Some Feelings..Some Words...From The Heart...

There was a rich man in a village who was a great miser. He never gave alms to the poor or to any charity. There was also a poor shoemaker in the same village, who was very generous. He gave something to every beggar coming to his hut and also his little to every charity project and noble cause. One day the miser died. Nobody mourned or prayed for his soul nor did anyone accompany his coffin buried well outside the village. As the days passed, there was a sudden change in the shoemaker who stopped all his charity too. He said now that he needed all his money. One day, the village priest went to him and asked about this change of heart. The shoemaker said with hesitation and tears, “Sir, many years ago the miser came to me with a huge sum of money and asked me to give it away in charity. He made me promise that I would never reveal this to anyone till he lived. Once a month, he visited me late in the night and gave the money for that month’s charity.” The priest called the village...

Only Osho could have expressed this above Truth so amazingly. He further explains that love creates fear since love is death. In the death we know of, only the body dies which is just like a dress. We drop the old body and acquire a new one. The form changes, yet the same mind/ego continue (an old wine in a new bottle). There is no real death. But love is real death since here the body does not die, but the mind/ego/our identity dies or dissolves. If you love, you cannot be the ego since the ego will not allow love. We have to choose between love and our ego. And so we are fearful in love since we have to drop ourselves now. Maybe, that is why true love (egoless) is vanishing from our pretentious world. What we call love today is just a false coin. The device is to live in a false love in which our ego continues to thrive. We have invented this false coin since without love life carries no meaning, no poetry, no dance within, no celebration, no gratitude, and above all no prayer. I...