Compassion: The Ultimate Flowering of Love

Compassion: The Ultimate Flowering of Love
The Ultimate Flowering of Love
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Many so-called acts of compassion, he says, are tainted by a subtle sense of self-importance and a desire for recognition. Others are based on the desire to not really help others, but force them to change. Using stories from the life of Jesus, Buddha and the world of Zen, Osho shows how the path to authentic compassion arises from within, beginning with a deep acceptance and love of oneself.
Chapter Titles
    #1: Part One: Compassion, Energy and Desire
    #2: Compassion Is Love Come of Age
    #3: Meditation the Flower and Compassion the Fragrance
    #4: A Desire Is a Desire Is a Desire – Responses to Questions
    #5: Part Two: Sheeps Clothing – What Compassion Is Not
    #6: Loving Kindness and Other Delusions of Grandeur
    #7: The Zen Master and the Thief – a Parable of Forgiveness

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Osho Insights for a New Way of Living Series. With a radically different perspective, Osho challenges our assumptions about what compassion really is, pointing out that the root of the word is passion.

Excerpt from: Compassion, Chapter 1
"When passion becomes alert and aware, the whole energy of love comes to a refinement; it becomes compassion. Love is always addressed to one person, and its deepest desire is to possess that person. The same is the case from the other side – and it creates hell for both people.

"Compassion is not addressed to anybody. It is not a relationship, it is simply your very being. You enjoy being compassionate to the trees, to the birds, to the animals, to human beings, to everybody – unconditionally, not asking for anything in return. Compassion is freedom from blind biology.

"Before you become enlightened, you should keep alert that your love energy is not repressed.That’s what old religions have been doing: they teach you to condemn the biological expressions of your love. So you repress your love energy…and that is the energy that can be transformed into compassion!

"With condemnation, there is no possibility of transformation." Osho
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
living… zen… insights… compassion… self-importance… desire… recognition… acceptance… love… healing…

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Type    Compilations
Publisher    St. Martins Press, USA
ISBN    0312365683
ISBN-13    978-0312365684
Dimensions (size)    5.5 x 0.6 x 8.2 inches
Number of Pages    192
Additional Media    With DVD