奧修禪卡~愛人

我偶爾心血來潮都會抽奧修禪卡，每一次抽我都明白禪卡給我的引導和學習，它帶給我很深的洞見，我喜歡。今天抽了兩張，這是其中一張。

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這三件事必須被記下來：最低一層的愛就是性，它是屬於身體的，最高一層、最淨化的愛是慈悲。性是在愛之下，慈悲是在愛之上，而愛剛好就在中間。

    很少人能夠知道愛是什麼。很不幸地，有百分之九十九的人認為性就是愛，但是它並不是。性是非常動物層面的，當然，它具有潛力可以成長而變成愛，但它並不是真的愛，它只是有潛力……

　　如果你變得很覺知、很警覺、很靜心，那麼性可以被蛻變成愛。如果你的靜心變得很全然、很純粹，那麼愛就可以被蛻變成慈悲。性是個種子，愛是花朵，而慈悲就是那個芬芳。

　　佛陀將慈悲定義成「愛加上靜心」。當你的愛不只是對別人的欲求，當你的愛不只是 一個需要，當你的愛是一種分享，當你的愛並不是乞丐的愛，而是國王的愛，當你的愛不要求回報，而只是準備要給予，純粹為了給予的喜悅而給予，然後再加上靜 心，那麼純粹的芬芳就被釋放出來了，那就是慈悲，慈悲是最高的現象。

~~ Osho ~~

註解：

　　我們所說的愛事實上是所有各種關連，從地（世俗）伸展到天（神性）。在最世俗的層面，愛 是性的吸引。我們之中有很多人都陷在那裡，因為我們的制約使我們在性方面加上了很多期待和壓抑的重擔。事實上，性愛最大的問題是它從來都不會持久。唯有當 我們接受這個事實，我們才能夠真正按照它本然的樣子來慶祝它，並歡迎它的發生，而當它不復存在時，帶著感激的心情跟它說再見。

　　然後，當我們變得成熟，我們就能夠開始去經驗超越「性」的愛，並榮耀別人那份獨一無二的個體性。並開始了解到，我們的伴侶常常可作為一面鏡子，它反應出我們深處的自己沒有被看到的那些面，同時可以支持我們去變成完整的。

　　這種愛以自由為基礎，而不是一種期待或需要，它的翅膀可以把我們帶到更高更高，朝向那宇宙的大愛，那些是成為「一」經驗。

Meaning of the Card:  These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex–it is physical–and the highest refinement of love is compassion. Sex is below love, compassion is above love; love is exactly in the middle.

Very few people know what love is. Ninety-nine percent of people, unfortunately, think sexuality is love–it is not. Sexuality is very animal; it certainly has the potential of growing into love, but it is not actual love, only a potential….

If you become aware and alert, meditative, then sex can be transformed into love. And if your meditativeness becomes total, absolute, love can be transformed into compassion. Sex is the seed, love is the flower, compassion is the fragrance.

Buddha has defined compassion as ‘love plus meditation’. When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but an emperor, when your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give–to give for the sheer joy of giving–then add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released.

That is compassion; compassion is the highest phenomenon.

Commentary on the Card:  What we call love is really a whole spectrum of relating, reaching from the earth to the sky.

At the most earthy level, love is sexual attraction. Many of us remain stuck there, because our conditioning has burdened our sexuality with all kinds of expectations and repressions.
Actually the biggest “problem” with sexual love is that it never lasts. Only if we accept this fact can we then really celebrate it for what it is–welcome its happening, and say good-bye with gratitude when it’s not.

Then as we mature, we can begin to experience the love that exists beyond sexuality and honors the unique individuality of the other.

We begin to understand that our partner often functions as a mirror, reflecting unseen aspects of our deeper self and supporting us to become whole.

This love is based in freedom, not expectation or need. Its wings take us higher and higher towards the universal love that experiences all as one.