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Osho Quotes on Pleasure

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When longing transcends pleasure and pain, you step off the coin of duality, discovering a quieter joy that exists beyond clinging and seeking.

Context: What happens when one experiences a longing that transcends pleasure and pain? Read Original Discourse →

Embrace the pleasure that arises within you during a lecture; it is the awakening of your innate joy, meant to be welcomed and deepened, not repressed by the fears of society.

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Worldly pleasures entice us with their fleeting nature, but it is this very impermanence that transforms joy into sorrow; true bliss lies in the eternal, untouched by decay.

Context: What is the relationship between the fleeting nature of worldly pleasures and their attraction? Read Original Discourse →

To renounce worldly pleasures is to deny the beauty of existence; true awakening comes not from avoidance, but from the conscious experience and transcendence of all that life offers.

Context: Why have past Buddhas expressed themselves against money and sex as sources of worldly pleasures? Read Original Discourse →