Pleasure: The Seed of Blissfulness (DVD)
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The Messiah, Vol. 2, discourse 13
Osho's commentaries on Khalil Gibran's The Prophet
"Flowers are beautiful. You can enjoy them, appreciate them,
but they cannot nourish you, they cannot become your food. You can have them
for decoration but they cannot become your blood, your bones, and your marrow.
This is what he means...it is the blossoming of your desires, but it is not
their fruit.
So don't stop at pleasure -- there is much more ahead. Enjoy
the flowers, collect the flowers, make a garland of the flowers, but remember,
there are fruits also. And the fruit of your ripening is not pleasure; the
fruit is blissfulness.
Pleasure is only a beginning -- the tree is ready. The
flowers are a song to announce that the tree is pregnant, and soon the fruits
will be coming.
Don't get lost in
pleasures, but don't escape from them either. Enjoy them, but remember -- there
is much more to life than pleasure."
125 min.
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