Life - Love - Light !
Life is given to you. You are alive... Light is present... But you have to make a bridge between life and light. That bridge is love! With these three L's you can make a total 'Way of Life', a way of being, a new way of being.
Bauls are not philosophers.
They are more like poets.
They sing, they dance, they don't philosophize. In fact, they are almost anti-philosophical. Because they have come to see that whenever a man becomes too head-oriented, he becomes incapable of love. And love is going to be the bridge...
A man who becomes too head-oriented, goes farther away from the heart, and the heart is the center which responds to the call of love. A head-oriented man is cut off from the universe. He lives in the universe, but lives as if in a deep stupor.
He lives in the universe, but lives as a tree that has lost its roots. He lives only for name's sake: the sap of life is no more flowing. He has lost contact, he's unconnected. That is what alienation is.
The modern man feels too alienated.
Feels too much an outsider.
Does not feel at home.
At ease with life, existence, the world.
He feels almost as if he has been thrown into it.
And it is a curse rather than a blessing.
Why has this happened?
Too much head orientation !
Too much training of the head has cut all the roots from the heart.
There are many people - I have observed thousands of people - who don't know what the heart is, they bypass. The heart is throbbing, but the energy no longer moves via it.
They bypass it, they go directly to the head.
Even when they love, they THINK that they love.
Even when they feel, they THINK that they feel.
Even feeling is via thinking.
Of course, it has to be fálse !
~osho~
the beloved vol.1
(1977) - ch.9
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