LOL.

With other bloggers who use their own prose, it is still a balanced act.

Really, there’s often little or no need to criticise your outpourings, they themselves self-evidently do the job almost perfectly!

I suggest you read the Osho quotes Arpana has just provided, that might be a decent start.

Because of such kind of mind-fuck Shantam is suffering from bleeding heart. Under the façade is the lonely heart, broken relations of a middle-aged adult without decent relationships with his children

Because of such kind of mind-fuck West is suffering from bleeding heart. Under the façade is the lonely heart, broken relations and middle-aged adults without children.

Surely childless therapists and mini-gurus are doing brisk business by telling such adults, “Lick your thumb and jump.”

Osho.

Be Still and Know
Responses to Disciples Questions
Talks given from 01/09/79 am to 10/09/79 am
English Discourse series
10 Chapters

In a moment of feeling, you function as a totality. When you think, you function only as the head. When you are sentimental, you function only as the heart. Remember, sentimentality is not feeling, emotionalism is not feeling. Thinking, you are a head — just a part pretending to be the whole. Of course it is false. This perspective is false. Emotional, sentimental, you are the heart — again another part pretending to be the whole, another servant pretending to be the master. Again it is false.

Feeling is of the total — of the body, of the mind, of the soul. Feeling knows no divisions; feeling is indivisible. When you feel, you function as a totality. When you function as a totality you function in tune with the Totality. Let me repeat it: when you function as a totality you function in tune with the Totality.

When you function as a part you have fallen apart; you are no longer in tune with the Total. When you are no longer in tune with the Total, whatsoever you think you know is false, illusory. When you are in tune with the total, you know that you don’t know anything. But even this ‘not knowing’ is a knowing – it is a feeling, it is a love affair with the Whole.

Osho.
Ecstasy – The Forgotten Language
Chapter #5
Chapter title: There are no words to tell
15 December 1976 am in Buddha Hall

It somehow reminds me of how football fans like to praise a player for his “passion”, using that strong-sounding word to state that the man tends to get far too emotionally excited, often enough leading to rash errors of judgment, even violence.

The word they should use is ‘emotional’, but this, of course, has far too many ‘female’ and hence ‘wimpish’ connotations for the average macho fan to identify himself with! So they indulge themselves by using the word ‘passion’.

Love and emotion, true “heart” and cloying, ultimately self-indulgent sentiment – the difference can sometimes be tricky to perceive and often seems to be not recognised at all around here, or indeed, perhaps, amongst many sannyasins…Strange, though, as Osho himself was, in his being, the epitome of love and ‘passion’ (ie the true, unattached kind).

But did he often enough demonstrate the difference in his teachings? Or did he, in encouraging the unbridled expression of practically anything in any way, in the name of freedom, create a cult(ure) where extreme emotional or sentimental self-indulgence and the delusions (as well as the freedom) that inevitably leads to, occupied a perhaps dangerously pre-eminent role? So that its ‘victims’ are often unable to ‘see the wood for the trees’, as the saying goes.

Perhaps that’s the price of such freedom: it doesn’t come cheap, there can be casualties, temporary or apparently ‘permanent’, along the way….