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OSHO International Foundation presents
Osho: Love and Hate are One
from an OSHO TALK: LOVE & HATE -- two sides of the same coin
From Misery to Enlightenment #13 Copyright 2006
You say that love and hate are one;
but I see more hate in the world than love.
At the same time,
you say that enlightenment is neither
love nor hate.
Are you speaking of two different
qualities of love?
How does this fit with your message of love?
Love and hate
are just two sides
of the same coin.
But with love
something
very drastic has happened.
It is unimaginable
how this
drastic step was taken by people
who had all the good intentions
in the world.
You may never have even suspected
what has destroyed love.
It is the continuous teaching of love
that has destroyed it.
Hate is still pure --
love is not.
When you hate,
your hate has an authenticity.
And when you love
it is only hypocrisy.
This has to be understood.
For thousands of years
all the religions,
politicians,
pedagogues,
have been teaching one thing,
and that one thing is love:
Love your enemy,
love your neighbor,
love your parents,
love God.
Why, in the beginning, did they
start
this strange
series of
teachings about love?
They were afraid of your authentic love,
because authentic love is beyond their control.
You are possessed by it.
You are not the possessor,
you are the possessed.
And every society wants you to be in control.
The society is afraid of your wild nature,
it is afraid of your naturalness,
so from the very beginning it starts cutting your wings.
And the most basic thing
which is dangerous in you
is the possibility of love,
because if you are possessed by love
you can go
even against the whole world.
The complete Osho Talk LOVE and HATE - two sides of the same coin
will be distributed as companion DVD together with the publication
COMPASSION The Ultimate Flowering of Love by Osho, St. Martins Press / Griffin, Spring 2007
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