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Osho
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Osho
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Osho describes love as transformation. It is painful because it transforms and transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. While the old is familiar, secure, safe, the new is absolutely unknown. With love we will be moving in an uncharted ocean.
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- Anderson_1
- 06-18-24
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Friendship, like love is a lie:
"Even if a teacher explains over many days the meaning of the Prajnaparamita, in a real sense he cannot explain it. The Tantras also state that we cannot explain our real nature (Buddha/Sat-Chit-Ananda)."- Longchenpa 🛕.
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