ONLY LOVE HEALS...

by Elmarie Swartz
(South Africa)

Osho on Love

The meaning of the word 'therapy' is that which heals. And what heals? LOVE HEALS. Love is therapy.

NOTHING ELSE IS THERAPY. Not psychoanalysis, not analytical psychology. ONLY LOVE HEALS. Healing is a function of love. But love expands your consciousness. It allows you to go higher and higher and touch the stars. It makes you feel respected. It makes you feel that you are needed in existence, that without you there will be something missing in existence - there will be a hole without you, unfulfillable. YOU ARE A MUST. This existence cannot be the same without you. You are not just an accident, you are essentially needed...

Even a small leaf of grass is as much valuable as any star. There is no hierarchy in existence: NOBODY IS LOWER AND NOBODY IS HIGHER. We are ALL joined into one organic unity.

This is real therapy. Therapy when it is real will be nothing but love. THERAPY WHEN REAL WILL HELP YOU TO REGAIN YOUR CONFIDENCE, will help you to bloom.

THE WORD 'BUDDHA' comes from a root 'bodha'. In the ancient days, the word 'bodha' was used for THE OPENING UP OF A BUD. It comes from the world of flowers; then it was taken over. 'Bodha' means originally opening up of a bud and becoming a flower. Then it was taken in a metaphoric sense: when a man opens up, blooms, releases fragrance and color, and dances in the sky, he becomes a Buddha - he has opened up.

OSHO
The Perfect Master
Vol 1, Ch #6: Only One Ecstasyam in Buddha Hall