Love is a Roseflower: Osho’s Wisdom on Letting Love Bloom

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Do not spend your time seeking love, because what you might think is love is not actually love at all.

You are not lacking love in your life.

Love is your essence, and the reason you may not see this is because you have attached yourself to a thought or idea of what love should be.

But in this beautiful teaching by Osho, we see that if we really want to experience love in our life, we should forget about the pursuit and instead raise our awareness.

The more aware we become, the more we see the love that is naturally part of our being.

If we can take care of the rosebush (i.e. our heart) and raise our consciousness, the rose (i.e. love) will arrive on its own.

This is contrary to much of what society and our own thoughts teach us, urging us to chase after love as if it is something external to and independent of who we are.

So, focus on cultivating the rosebush instead.

Open your heart and remove all the barriers you have set up preventing the natural flow of love.

Once you do, love will bloom in beautiful and spectacular fashion.

Love is your absolute essence, innate to who you already are. If you raise your awareness and travel to the depths of your heart, you will realize that you are already full of love that is waiting to be shared. Photo by Pixabay

If you really want to know love, forget about love, remember about meditation. If you want to bring roses into your garden, forget about roses and take care of the rosebush.

Give nourishment to it, water it, take care that it gets the right amount of sun, water. If everything is taken care of, the roses are destined to come in the right time. You cannot bring them earlier, you cannot force them to open up sooner, and you cannot ask a roseflower to be more perfect.

Have you ever seen a roseflower that is not perfect? What more do you want? Every roseflower is perfect in its uniqueness. Dancing in the wind, in the rain, in the sun — can’t you see the tremendous beauty, the absolute joy? A small ordinary roseflower radiates the hidden splendor of existence.

Love is a roseflower in your being, but prepare your being. Dispel the darkness and the unconsciousness. Become more and more alert and aware, and love will come of its own accord, in its own time. You need not worry about it. And whenever it comes it is always perfect.

Love is a spiritual experience — nothing to do with sexes and nothing to do with bodies, but something to do with the innermost being.

But you have not even entered into your own temple. You don’t know at all who you are and you are asking about love. First be thyself; first know thyself — and love will come as a reward. It is a reward from the beyond. It showers on you like flowers, fills your being. And it goes on showering on you, and it brings with it a tremendous longing to share. That sharing can only be indicated in human language as ‘love.’ It does not say much, but it indicates the right direction. Love is a shadow of alertness, of consciousness.

I teach you to be more conscious. And love will come as you become more conscious: it is a guest that comes, that comes inevitably to those who are ready and prepared to receive it.