baul -xv-

The head has become so dominant...

that it does not allow any spontaneity. It has become dictatorial. It does not allow the heart even to utter a single word. It has forced the heart to be completely quiet.

You will have to listen again to the heart.

You will have to start dropping logic a little.

You will have to take a few risks.

You will have to live dangerously.

You will have to move towards the unknown, and you will have to love pérsons, and not things. You will have to be ready not to possess anybody. Because the moment you possess, the pérson is not there: only a thíng can be possessed...

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Try to understand it as deeply as possible.

The moment you fall in love with somebody...

immediately, your whole conditioning starts trying to possess him.

Resist that temptation.

The devil is tempting you - the devil of the society, the devil of civilization, and the devil of the church. The devil stands in a very religious garb! And the devil goes on quoting scriptures!

Beware!

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Whenever you start possessing...

you are K I L L I N G  love.

So either you can possess the person, or you can love the person.

Both together are NOT possible.

So this is the alternative: a man who wants to become a Baul... a lover... has to drop all possessiveness.

Resist all temptation to being possessive.

Because that temptation...

comes from the ego.


~osho~
the beloved vol.1
(1977) - ch.9