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Osho Puterea Iubirii
One of the most important life events is falling in love, yet we never learn about it in school. Societies and religions force us into models and thought-forms that are often in opposition to an organic model of love, which is instead institutionalized by marriage, religious affiliations, and nationalism. This results in love that is, for most people, a painful challenge in one form or another throughout life. In these modern days, where the focus shifts more and more to realizing one's individual potential, Osho helps us to direct our search for love by widening our view - showing us that love has many manifestations and is not limited to the 'other'. One manifestation of love is meditation, a life-changing experience that allows the flowering of real love within oneself and toward others.
The Osho Life Essentials series focuses on the most important questions in the life of the individual. Each volume contains timeless yet contemporary investigations and discussions into questions vital to our personal search for meaning and purpose. The Osho Life Essentials series focuses on questions specific to our inner life and quality of existence; for example, is it possible to have an authentic spirituality without a belief in God? What is meditation and how does it work? What can I do as an individual to make the world a better place?
The Osho Life Essentials series focuses on the most important questions in the life of the individual. Each volume contains timeless yet contemporary investigations and discussions into questions vital to our personal search for meaning and purpose. The Osho Life Essentials series focuses on questions specific to our inner life and quality of existence; for example, is it possible to have an authentic spirituality without a belief in God? What is meditation and how does it work? What can I do as an individual to make the world a better place?
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Osho
4,291 books6,795 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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January 7, 2021
What an incredible personality, this Osho! Rarely one can come across someone who has such clarity of thought and power of expression. It is no wonder that he was termed as dangerous by people of his time. A delightful read this. Lots to learn and marvel— even if you disagree.
March 22, 2023
Absolutely lovely.
March 15, 2021
This book is structured like a Q&A thread, that’s why some people may find his angle repetitive.
“Love is not something that you do, love is something that you’re”. When you “do” means you’re using your head which is poisoned by many things. That’s not true love. True love must be from the heart. Do meditation, be awareness. Once you have a loving heart, the greatest power will be there at the same time (Not the power to enslave people but the power of creativity). You then will be transformed to the new being, boundaries between you and “the whole” would be gone. You got freedom.
Freedom nourish love and vice versa...That’s kind of a circle.
“Love is not something that you do, love is something that you’re”. When you “do” means you’re using your head which is poisoned by many things. That’s not true love. True love must be from the heart. Do meditation, be awareness. Once you have a loving heart, the greatest power will be there at the same time (Not the power to enslave people but the power of creativity). You then will be transformed to the new being, boundaries between you and “the whole” would be gone. You got freedom.
Freedom nourish love and vice versa...That’s kind of a circle.
March 31, 2025
The reason I took up "The Power of Love" was to possibly expand and extend my understanding of love, not only as a phenomenon of human feelings, but also as some kind of transcendental higher power. Honestly, maybe like 2% of this book offered truly interesting thoughts.
I'd point out my main reasons for conflict with the ideas author offers thus:
1) The thoughts are not finished. Meaning, the ideas author seems to believe in are not really fully explained, leaving you confused and unfulfilled. You feel like maybe there is something you could grasp onto and think about, but the idea is presented half-way.
2) Hate. The other half of the sentence is some sort of hateful speech towards priests and politicians, that take away your love and freedom, repress your natural desires, make you a slave. It is pointed out throughout the whole book. The generalizing, "you are shit beneath my feet, because I meditate (and have lots of sex?)" manner in which Osho speaks, the distinction between and the alienation of "people that hold power over your desires" and the "other people" - us, readers (he doesn't explain for whom this book is written for, so it seems it's meant for everyone, yet there are whole groups of people he distinguishes as if they are not cool enough to get his message) made me feel like I'm not really reading a book about love at all.
He says he is not a Communist, he doesn't believe humans are all equal, he says we are all unique instead - yet he generalizes and puts himself above others in different instances throughout the book.
3) Historic inaccuracy in some of the examples Osho offers. I'm a historian, and these inaccuracies seemed more like deliberate misleading elements, rather than honest misunderstandings of historic or ideological context. It's especially funny, because the same technique is also used by hated by him politicians and priests to grab attention and manipulate you into thinking from only one offered perspective as if it's the only real one.
