The Lovers – Sex is the Seed, Love is the Flower, Compassion is the Fragrance
What we call love is really a whole spectrum of relating. At the most earthy level, love is sexual attraction. Many of us remain stuck there, because our conditioning has burdened our sexuality with all kinds of expectations and repressions. Actually the biggest ‘problem’ with sexual love is that it never lasts, oh how I know this! It is only when we accept this fact that we can really celebrate it for what it is – welcome it when it is happening, and saying good-bye with gratitude when it is not.
As we learn from our lessons, we can then begin to experience love that exists beyond sexuality, a love that honors the unique individuality of the other. We then come to understand that our partner is in fact our mirror, reflecting unseen aspects of our deeper self and supporting us to become whole. This takes a total awareness and understanding of this concept. This love is then based in freedom, not expectation or need. It takes us to a universal love, where we experience all as ONE.
The lowest love is sex – it is physical - the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle.
Very few people know what love is. Ninety-nine percent of people, unfortunately, think sexuality is love – it is not. Sexuality is very animal; it certainly has the potential of growing into love, but it is not actual love, only a potential …
If you become aware and alert, meditative, then sex can be transformed into love. And if your meditativeness becomes total, love can be transformed into compassion. Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.
Buddha defined compassion as ‘love plus meditation’. When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but an emperor, when your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give – to give for the sheer joy of giving – then add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released. That is compassion; compassion is the highest phenomenon.
Exerpt from Osho Zen Tarot : )
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