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Osho - If Love has attachment in it, it is Lust
Osho - When lust is transformed and you
enter into the city of love, you enter unattached.
Remember, that is their definition of love. If love
has attachment in it, it is lust, If love has no
attachment in it, only then is it not lust. When you
are in lust you are not really thinking of the
other, thinking of your beloved or lover. You are
simply using the other for your own ends. And of
course, attachment is bound to be there, because you
would like to possess him, and you would like to
possess him or her forever. Because tomorrow also
you may need, the day after tomorrow also you may
need. You need a lover and you want to possess him.
LOVE is a gift. You give; you need not be worried
about whether tomorrow he will be there to receive
or not. Because a lover can give to the trees, to
the rocks. A lover can give to the emptiness of the
sky. A lover can simply flower and send his
fragrance to the winds, even if nobody is there.
Just think: Buddha sitting under his Bodhi tree,
alone, full of love, overflowing.... Not that
somebody is there to receive, but God is always
there to receive, in so many forms, in so many ways.
Lust is greed, lust is attachment, lust is
possessiveness. Love needs no possession, love knows
no attachment, because love is not greed. Love is a
gift. It is a sharing. You have found something;
your heart is full, your fruits are ripe. You hanker
that somebody should come and share. It is
unconditional; who shares does not matter. But you
are so full of it that you would like to be
unburdened -- as when clouds are full of rainwater,
they rain. Sometimes they rain in a forest,
sometimes they rain on a hill, sometimes they rain
in a desert, but they rain. The fact of where they
rain is irrelevant. They are so full they have to
rain. A lover is so full he becomes a cloud, full of
lovewater; he has to rain. That raining is
spontaneous.
Source - Osho Book "The Beloved, Volume2" |