Love, Freedom, Aloneness

notes

Previously the hardback was published as Love, Freedom, and Aloneness

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

(unknown)

number of discourses/chapters

4 parts, with 17 "Chapters", 19 "Questions", Preface, a "Caveat" and an Epilogue   (see table of contents)

editions

Love, Freedom, Aloneness The Koan of Relationships Year of publication : 2002 Publisher : St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-29162-0 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 256 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : Copyright © 2001 by Osho International Foundation. Size : 232 x 157 x 10 mm Edited by Sarito Carol Neiman Preface: (anonymus) Cover back

table of contents

edition 2002 chapter titles		source of the compilation
	Preface	unknown
	Part One: Love
1	Lovey-Dovey	unknown
2	Real and Unreal--The First Step	unknown
3	The Virtues of Selfishness	unknown
4	Attached to Nothing	unknown
	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?	unknown
	Part Two: From Relationship to Relating
5	The Honeymoon that Never Ends	unknown
6	From Lust to Love to Loving	unknown
7	Let There Be Spaces...	unknown
8	The Koan of Relationship	unknown
	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 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 and intense longing to overcome the separation between us.	unknown
	Part Three: Freedom
9	Tabula Rasa	unknown
10	The Fundamental Slavery	unknown
11	Beware of the Popes	unknown
12	Is There Life After Sex?	unknown
13	It Takes a Village...	unknown
	Questions: You said tha 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 aggresive 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 wision of a model society, would there be one large commune or a series of communes? What would be their relationship to one another?	unknown
	Part Four: Aloneness
14	Aloneness Is Your Nature	unknown
15	Strangers to Ourselves	unknown
16	Solitary and Elect	unknown
17	The Lion and the Sheep	unknown
	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 alon? 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?	unknown
	Caveat: Two Women and a Monk	unknown
	Epilogue: Embracing the Paradox	unknown