How can true dispassion arise from love, given that love brings attachment?
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definition
"Love is a doorway; when transformed into prayer and awareness, it blossoms as dispassion, allowing intimacy without clinging."
According to Osho, love itself is neutral—like a ladder or doorway. If it sinks into lust and possessiveness, it hardens into attachment; if it is refined into prayer and awareness, it blossoms as dispassion. Don’t suppress love; transform and release it toward the divine. The same energy, rightly used, becomes fragrance: freedom without indifference, intimacy without clinging.
Love is like manure: hoard it as lust and it stinks (attachment); spread it as prayer and it makes flowers (dispassion).
Why this matters practically
- Helps you turn strong feelings into freedom through prayer, meditation, and awareness instead of clinging.
- Prevents repression that breeds inner rot and outer violence; encourages creative transformation.
- Lets you love deeply without needing to possess, reducing jealousy and fear.
- Prevents repression that breeds inner rot and outer violence; encourages creative transformation.
- Lets you love deeply without needing to possess, reducing jealousy and fear.
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