Passion

Swami Yog Chinmay has asked: You say that when, at the feet of the true Master, one finds diamonds and jewels, then the pebbles and stones fall away. Then why are our passions still not falling away?

The same notions, the same worn‑out notions—the same junk is stuffed in your head! Where am I asking you to give anything up? I am telling you: live as though everything is His. That beautiful woman is also He, and the radiance that has come into your eyes because of that beautiful woman is also He—live like that. Why are you carrying this division? When will you drop it? You listen to me every day—Chinmay has been listening for years—yet somewhere inside you are preserving the old notions, hugging them to your chest. So you keep measuring by them: “It still hasn’t happened. Dispassion hasn’t arisen yet; passion is still arising.” I tell you: passion too is His. The day you surrender with the understanding that everything is His—that is what I call dispassion. In dispassion, passion will not die; only the ego will no longer be the center of…

Beloved master, is there some spiritual passion of the heart that needs to drop away as has the driving force of body passions? There is essentially such longing to reach my fellow travelers. When it does not happen -- the nearer the friend is to my heart, the more I fall off center into an anguish that feels like something dying in my hands or something left unborn. Seeing paradise lost, the dream of growing and soaring up together with another -- is that my soul's agony to go astray?

Love is not part of your body system. Love is a hidden source in the body of pure energy which can make anybody rejoice, can quench the thirst. And unless your energy called the heart, blossoms, you are not perfectly alive, you are just a robot. Mind is a computer. Just the other day I received the news that for fifteen years in Japan they have been keeping the head of a monkey without the body, wired with all kinds of nourishment that the brain needs. And because they have been successful, now they are going to try on human beings. Just your head is enough; then mechanical lungs and mechanical wiring, blood that is needed for your brain -- reaching through the wires, being purified by the mechanical lungs and you will be perfectly alive. And the strangest thing is that you will feel love, you will feel emotions,…

Beloved Osho, does returning to the heart center mean becoming more passionate? Is the heart also the source of passion? Can a man who is authentically centered at the heart be called passionate?

Sex can easily become violence because it is passion, it is rape. Love, the heart center or the love center, is totally different. It is nonviolent, it is passive, not even active. It can come to you like a very silent perfume, and that too when you invite. That's why persons like Buddha or Jesus, they have much love, but we cannot feel their love, because we can feel love only when it is too violent. We have become addicted to violence. And Buddha's love is so silent. It showers on us but we cannot feel it, we have become so insensitive. Only when someone attacks do we start feeling. The heart center is not the center of passion, but is the center of compassion. And compassion is absolutely different from passion, just the opposite. It is non-aggressive energy, moving without any noise, but you have to become very sensitive…

The buddha said: those who have passions are never able to perceive the way, for it is like stirring up clear water with hands. People may come there wishing to find a reflection of their faces which however they will never see. A mind troubled and vexed with passions is impure, and on that account it never sees the way. O monks, do away with passions. When the dirt of passion is removed the way will manifest itself. The buddha said: seeing the way is like going into a dark room with a torch. The darkness instantly departs while the light alone remains. When the way is attained and the truth i

Whatsoever meaning we give to life, we give it to life. And Buddha is saying if you want to know the real meaning of life, then you have to drop giving all meanings to it. Then the way reveals itself. Then life opens its mysterious doors. You stop giving meaning to it -- your desires are giving meaning to it; they are defining the undefinable. And if you remain clouded with your desires, whatsoever you know is nothing but your own dreaming. That's why we say in India that this life, this so-called life lived through desires, is maya, it is a magical thing. You create it, you are the magician. It is your maya, your magic. We don't live in the same world, remember. We live in separate worlds, because we don't live in the same desires. You project your desires, your neighbour is projecting his desires. That's why…