The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within by Osho

Author:Osho [Osho]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Osho Media International
Published: 2012-05-14T18:30:00+00:00

The second question:

Osho,

You said that life exists in polar opposites like love and hate, attraction and repulsion, virtue and vice, et cetera. But what happens to these polar opposites when one is in the witnessing consciousness?

Don’t ask, wait for the happening, for what happens. You can ask and some answer can be given, but that answer cannot become an authentic answer for you. And never jump ahead. Don’t ask what happens when one dies. What happens? Whatsoever is said will be meaningless because you are still alive. What happens when someone is dead? You will have to pass through it. Unless you are dead you cannot know it. Whatsoever is said can be believed on trust, but this is meaningless.

Rather, ask how to be dead so that you can know what happens. No one else can die for you; no one else’s experience can be an experience for you. You will have to die. Death cannot be another’s experience for you, it has to be your own. Similar is the case here. What happens when polarities disappear? In a way nothing happens. “Happening” dissolves because all happening is polar. When love and hate both dissolve – and they do dissolve – what happens? When you love, you hate also – and you hate the same person you love. Hate is just hidden, and when hate comes up love goes down.

Jesus says, “Love your enemies,” and I say that you cannot do otherwise. You do love your enemies. You hate them so much, and without love that is impossible. Love is just the other aspect of the coin. And where is the demarcation where love ends and hate begins? There is just a gray extension. When do you hate someone and when do you love? Can you demark it? You love and hate the same person; any moment hate can become love and love can become hate. This is the polarity of mind, this is how mind functions. Don’t become worried about it. If you know, you will never become worried. If you love someone, you know hate will be there. If someone loves you, you will expect both – love and hate.

But what happens in a buddha-like consciousness when love and hate both disappear? What happens? It is difficult to express what happens, but whatsoever has been felt around Buddha is more like love without hate. It has been felt around Buddha; it is not that Buddha feels it so. Buddha cannot feel love now because he cannot feel hate. He cannot feel love, but around him everyone has felt a deep love flowing. We can describe it as love without hate, but then the quality is different.

With our love, hate is inevitably present. It colors it, it changes the quality of it. Hate gives a passion to love, a force, an intensity, a focused quality, a concentration, while Buddha’s love becomes a dispersed phenomenon. Intensity is not there. It cannot burn you, it can only warm you. It is not a fire, it is just a glow.

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