In this point, I'd like to add also how the whole book is practically Western-oriented. It's supposed to make you feel better, more comfortable and more "spiritual" if you are coming from capitalist Western country, because of luxury of time on your hands and the luxury of not being poor - poor people have no feelings, is what the guru guy is saying.
4) Sex. The guy seems obsessed with it. I think sex is mentioned more times, than love. You never really learn what's love for Osho (there are several ideas offered though). Most of the book is taken up by "trash-talk at a marketplace" kind of judgemental rave over us being suppressed and repressed. For example, Osho points out that the US army is basically the shittiest, (yet most progressive, somehow), because the soldiers come from the West and they are not sexually repressed, they know what's Love and they are who they are, they could never beat Vietnam or Russian army, cause these guys are sexually super repressed and thus more violent and killing-oriented. The way out of this repressed condition is - you have to let everything go, become empty, get laid with anyone you feel like (it's love (lust?) and should be cherished and used up any moment you feel it), meditate.
To sum up, the above-mentioned stuff really bothered me. You know how sometimes reading a book is almost like meditation? You get into this higher plane kind of space? Didn't happen with this one. Personally, I don't harbor any hate towards sex whatsoever, it is, in fact, pure energy and a physical manifestation of love. I just didn't understand and thus did not like how there were so many things mixed up all in one book in a complete disarray, that was supposed to be about love. I understand it's a compilation of Osho's speeches, but the rhetoric was completely screwed up in this one and not worth to read.
I'd point out my main reasons for conflict with the ideas author offers thus:
1) The thoughts are not finished. Meaning, the ideas author seems to believe in are not really fully explained, leaving you confused and unfulfilled. You feel like maybe there is something you could grasp onto and think about, but the idea is presented half-way.
2) Hate. The other half of the sentence is some sort of hateful speech towards priests and politicians, that take away your love and freedom, repress your natural desires, make you a slave. It is pointed out throughout the whole book. The generalizing, "you are shit beneath my feet, because I meditate (and have lots of sex?)" manner in which Osho speaks, the distinction between and the alienation of "people that hold power over your desires" and the "other people" - us, readers (he doesn't explain for whom this book is written for, so it seems it's meant for everyone, yet there are whole groups of people he distinguishes as if they are not cool enough to get his message) made me feel like I'm not really reading a book about love at all.
He says he is not a Communist, he doesn't believe humans are all equal, he says we are all unique instead - yet he generalizes and puts himself above others in different instances throughout the book.
3) Historic inaccuracy in some of the examples Osho offers. I'm a historian, and these inaccuracies seemed more like deliberate misleading elements, rather than honest misunderstandings of historic or ideological context. It's especially funny, because the same technique is also used by hated by him politicians and priests to grab attention and manipulate you into thinking from only one offered perspective as if it's the only real one.
In this point, I'd like to add also how the whole book is practically Western-oriented. It's supposed to make you feel better, more comfortable and more "spiritual" if you are coming from capitalist Western country, because of luxury of time on your hands and the luxury of not being poor - poor people have no feelings, is what the guru guy is saying.
4) Sex. The guy seems obsessed with it. I think sex is mentioned more times, than love. You never really learn what's love for Osho (there are several ideas offered though). Most of the book is taken up by "trash-talk at a marketplace" kind of judgemental rave over us being suppressed and repressed. For example, Osho points out that the US army is basically the shittiest, (yet most progressive, somehow), because the soldiers come from the West and they are not sexually repressed, they know what's Love and they are who they are, they could never beat Vietnam or Russian army, cause these guys are sexually super repressed and thus more violent and killing-oriented. The way out of this repressed condition is - you have to let everything go, become empty, get laid with anyone you feel like (it's love (lust?) and should be cherished and used up any moment you feel it), meditate.
To sum up, the above-mentioned stuff really bothered me. You know how sometimes reading a book is almost like meditation? You get into this higher plane kind of space? Didn't happen with this one. Personally, I don't harbor any hate towards sex whatsoever, it is, in fact, pure energy and a physical manifestation of love. I just didn't understand and thus did not like how there were so many things mixed up all in one book in a complete disarray, that was supposed to be about love. I understand it's a compilation of Osho's speeches, but the rhetoric was completely screwed up in this one and not worth to read.
