Happiness, Pleasure, Joy, Bliss

Happiness, Pleasure, Joy, Bliss are addressed here by Osho and we learn the different levels of development: "Let us start from the lowest because that will be easier to understand, that’s where man biologically is born. Pleasure is physical..."

Ordinarily, in the dictionaries you will find bliss defined as happiness, pleasure, joy. Linguistically they all appear to have a similar meaning; existentially it is not so. And you will have to understand the subtle nuances and differences; only then you may be able to catch some hold of the phenomenon called bliss.

notes: Previously published in The Rajneesh Bible, Vol 3, ch 26

time period of Osho's original talks/writings: Jan 24, 1985 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters: 1

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