Life is row-sy!!!

I dedicate this blog to my dear soul Si-Star, Star-iela (Resurrected1), for I know she will understand exactly how I'm feeling today! When it comes to mothers, we are in the same boat, but I'm keeping afloat thanks to the likes of SHORE-ly, oops, I mean Shirley, my beloved Ohmsmom! 

On Mother's Day, I'm keeping mum about my mum! And, instead, I'm choosing to honour my three favourite Mothers: Mother Earth, Ohm-ni-PRESENT Ohmsmom and my sweet Star-iela!!! I love the three of you with all my heart! I'm sending you lots of love while I row, row, row my boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream!

All my love,
Row-sy

On Mother's Day, I feel most comforted by Osho's words:

‘'Your parents love you, and they also tell you that you have to love them because they are your fathers, they are your mothers. It is a strange phenomenon and nobody seems to be aware of it. Just because you are a mother does not mean that the child has to love you. You have to be lovable; your being a mother is not enough. You may be a father, but that does not mean that automatically you become lovable. Just because you are a father does not create a tremendous feeling of love in the child. But it is expected ... and the poor child does not know what to do. He starts pretending, that's the only possible way. He starts smiling when there is no smile in his heart; he starts showing love, respect, gratitude - and all are just false. He becomes an actor, a hypocrite from the very beginning, a politician.

We are all living in this world where parents, teachers, priests - everybody has corrupted you, displaced you, has taken away from yourself. My effort is to give your center  back to you. I call this centering  ‘meditation'. I want you simply to be yourself, with a great self-respect, with the dignity of knowing that existence needed you - and then you can start searching for yourself. First come to the center, and then start searching for who you are.

Knowing one's original face is the beginning of a life of love, of a life of celebration. You will be able to give so much love - because it is not something that is exhaustible. It is immeasurable, it cannot be exhausted. And the more you give it, the more you become capable of giving it.

The greatest experience in life is simply when you give without any conditions, without any expectations of even a simple thank you. On the contrary, a real, authentic love, feels obliged to the person who has accepted his love. He could have rejected it.

When you start giving love with a deep sense of gratitude to all those who accept it, you will be surprised that you have become an emperor - no longer a beggar asking for love with a begging bowl, knocking on every door. And those people on whose doors you are knocking cannot give you love; they are themselves beggars. Beggars are asking each other for love and feeling frustrated, angry, because the love is not coming. But this is bound to happen. Love belongs to the world of emperors, not of beggars. And a man is an emperor when he is so full of love that that he can give it without any conditions.

Then comes an even greater surprise: When you start giving your love to anybody, even to strangers, the question is not to whom you are giving it - the very joy of giving is so much that who cares who is on the receiving end? When this space comes into your being, you go on giving to each and everybody - not only to human beings but to animals, to the trees, to the faraway stars, because love is something that can be transferred even to the farthest star just by your loving look. Just by your touch, love can be transferred to a tree. Without saying a single word ... it can be conveyed in absolute silence. It need not be said, it declares itself. It has its own ways of reaching into the very depths, into your very being.

First be full of love, then the sharing happens. And then the great surprise ... that as you give, you start receiving from unknown sources, from unknown corners, from unknown people, from trees, from rivers, from mountains. From all nooks and corners of existence love starts showering on you. The more you give, the more you get. Life becomes a sheer dance of love.''

‘Love, Freedom, Aloneness' by Osho, p.50 - p.52