January 15, 2018
Like all the Osho essentials publications since they are published after his death they contain many repetitive ideas and concepts that have been present on older Osho books that’s why I’ve rated it 3 cause the new concepts that I enjoyed and found new kind of are almost 40% of the book. Yet I can’t say but Osho is the master and he tackles issues smoothly in a river like flow. It’s worth reading if you like to get a new perspective about love and mainly unconditional love.
December 31, 2018
Cred ca e cea mai buna carte pe care eu am citit-o de la Osho, chiar daca nu ma reprezinta 100% in toate afirmatiile ( insa nici nu trebuie). Ce nu mi-a placut ca apar niste etichete pe care in mod normal nu ar trebui sa apara intr-o carte a lui Osho (prost, e urat...etc - tocmai asta proclama el, ideea de meditatie si de a elimina etichetele mintii). Insa poate provin totusi de la traducere.
In rest e o carte buna..despre ce inseamna iubirea in conceptia sa si de la care poti intelege multe lucruri interesante
In rest e o carte buna..despre ce inseamna iubirea in conceptia sa si de la care poti intelege multe lucruri interesante
May 27, 2022
Achei o livro um pouco "chato". Acabei por nao me identificar com algumas passagens e acho que existem críticas que são referidas constantemente.
Passagem que gostei: "por isso sejam um rio, a fluir em direção ao oceano, em direção a Deus, ao infinito, e no entanto, sejam totalmente apaixonados pelas margens por onde forem passando... pelas montanhas, pelos dias, e as noites, e as pessoas."
Passagem que gostei: "por isso sejam um rio, a fluir em direção ao oceano, em direção a Deus, ao infinito, e no entanto, sejam totalmente apaixonados pelas margens por onde forem passando... pelas montanhas, pelos dias, e as noites, e as pessoas."
November 21, 2025
'Freedom and Love - An intelligent man is the one who manages both without sacrificing either for the other.' Osho talks about how love has been gravely misunderstood and how it should 'be' spontaneous without effort. He has intrigued me to look into Friedrich Nietzsche.
January 25, 2020
Motivating book
December 23, 2021
Es Osho...no tengo más que decir.
February 1, 2023
This just wasn’t for me
May 31, 2023
This book is controversial, with some potentially life changing perspectives. Great self soothing nighttime read
August 19, 2023
Nu am cuvinte, Osho mi-a deschis orizontul și m-a educat împotriva tuturor prejudecăților si îndoctrinarilor existe in lume. Ii voi rămâne recunoscătoare mereu.
December 5, 2023
Love is such a powerful force. I have never understood its essence and implications before reading this book.
November 5, 2022
O carte cât o sesiune de terapie.📖
August 3, 2016
In The Power of Love, Osho delivers an insightful and inspiring exploration of what he calls the purest power in the world—and one of the most important benedictions of human experience. “Love,” he tells us, “is the greatest gift of existence.” It is well that Osho is there to remind us of such things.
In these pages, Osho explores love and its many facets—from relationships and Tantra to meditation and mindfulness; from marriage and friendship to aloneness and bliss. As he so often does, Osho brings lucidity and understanding to this subject, encouraging the reader to see and think about love in a new light.
Osho’s many jokes and stories interwoven through the text bring his characteristic lighthearted touch to the discussions. His references to relevant myths and mystical figures—from Jesus and Krishna to Buddha and Meera—provide sparks of insight and flashes of revelation. The book itself is the perfect length—not overly long to get too bogged down in, but nevertheless possessing a formidable depth, like a still forest pond whose surface belies its true hidden nature.
In an era where fear, narcissism, and coercion threaten to fall like shadows over the world, The Power of Love is a timely and welcome guidebook for anyone seeking to find a new landscape within themselves. Reading these wise words, you may even be tempted to agree with Osho, not only about love’s power, but also about its essential nature. As Osho says, “Love is the nourishment of the soul.”
In these pages, Osho explores love and its many facets—from relationships and Tantra to meditation and mindfulness; from marriage and friendship to aloneness and bliss. As he so often does, Osho brings lucidity and understanding to this subject, encouraging the reader to see and think about love in a new light.
Osho’s many jokes and stories interwoven through the text bring his characteristic lighthearted touch to the discussions. His references to relevant myths and mystical figures—from Jesus and Krishna to Buddha and Meera—provide sparks of insight and flashes of revelation. The book itself is the perfect length—not overly long to get too bogged down in, but nevertheless possessing a formidable depth, like a still forest pond whose surface belies its true hidden nature.
