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    Love Letters to Life: 150 Life-Transforming Letters by Osho
    Love Letters to Life: 150 Life-Transforming Letters by Osho
    Love Letters to Life: 150 Life-Transforming Letters by Osho
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    In the age of Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and email, personal letters seem somehow out of date, or at least far from most people's everyday experience. This book is a rare and unique collection of letters personally written by Osho to participants from his early meditation events.

    These are not letters to people and their personalities, these are letters to our souls. Osho addresses essential issues and concerns that arise on the path of meditation and self-discovery. The letters are encouragements to continue the process of meditation, and address subjects like Self-Acceptance, Wisdom, Consciousness, The Quest for Life, A Life of Freedom, Earth Is Our Home, Dropping Fear!, Dealing with Anger, Rebellion, and many more in a direct and penetratingly personal way.

    Osho explains this about the value of writing letters:
    "If I write anything, I write letters, because a letter is as good as something that is spoken. It is addressed. I have not written anything except letters, because to me they are a manner of speaking. The other is always there before me when I write a letter."

    The OSHO works consist almost exclusively of the spoken word, addressed directly to individual people or larger audiences. These talks were recorded and then transcribed and published as books. This book represents one of the rare exceptions in the collected works of Osho, in which his written personal letters are published. Each one of these letters is like an condensed Osho Talk in haiku form.

    He would meet with these correspondents time and again at his meditation camps or while staying in their homes. This volume is a selection of his replies to their letters, queries, and calls for help.

    His words are intimate, incisive, poetic, playful, and loving. His encouragement to his correspondents to keep going on their chosen path of meditation and awareness while living, loving, and working in the ordinary world to keep their flame of commitment burning brightly when he is not physically present can inspire whomever opens this book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOsho Media International
    Release dateDec 13, 2016
    ISBN9780880500746
    Love Letters to Life: 150 Life-Transforming Letters by Osho
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    Osho

    Osho is one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. He is the author of many books, including Love, Freedom, Aloneness; The Book of Secrets; and Innocence, Knowledge, and Wonder.

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      Love Letters to Life - Osho

      Love Letters to Life

      150 Life-Transforming Letters by Osho

      Osho

      ISBN: 978-0-88050-074-6

      Copyright © 1971, 2016 OSHO International Foundation

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      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.

      Love Letters to Life is also available as a print edition ISBN 978-1-938755-86-6

      These letters were originally published in Hindi as Antarveena. The complete OSHO text archive can be found via the online OSHO Library at www.osho.com/library

      OSHO is a registered trademark of OSHO International Foundation

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      ISBN eBook: 978-0-88050-074-6

      Letters 1 – 150

      1.

      Love.

      I received your letter when I returned from Delhi the day before yesterday. I am happy to know that you are experiencing bliss and contentment.

      Bliss lives within us, but we do not find it because we are looking for it on the outside. Once the inner journey begins, new sources of bliss are continuously opening up.

      In the kingdom of the inner, there is neither sorrow, nor pain, nor death. Once you reach this state of deathless you will be reborn, and you will cut all that binds you.

      Reaching this liberated state is the very goal of life. In this state, the self and the other drop, and only isness remains: without boundaries, indescribable; formless and figureless.

      Before, there was the isness of I; now, there is the isness of the whole. Once this is attained, everything is attained. Once this is known, everything is known. Once you are in this state, violence and hatred, sorrow and pain, death and darkness – all will disappear, and what will remain will be sat chit anand: truth, consciousness, bliss.

      May you attain sat chit anand. That is my wish.

      2.

      Love.

      Truth is manifesting in every moment, in everything that is happening. It is being perpetually expressed. All that is needed are the eyes to see it; its light is ever-present.

      I planted a sapling a year ago, now it has begun to flower. Before this happened there was a year of waiting. Spiritual life is the same.

      Be prayerful and wait – sow the seeds and wait for the flowers to come. Patience is the life-breath of meditation. Nothing can happen before its time. Everything takes time to grow.

      I have received your letter. As you move on your journey you are forging a path between hope and despair. I am very happy to know this. The path of life is very winding – and it is good it is so. It creates a challenge for your courage and energy, and adds joy to the victory.

      Only those who never set out on the journey can be called defeated. The one who sets out has already won half the battle. And the defeats that come in between are not defeats; they are only the backdrops against which the victories can stand out in their greater glory.

      Existence is with you each and every moment; that is why attainment of the goal is certain.

      I am in bliss.

      3.

      Love.

      I am in bliss. I received your letter some time ago. Since then I have been away, hence my delay in replying. I have now returned after speaking in Indore and Shajapur.

      One truth I witness every day is that one cannot live without spirituality. Without spirituality something in a person remains empty and unfulfilled. This emptiness will start to ache, but you will find no way to fill it.

      This is the state of modern man. I am not worried about it because in this state may lie the only hope for mankind’s future and safety. Out of this very pain a thirst will be born, which, if given the right direction, can become a worldwide spiritual regeneration. For just as a dark night is followed by the rising sun, so the soul of man is very close to a new dawn.

      News of this impending dawn has to be brought to every single person because it has to happen within each and every one of us. And we all have to make an effort for this dawn to occur. It will only come if we all make an effort. It cannot come by itself.

      The birth of consciousness demands effort and patience. It is like birth pangs. This effort and waiting, these birth pangs, are not painful because through them the infinitesimal can open to the infinite. There is no greater bliss than giving birth to the vastness within oneself.

      I am happy to know that you are moving toward the goal of life. If we just keep moving we are bound to reach.

      May the divine be with you, that is my wish.

      4.

      Love.

      I have received your letter and I am very pleased. It fills me with joy that you are touching new depths of peace and bliss! On life’s journey there is nothing worth attaining other than this. When all else is lost, this wealth will still be with you. That is why it is, in fact, the only wealth; and those who have everything but this wealth are paupers – even with all their riches.

      That is why one can be poor while having great riches, and rich while living in poverty, because such riches only give the illusion of destroying one’s poverty. They don’t destroy it, they only hide it, and this self-deception is very costly in the end, because a life that could have been an opportunity to gain some real treasure is spent uselessly living under this illusion.

      It is very important to remain alert to the kind of wealth that is found on the periphery of life. For only those who realize its illusory nature will set out to search for the treasure that is hidden at the very center of life.

      Finding this wealth will destroy poverty forever, because such wealth can never be taken away from you, and only that which cannot be taken away from you is your own wealth, your personal wealth.

      That which cannot be taken away cannot be found either, because that which can be found can also be lost. Inner wealth simply is. It is everywhere; one simply has to recognize it. In fact, to recognize it is to attain it.

      May every step you take in life lead you toward this wealth of wisdom – that is my wish.

      I am in bliss. Give my love to all the beloved ones there.

      5.

      Love.

      I am pleased with your very loving letter. May your flame of life rise smokelessly toward the truth – that is my only wish.

      One has to turn one’s life into a blazing fire in order to reach godliness. May you always remember this.

      Asleep or awake, if this longing, this thirst, this remembrance, is in your every breath – if it is the whole focus of your vision –

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