in sorrow.
"According to those who know man's whole being – his mind, his heart and his being – love has to be an expression of your being, not an emotion.
"Emotion is very fragile, very changing.
"One moment it seems that is all.
"Another moment you are simply empty.
"So the first thing to do is to take love out of this crowd of overwhelming emotions. Love is not overwhelming. On the contrary, love is a tremendous insight, clarity, sensitivity, awareness. But that kind of love rarely exists, because very few people ever reach to their being.
"There are people who love their cars…Niskriya loves his camera…! That love is of the mind. And then you love your wife, your husband and your children – that love is of the heart. But because it needs change to remain alive, and you cannot allow it its changeability, it becomes stale. The same husband every day – it is such a boring experience. It dulls your sensitivity, it dulls every possibility of joy. You slowly start forgetting the language of laughter. Life becomes simply work without any joy. And one has to work because one has a wife and one has children.
"I have heard…
"An old couple appeared in court. The husband was ninety and the wife must have been eighty-five; they wanted a divorce.
"The judge could not believe his eyes. He said, 'At this age? Any moment you can pop off. What are you asking for? What will you do with the divorce? How long have you been married?'
"The man said, 'It must have been at least sixty years or even more.'
"The judge said, 'I cannot believe how you lived together for sixty years, and now at the end of your life, you want a divorce? Why have you waited so long?'
"The old man said, 'We had to wait till all our children died! Now is the chance to be free and enjoy life.'
"Their whole lives they lived together – it must have been utterly stale."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 59 mins |
| File Size | 15.93 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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