Core Insight:
According to Osho, love is a three-rung ladder: sex (lowest), love (middle), and prayer (highest). Compassion mirrors these levels: at the first it's an egoic 'duty'; at the second it's quiet sympathy—natural, unboastful; at the third it becomes empathy—true at-one-ment, the Buddha's compassion. Real compassion arises when passion is transformed into prayer through awareness; otherwise helping only strengthens the 'I'.