Flowers of Love
- "Dear Krishna Karuna,
- Love. There is no power greater than faith in one's own self. The fragrance of self-confidence is something not of this world.
- Peace, Bliss, Truth - all these follow this fragrance. He who has confidence in himself is in heaven.
- And he who has no confidence in himself holds the key to hell in his own hands." (Osho, letter # 100)
- translated from
- Hindi: Prem Ke Phool (प्रेम के फूल)
- Translated by Dolly Diddee
- notes
- "A compilation of 150 immortal letters** written by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to various seekers, translated from the original Hindi version: Prem Ke Phool".
- Plus a 151st English letter on the back of the book. All letters have a date and addressee.
- The titles of these 150 letters match those of the Hindi original.
- Later published as part of A Cup of Tea (First Edition, 1980)
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- Jul 13, 1962 to Jun 24, 1971 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 150 (see table of contents)
editions
Flowers of LoveA Compilation of 150 Immortal Letters Written by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to Various Seekers
Page IV - V. Page 126 - 127. Back of the book. | |
Flowers of LoveA Book of Letters
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table of contents
edition 1974.09 chapter titles |
letters | |||||||
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event | location | duration | media | |||||
1 | Flowers of Love | 12 Mar 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
2 | Love Is Prayer | 3 Feb 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
3 | Temple of Love -- An Innocent, Simple Heart | 9 Jun 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
4 | The Fragrance of Love | 14 Jun 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
5 | The Tears of Love | 17 Feb 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
6 | The Death of the Ego in the Fullness of Love | 3 Mar 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
7 | Love -- From One to All | 17 Apr 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
8 | Love Is Music, Beauty -- Hence, Religion | 5 Dec 1964 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
9 | The Sweetness of Love | 16 Mar 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
10 | This Little Word -- "Love" | 22 Mar 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
11 | The Thirsty Awaiting -- of Love | 24 Apr 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
12 | The Totality of Life | 27 Mar 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
13 | Do Not Swim -- Float | 10 Sep 1968 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
14 | Jump -- into the Void | 18 Jun 1968 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
15 | Life -- a Line Drawn on the Water | 12 Dec 1968 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
16 | Awaiting | 29 Sep 1968 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
17 | By Drowning Oneself, Truth Is Known | 13 Aug 1962 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
18 | Investigations of Yoga | 1 Nov 1962 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
19 | Not Ethics -- But the Practice of Yoga | 12 Feb 1963 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
20 | Carry Out the Experiment -- Do Not Worry About Results | 3 Jun 1963 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
21 | The Awakening of the Witness | 17 Jun 1964 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
22 | The Drop Is the Ocean | 24 Apr 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
23 | Awareness in Sleep | 9 Sep 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
24 | Burning Desire | 12 Feb 1963 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
25 | Patience in Sadhana | 1 Nov 1963 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
26 | The Downpour of Love | 18 Aug 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
27 | Where Thirst Is, There Is the Way | 11 Mar 1966 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
28 | Effort and Resolution for Sadhana | 26 Mar 1966 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
29 | The Intense Will | 2 Apr 1966 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
30 | Peace and Restlessness Are Our Own Creations | 1966 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
31 | The Transformation of Sex Energy | 4 Jun 1966 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
32 | The Centre of the Self | 1966 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
33 | Total Living in the Present | 19 Feb 1966 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
34 | The Melody of Love | 5 Apr 1967 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
35 | The Inner Communion | 8 Sep 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
36 | Silent Expression | 3 Nov 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
37 | Surrender with Prayer and Awaiting | 19 Nov 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
38 | The Acceptance of All Aspects of Existence | 3 Nov 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
39 | Where Love Is, Prayer Is | 3 Nov 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
40 | Infinite Awaiting Is Sadhana | 2 Oct 1968 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
41 | Prayerful Awaiting Is Love | 7 Dec 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
42 | "I" -- a Dream -- a State of Sleep | 18 Jul 1968 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
43 | The Unwritten Letter | 7 Dec 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
44 | The Transcendence of Anxieties | 7 Dec 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
45 | Meditation on Sex | 16 Feb 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
46 | Live Spontaneously -- Moment to Moment | 17 Feb 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
47 | Dissolve Completely -- into Nothingness | 16 Feb 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
48 | The Thirst for God | 16 Feb 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
49 | The Life Vision | 2 Jan 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
50 | Life Is Purposeless | 2 Jan 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
51 | Emptiness Is the Door, the Path, the Destination | 13 May 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
52 | The Soul's Restlessness | 13 May 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
53 | The Revolutionary Youth Force | 22 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
54 | Life Is Insecure -- Patternless | 17 Feb 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
55 | The Two Sides of Love: Sex and Compassion | 15 Feb 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
56 | Total Acceptance Is the Doorway to God | 16 Feb 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
57 | Do Not Think: Look -- Just Look | 1962 -- 1971 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
58 | Separation, Thirst, Longing and Tears | 1962 -- 1971 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
59 | The Ten Commandments of Life | 8 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
60 | The Art Of Conquering Truth -- Total Surrender | 11 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
61 | Awareness of Death | 11 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
62 | The Quest for the Meaning | 8 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
63 | Awake and See -- "I" Is Not There | 8 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
64 | Seek -- Seek -- and Seek | 8 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
65 | The Lyre of the Soul | 8 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
66 | Dreams -- of Closed and Open Eyes | 8 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
67 | Quest for the Solution | 8 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