In an era where fear, narcissism, and coercion threaten to fall like shadows over the world, The Power of Love is a timely and welcome guidebook for anyone seeking to find a new landscape within themselves. Reading these wise words, you may even be tempted to agree with Osho, not only about love’s power, but also about its essential nature. As Osho says, “Love is the nourishment of the soul.”
May 29, 2018
Este não é o primeiro livro que leio deste autor. Apesar de serem obras que nos colocam a refletir acerca das diferentes temáticas da vida e de não ser o meu tipo de leitura preferido, estes livros têm-me surpreendido pelo quão pertinentes se têm mostrado.
Em "O Poder do Amor", OSHO ajuda-nos a fazer uma introspetiva daquilo que consideramos ser o amor. Ou melhor, daqui que deverias considerar ser o amor na nossa vida. Muitas vezes pensamos que o amor se baseia nos atos que temos para com aqueles que nos são mais próximos. Contudo, neste livro, OSHO mostra-nos que o amor poderá estar presente em muitas outras formas e atos. Porque, tal como OSHO diz, "O amor é a maior dádiva da existência. (...) Trata-se de uma necessidade absoluta.".
OSHO trata ainda de explorar o amor nas suas diversas faces: tanto em termos de relações com os outros como no que diz respeito à meditação. Este último tem sido um tema recorrente nas obras de OSHO. Mas talvez este nos esteja a tentar mostrar o quão importante a meditação poderá ser para cada um de nós.
Achei bastante interessante alguns "contos" que OSHO foi deixando ao leitor ao longo das páginas do livro. Apesar de inicialmente não ter percebido muito bem o seu contexto, acabei por compreender que todas as temáticas que foram abordadas podem ser transportas para o nosso quotidiano.
Foi, com certeza, uma leitura diferente que me permitiu ver algumas das situações da vida quotidiana de forma diferente!
Em "O Poder do Amor", OSHO ajuda-nos a fazer uma introspetiva daquilo que consideramos ser o amor. Ou melhor, daqui que deverias considerar ser o amor na nossa vida. Muitas vezes pensamos que o amor se baseia nos atos que temos para com aqueles que nos são mais próximos. Contudo, neste livro, OSHO mostra-nos que o amor poderá estar presente em muitas outras formas e atos. Porque, tal como OSHO diz, "O amor é a maior dádiva da existência. (...) Trata-se de uma necessidade absoluta.".
OSHO trata ainda de explorar o amor nas suas diversas faces: tanto em termos de relações com os outros como no que diz respeito à meditação. Este último tem sido um tema recorrente nas obras de OSHO. Mas talvez este nos esteja a tentar mostrar o quão importante a meditação poderá ser para cada um de nós.
Achei bastante interessante alguns "contos" que OSHO foi deixando ao leitor ao longo das páginas do livro. Apesar de inicialmente não ter percebido muito bem o seu contexto, acabei por compreender que todas as temáticas que foram abordadas podem ser transportas para o nosso quotidiano.
Foi, com certeza, uma leitura diferente que me permitiu ver algumas das situações da vida quotidiana de forma diferente!
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March 28, 2017Terminamos o nosso périplo pelos livros de pensamento positivo e auto ajuda com este exemplar de Osho.
Estamos diante de uma reflexão sobre o amor e o "eu" interior de cada um.
Este livro está longe de ser o nosso favorito ou que leríamos por mote próprio, mas aceitámos o desafio feito há algum tempo pela editora. Não ficámos fãs, talvez porque não buscamos aquilo que o livro tem para oferecer.
Devemos dizer que é um texto muito explicativo e até denso, apesar de não ser muito grande.
Continuação e classificação: http://livrosdevidro.wixsite.com/livr...
Estamos diante de uma reflexão sobre o amor e o "eu" interior de cada um.
Este livro está longe de ser o nosso favorito ou que leríamos por mote próprio, mas aceitámos o desafio feito há algum tempo pela editora. Não ficámos fãs, talvez porque não buscamos aquilo que o livro tem para oferecer.
Devemos dizer que é um texto muito explicativo e até denso, apesar de não ser muito grande.
Continuação e classificação: http://livrosdevidro.wixsite.com/livr...
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