Love, Freedom, Aloneness - Osho

Contents
Preface

PART ONE: LOVE
Chapter One: Lovey-Dovey
Chapter Two: Real and Unreal—The First Step
Chapter Three: The Virtues of Selfishness
Chapter Four: Attached to Nothing

QUESTIONS
* Will you please speak about the difference between a healthy love of oneself and
egoistic pride?
* Why is love so painful?
* How is it that the inscription on the Greek temple of Delphi says “Know
Thyself” and not “Love Thyself”?
* How can I love better?

PART TWO: FROM RELATIONSHIP TO RELATING
Chapter Five: The Honeymoon that Never Ends
Chapter Six: From Lust to Love to Loving
Chapter Seven: Let There Be Spaces . . .
Chapter Eight: The Koan of Relationship

QUESTIONS
* How can I know that a woman has fallen in love in reality, and not playing
games?
* If the jealousies, the possessiveness, the attachment, the needs and expectations
and desires and illusions drop, will anything be left of my love?
* What is the difference between liking and loving, to like and to love? And also,
* what is the difference between ordinary love and spiritual love?
* There are many people I love but I don’t feel committed to. How can I predict if I
will love them tomorrow?
* Even if sometimes lovelike feelings arise in my heart, immediately I start feeling
this is not love, it is my hidden cravings for sex and all that.
* In the East, it has been stressed that one should stay with a person, one person,
in a love relationship. In the West, now people float from one relationship to
another. Which are you in favor of?
* Lately, I have begun to realize how even my lover is a stranger to me. Still, there
is an intense longing to overcome the separation between us.

PART THREE: FREEDOM
Chapter Nine: Tabula Rasa
Chapter Ten: The Fundamental Slavery
Chapter Eleven: Beware of the Popes
Chapter Twelve: Is There Life After Sex?
Chapter Thirteen: It Takes a Village . . .

QUESTIONS
* You said that love can make you free. But ordinarily we see that love becomes
attachment, and instead of freeing us it makes us more bound. So tell us
something about attachment and freedom.
* My boyfriend feels less and less like making love, and this makes me upset and
frustrated, even to the point where I act aggressive toward him. What can I do?
* My sex life has become very quiet lately — not that I don’t want sex or that I am
not courageous enough to approach women, but it just doesn’t happen. What am
I doing wrong?
* How can I know if detachment or indifference is growing within?
* In your vision of a model society, would there be one large commune or a series
of communes? What would be their relationship to one another?

PART FOUR: ALONENESS
Chapter Fourteen: Aloneness Is Your Nature
Chapter Fifteen: Strangers to Ourselves
Chapter Sixteen: Solitary and Elect
Chapter Seventeen: The Lion and the Sheep

QUESTIONS
* Never belonged, never been on the “inside,” never felt “at one” with another.
Why such a loner all my life?
* Why does my sadness feel more real than my happiness? I want so much to be
real and authentic, not to wear any masks, but this seems to mean so much
rejection by others. Is it possible to be so alone?
* As I move deeper into meditation and looking into who I really am, I am having
trouble maintaining any relationship. Is this something to be expected, or have I
gone wrong somewhere?

Caveat: Two Women and a Monk

Epilogue: Embracing the Paradox