bhikkshu

These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is physical - and 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, absolute, love can be transformed into compassion. Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.

Buddha has 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.

Osho Zen, Zest, Zip, Zap and Zing Chapter 3



CHRIST MASS
Remembering Christ

So many are put off Christ and Jesus and God due to the falseness of tradition and religion. But like KRS ONE sez, "You all forgot Jesus was a rebel".

There is a true and effective religion and it is the religion of the heart, the anahata. It is the way to freedom, although not the only way, very likely the easiest and most joyful way.

So as Christmas swings around again ask what does this Christ phenomenon actually consist? What would Love do? How is that I AM as infinite as the Universe?

It's cool to be soft and unburdened.