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Osho Books—Darshan Diaries
The Imprisoned Splendor
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   June 1980
Pune, India
this volume has yet to be
published in book form.

    Love needs the greatest courage in life, for the
    simple reason that the basic requirement for
    moving into the world of love is dissolving your
    ego -- and that is the hardest thing to do.

    We cling to the ego like anything. We are ready to
    die for it, but we are not ready to let it die because
    it defines us, it gives us an identity. It gives us a
    separate existence. It makes us feel important,
    significant. But because basically the ego is a
    false phenomenon all these feelings are rooted in
    a fallacy; hence deep down we are always aware
    that the importance that ego gives is bogus, it is
    phoney.

    We know it and yet we don't want to know it. We
    are aware of it and yet we don't want to know it.
    We are aware of it yet we want to be oblivious of
    it. This is the human dilemma, To get into love
    means to get out of this dilemma, to drop the
    fallacy, to drop the phoney and the pseudo and to
    be simply a non-entity, a nothingness.

    But out of that nothingness something of immense
    value arises. life becomes a celebration. With ego
    life is a misery, because if you are rooted in
    something false you cannot celebrate. Only truth
    can release the energies of celebration in you.

    Only truth can become a song in your heart. The
    ego is the greatest lie: all other lies are
    byproducts of it...

                                                 – Osho
                        The Imprisoned Splendor, ch. 1