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Tue, February 12, 2008 - 10:32 PM
Remember, hate is not the opposite of love, as people think. Hate is love standing upside down, it is not the opposite of love. The real opposite of love is fear. In love one expands, in fear one shrinks. In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens. In fear one doubts, in love one trusts. In fear one is left lonely. In love one disappears; hence there is no question of loneliness at all."
~Osho
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Tue, February 12, 2008 - 11:41 PM
This is a very enlightening post - thanks for sharing.
Interesting - religions are either love based or fear based. People bring up their kids either love of fear based. |
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Wed, February 13, 2008 - 8:55 AM
you're welcome, j. ~*~shell~*~ posted a bunch of osho quotes on a tribe, and i found them all so insightful and inspiring.
yes, you're right! fear is used as a tool to control far too often. check out these other osho quotes, all from the book "courage: the joy of living dangerously." (i'm so ready to get this book!) "Love is a natural state of consiousness... Love is your very being... but that love has become almost impossible. The society does not allow it. The society conditions you in such a way that love becomes impossible and hate becomes the only possible thing. Then hate is easy, and love is not only difficult, but impossible. Man has been distorted. Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man - and love is rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else." "Love is dangerous because it makes you an individual. And the state and the church... they don't want individuals, not at all. They don't want human beings, they want sheep. They want people who only look like human beings but whose souls have been crushed so utterly, damaged so deeply, that it seems irreparable. And the best way to destroy man is to destroy his spontaneity of love. If man has love, there can't be nations; nations exist on hate. The Indians hate the Pakistanis, and the Pakistanis hate the Indians - only then can these two countries exist. If love appears, boundaries will disappear. If love appears, then who will be a Christian and then who will be a Jew? If love appears, religions will disappear. If Love appears, who is going to go to the temple? For what? It is because love is missing that you are searching for God. God is nothing but a substitute for your missing love. Because you are not blissful, because you are not peaceful, because you are not ecstatic - you are searching for God - otherwise, who bothers? Who cares? If your life is a dance, God has been attained already. The loving heart is full of God. There is no need for any search, there is no need for any prayer, there is no need to go to any temple, to any priest. Hence the priest and the politician, these two, are the enemies of humanity. They are a conspiracy, because the politician wants to rule your body, and the priest wants to rule your soul. And the secret is the same: destroy love. Then a man is nothing but a hollowness, an emptiness, a meaningless existence. Then you can do whatsoever you want with humanity and nobody will rebel, nobody will have courage enough to rebel. Love gives courage, love takes all fear away - and the oppressors depend on your fear. They create fear in you, a thousand and one kinds of fear." |
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Wed, February 13, 2008 - 1:15 PM
Wow - this is wise and powerfull - really awesome stuff!
I will also be looking out for the book. |
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Wed, February 13, 2008 - 3:31 PM
yeah, isn't it? i'm looking forward to reading more ... with a slight bit of skepticism for osho i have to say. he's not without his detractors..
the only thing i don't agree with in the quotes above is that he again creates a separatism - by vilifying the 'priest' and 'politician' as enemies of the rest of us. as if they aren't human too, even if these positions often include abuse of power? it seems more accurate to me to refer to 'religion' and 'government' as forces that have often collectively manipulated the masses through fear. but to hate politicians isn't any better or more justified than hating a jew or christian, etc. know what i mean? it might sound like i'm picking nits, but i'm trying lately to be a very careful reader of opinion pieces such as this. gurus are humans, too, with flaws. and there's so much eloquent opinion out there, i always feel like it's important to sort through it all with an open yet questioning mind to find the truth within it ... and the human flaws, too. otherwise i would just be a sheep who's blindly rooting for the 'other' side. :-) |