68 | Truth Is Forever on the Cross | 10 Jun 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
69 | Strong Determination | 10 Jun 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
70 | The Melody of Freedom | 25 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
71 | The Fire of Love | 13 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
72 | The Pinnacle of Thoughts | 1962 -- 1971 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
73 | Do Not Search -- Lose Yourself | 1962 -- 1971 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
74 | Speechless, Demandless Self-Surrender | 12 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
75 | The Song of the Soul | 16 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
76 | First Seek Ye the Kingdom of God | 16 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
77 | Turn Life into a Dance | 16 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
78 | Prayer Is -- Where There Is No Complaint | 16 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
79 | Open Your Eyes and See | 17 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
80 | Surrender -- Surrender -- and Surrender | 17 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
81 | Why So Much Suffering in Life? | 1 May 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
82 | Without Doubt, How Will You Search? | 15 Sep 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
83 | Die to Live | 25 Oct 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
84 | The Dust of Knowledge on Intuition | 3 Nov 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
85 | Do Not Swim -- Drown | 7 May 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
86 | Open Eyes Alone Are the Door to Truth | 20 Aug 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
87 | The Quest for Truth | 15 Nov 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
88 | Die Every Moment | 1 Jul 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
89 | Fearlessness Comes with Sadhana | 19 Aug 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
90 | Total Acceptance and Surrender Is Theism | 14 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
91 | God Alone Is Our Wealth | 6 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
92 | Nectar and Poison -- Both Are Mine | 20 Dec 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
93 | Truth Is Beyond Words | 5 Sep 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
94 | Man Also Is a Seed | 22 Sep 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
95 | Neither Suppression Nor Negation -- But Awareness | 1 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
96 | He Who Loses Finds | 8 Sep 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
97 | Make Life Itself a Liberation | 15 Aug 1969 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
98 | Freedom from Dreams Is the Door to Truth | 20 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
99 | To Live in One's Nature Is Sadhana | 3 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
100 | Faith in One's Own Self | 15 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
101 | Infinite Hope Is the Only Support | 20 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
102 | Sadhana Follows Determination | 1 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
103 | Detachment | 11 Sep 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
104 | Change Alone Is Eternal | 13 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
105 | Freedom from Activities -- Through Awareness | 13 Jul 1962 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
106 | Meditation -- Through Non-Doing -- Non-Effort | 5 Oct 1962 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
107 | The Witness | 20 Oct 1962 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
108 | The Inner Flame | 2 Nov 1962 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
109 | The Dream-Like Knot of Unawareness | 14 Dec 1962 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
110 | Emptiness Is the Gateway to God | 12 Jan 1963 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
111 | Yoga Sadhana Is the Right Religion | 10 Feb 1963 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
112 | Thirst, Prayer, Effort And Awaiting | 30 Aug 1966 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
113 | The Understanding of the Life Process | 19 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
114 | The Song of Life | 14 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
115 | Let Yourself Go and Cease to Exist | 25 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
116 | Love Is Eternity | 30 Jun 1968 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
117 | Sadhana -- Steeped in Surrender and Resolve | 11 Nov 1964 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
118 | Digging of the Treasure Within | 23 Nov 1964 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
119 | The Journey Within -- in One's Own Self -- in Truth | 4 Jan 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
120 | The Lamps of Love | 25 Oct 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
121 | Love Is Service | 29 Apr 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
122 | The Poverty of a Loveless Heart | 1 Jun 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
123 | The Ocean of Love in a Pitcher | 7 Jun 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
124 | The Treasure of Love | 2 Nov 1964 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
125 | God Is Love Unbounded | 26 Oct 1964 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
126 | Watered with Tears -- the Wine of Love | 9 May 1965 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
127 | Be Mad for God | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
128 | Waste No Time | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
129 | Transcendence of Duality -- Through Witnessing | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
130 | Act Your Part Well | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
131 | Meditation Is to Look Within | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
132 | Surrender and Witness | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
133 | He Who Burns His House | 25 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
134 | Go Still Deeper into Atheism | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
135 | "The Fall" of Thoughts | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
136 | Surrender -- a Jump Without Mental Calculation | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
137 | God Is -- Here and Now | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
138 | The Sadhana of "Not This, Not That!" | 26 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
139 | Empty Yourself Completely | 15 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
140 | Struggle, Will, and Sannyas | 25 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
141 | The Anguish of Spiritual Rebirth | 27 Mar 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
142 | Start the Journey -- To the Eternity | 15 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
143 | Power Is Within You | 22 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
144 | Die and Know... Lose And Find | 11 Apr 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
145 | Love in Every Breath | 25 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
146 | Sannyas -- the Supreme Enjoyment of Life | 15 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
147 | Sannyas Is the New Birth | 11 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
148 | The Descent of Sannyas to the World | 12 Nov 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
149 | The Pride of a Sannyasin Son | 15 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a | |||
150 | The Soul of a Sannyasin: Fixed, Firm and Fearless | 15 Oct 1970 | unknown | n/a | n/a |