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Awareness(15):

Love leads to the ultimate experience_called God, called the Absolute, called the Truth. These are only names. In fact the ultimate has no name. It is nameless, but love leads towards it.

Remember, love knows no boundaries. Love can not be jealous, because love can not possess. It is ugly, the very idea that you possess somebody because you love. You possess somebody_it means you have killed somebody and turned him to a commodity.

Only things can be possessed. Love gives freedom. Love is freedom.

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Awareness(14):

The moment love becomes attachment, love becomes a relationship. The moment love becomes demanding, it is a prison. It has destroyed your freedom. You can not fly in the sky, you are en caged.

Love has to be of the quality that gives freedom, not new chains for you. A love that gives you wings and supports you to fly as high as possible.

If love is understood as the meeting of two souls_not just a sexual, biological meeting of a male and female hormones_then love can give you great wings, it can give you great insights into life. And lovers can become for the first time friends. Otherwise they have always been enemies in disguise.

The religions and the so_called saints who have escaped from the world, who can not face and encounter life, have poisoned the whole idea of love as the only spirituality. They have condemned sex, and with their condemnation of sex, they have also condemned love, because people think sex and love are synonymous. They are not.

Sex is a very small part of your biological energy. Love is your whole being, love is your soul. You have to learn that sex is simply a need of the society, of the race, to continue itself_you can participate if you want. But you can not avoid love. The moment you avoid love all your creativity dies and all your senses become insensitive. Great dust gather around you. You become the living dead.

Yes, you breathe and you eat and you talk and you go to the office every day till death comes and release you from the boredom that you were carrying your whole life.

If sex is all that you have then you don't have anything. Then you are just an instrument of biology, of the universe, to reproduce. You are just a machine. But if you can conceive love as your real being, and loving another person as a deep friendship, as a dance of two hearts together with such synchronicity that they become almost one, you don't need any other spirituality. You have found it.

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Awareness(13):

Love is universal. Love doesn't invite only a few people to celebrate, love invites the stars and the sun and the flowers and the birds. The whole existence is welcome to celebrate.

Love doesn't need anything else_a night full of stars, what more can you ask for? Just a few friends... and the whole universe is friendly. I have never come across a tree who was against me. I have been to many mountains, but i have never found any mountains antagonistic. The whole existence is very friendly.

Once you own understanding of love blossoms, there is no question of attachment at all. You can go on changing your partners, that doesn't mean you are deserting anybody. You may come back again to the same partner, there is no question of any prejudice.

Man should understand himself to be just like a child playing on the sea beach, collecting seashells, colored stones and immensely enjoying, as if he has found a great treasure. If a person can enjoy small things of life, can live in freedom and can allow others to live in freedom, this whole world can become a totally different kind of world. Then it will have a quality of beauty, grace. It will have great luminosity, every heart on fire. And once you know the fire, the flames go on growing. Flames of love grow just like trees grow. Flames of love bring flowers and fruits, just as tree do.

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Awareness(12):

Love is the only freedom from attachment.... because when you love you can not even think of anything else. When you love everything, you attached to nothing. Each moment comes with new splendor, new glory, new songs. Each moment brings new dances. Perhaps partners may changes, but love remains.

Attachment is the desire that the partner should never change. For that you have to commit to the court, to the society_all stupid formalities. And if you go against those formalities, you will lose all respect and honor in the eyes of the people amongst whom you have to live.

Love knows nothing of attachment because love knows no possibility of falling from dignity. Love is the very honor itself. You can not do anything against it. I am not saying that partners can not change, but that it does not matter. If partners change but love remains like a river, flowing, then in fact the world will have much more love than it has today. Today, it is just like a tap_drip, drip, drip. It is not able to quench anybody's thirst. Love needs to be oceanic, not the drip, drip of a public tap.

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Awareness(11):

Attached to nothing,

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything you are attached to nothing.

In fact, one has to understand the very phenomenon of attachment. Why do you cling to something? Because you are afraid you will lose it. Perhaps somebody may steal it. Your fear is that what is available to you today may not be available to you tomorrow.

Who knows about what is going to happen tomorrow? The woman you love or the man you love_either movement is possible:

You may become closer, you may become distant. You may become again strangers or you may become so one with each other that even to say that you are two will not be right. Of course there are two bodies, but the heart is one, and the ecstasy surrounds you both like a cloud. You disappear in that ecstasy:

You are not you, I am not I. Love becomes so total, love is so great and overwhelming, that you can not remain yourself. You have to drown yourself and disappear.

In that disappearance who is going to be attached, and to whom?

Everything IS.

When love blossoms in it's totality, everything simply is. The fear of tomorrow does not arise. Hence there is no question of attachment, clinging, marriage, of any kind of contract, bondage.

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Awareness(10):

The Virtues of selfishness,

If you are not selfish you will not be altruistic, remember. If you are not selfish you will not be unselfish, remember. Only a very deeply selfish person can be unselfish. But this has to be understood because it looks like a paradox.

What is the meaning of being selfish? The first basic thing is to be self-centered. The second basic thing is always to look for one's blissfulness. If you are self-centered, you will be selfish whatsoever you do. You may go and serve people but you will do it only because you enjoy it, because you love doing it, you feel happy and blissful doing it-you feel yourself doing it. You are not doing any duty, you are not serving humanity. You are not a great martyr, you are not sacrificing. These are all nonsensical terms. You are simply being happy in your own way-it feels good to you.

A self-centered person is always seeking his happiness. And this is the beauty of it, that the more you seek your happiness the more you will help others to be happy. Because that is the only way to be happy in the world. If everybody else around you is unhappy, you can not be happy, because man is not an island. He is part of the vast continent. If you want to be happy, you will have to help others who surround you to be happy. Then_and only then_can you be happy.

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Awareness(9):

Your mind is constantly projecting-projecting itself. Your mind is constantly interfering with reality, giving it a color, shape, and form that are not its own. Your mind never allows you to see that which is. It allows you to see only that which it WANTS TO SEE.

Meditation means putting the mind aside so that it no longer interferes with reality and you can see things as they are.

Why does the mind interfere at all? Because the mind is created by society. It is society's agent within you. It is not in your service, remember! It is your mind but its not in your service. It is in a conspiracy against you. It has been conditioned by society. Society has implanted many things in it. It is your mind but it no longer functions as a servant to you, it functions as servant to society.

You have to put these minds aside: The communist mind, the fascist mind, the catholic mind, .....

There are three thousand religions on the earth_big religions and small religions and very small sects and sects within sects_ three thousand in all. So there exist three thousand minds, types of mind_and reality is one, and existence is one, and truth is one!