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Why Is Love So Painful?: and: real and false masters - stop playing games - the right education
Osho describes love as transformation. It is painful because it transforms and transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. While the old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. With love we will be moving in an uncharted ocean.
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35 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 31, 2012
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Osho
4,296 books6,801 followersRajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
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July 7, 2017
Actually this is my first book in English, this year I hope to read more in English.
I learned a lot reading this one, especially about “why we are so afraid to love someone…”
(Also a lot of new words, definitely to read in English it’s a beautiful experience.)
I learned a lot reading this one, especially about “why we are so afraid to love someone…”
(Also a lot of new words, definitely to read in English it’s a beautiful experience.)
November 3, 2014
so much wisdom, but sporadically peppered with propaganda-like negativity.
November 24, 2015
I read the entire book, but this rating is for the "Why Is Love So Painful?" essay alone. The others didn't speak to me.
April 1, 2018
This book is not written by Osho himself. Osho foundation has converted his audio sermons and compiled into a book.
Osho's sermons regarding LOVE/SEX, RELIGION, EDUCATION & WAR is compiled in this. His views on love/sex and religion are heretical. Osho was trying to create his own religion with new kind of followers known as 'Zobra the Buddha'. In this quest he became very skeptical to other religion's beliefs.
While the thoughts on education and war are more logical and really enlightening. The book does not explore much on "why love is so painful"
Osho's sermons regarding LOVE/SEX, RELIGION, EDUCATION & WAR is compiled in this. His views on love/sex and religion are heretical. Osho was trying to create his own religion with new kind of followers known as 'Zobra the Buddha'. In this quest he became very skeptical to other religion's beliefs.
While the thoughts on education and war are more logical and really enlightening. The book does not explore much on "why love is so painful"
January 19, 2021
The title of the book doesn't justify the content of it..
I was expecting to know more about "pain and love" but the content revolves around being unconscious vs. conscious self. Nevertheless, it's still a good book as a starter for opening your eyes to what's hidden behind.
I was expecting to know more about "pain and love" but the content revolves around being unconscious vs. conscious self. Nevertheless, it's still a good book as a starter for opening your eyes to what's hidden behind.
September 12, 2021
A real leader whom many ones should follow to lead society to an unknown terrane
A real leader whom many ones should follow to lead society to an unknown terrene. He is a master who should have lived for centuries to guide more and more ignorants like us
A real leader whom many ones should follow to lead society to an unknown terrene. He is a master who should have lived for centuries to guide more and more ignorants like us
September 4, 2022
A veces me costaba entenderlo. Me hubiera gustado otro narrador.
July 10, 2015
Name of the book starts with a question mark but I really didn't get my answer. Its all philosophy and its about education and politicians.
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