Won't You
Join the Dance?
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Feb. 1979
Pune, India
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    [ A sannyasin, leaving, has discovered since the
    Primal group that she doesn't feel good with
    people. ]

    It will change; all that is needed is awareness,
    more awareness.

    Almost everybody is trapped in the same
    situation, and those who become aware are
    fortunate, because from awareness,
    transformation starts. In the name of love,
    people are trying to dominate, to possess, to be
    powerful.

    Love is just a bait to be powerful. It is a strategy
    -- the socalled love is just a very cunning
    strategy to dominate the other in such a way
    that the other never feels directly dominated; it
    is an indirect way. But the other is also doing the
    same with you, so there is necessarily conflict.
    Both are on power trips, and both clash.

    Out of one hundred, ninety-nine point nine
    percent of couples are continuously fighting.
    And the reason is simple: each wants to be
    powerful over the other. Clash is inevitable; and
    in this clash all possibilities of love are
    destroyed. The whole situation becomes ugly,
    nauseating, sickening.

    But once you become aware of it, then things
    can never be the same. Just watch and see that
    power is anti-love; power and love can't go
    together. If you are loving, you cannot seek
    power -- hence all politicians are unloving
    people; if they are loving, they cannot be
    politicians...

                                                        – Osho
                             Won't You Join the Dance, ch. 1
    Won't You Join the Dance?　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Ni yiqi lai tiaowu ma?

    Chinese traditional:
    你一起來跳舞嗎？

    Chinese simplified:
    你一起来跳舞吗？
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