Love and Hate

And that new man will find this whole world new because he will have fresh eyes, with new qualities to see; fresh ears, with new ways to hear; new hands to feel and touch things in a new way. And a single man of that awareness starts triggering the process of awareness in others. Not by any effort, not that he has to do something to trigger the process – that doing has been our undoing. He has just to go on living his way, being his way, and it starts happening of its own accord.

His presence somehow starts something in people who come close to him: an arising of a new energy, the beginning of a new flame. He does nothing, nor does the other person do anything. It happens. All that is needed is a little closeness, friendship.

The enlightened man is just like a rain cloud. He gives you love, not to get anything back. He shares it and is obliged to you that you allowed him the opportunity; that you were open enough, available, vulnerable; that you did not reject when he was ready to pour all his blessings on you; that you opened your heart and received as much as was within your capacity.

The enlightened man simply gives. It is not that he wants to get something from you – you don’t have anything to give him. What do you have to give him? He gives because he has too much to give, he is overburdened. He gives because he is like a rain cloud, so full of rain that it has to shower. It does not matter where, on whom – on rocks, on good soil, on gardens, in the ocean… It doesn’t matter at all. The cloud simply wants to unburden itself.

If the man of enlightenment has no love, no hate, that means he will be indifferent, neutral – no, that is not the meaning. He has a new kind, a new quality of love which is not opposed to hate. There is no word for it. So, either I have to say he has no hate, no love the way you have, or I have to say that his love is a totally new kind of love: a love which is closer to compassion than to passion, which is closer to relatedness than to a relationship. A love which is more a giving without asking anything in return than your so-called love which is a bargain – where each party is trying to get more and give less.

My message of love is not the message of that love which is the polar opposite of hate. My message of love is of that love which is capable of absorbing hate and transforming it.

No, what I am saying is about the fear that love can make a man so mad that he can start believing in things like this; then he is beyond your control.

To keep man in control, you have to create a false idea of love in him from a very early age and continuously force it, so that he never becomes possessed by authentic love and never goes mad. He remains always sane and to be sane means to be a slave to the rules of society; to be sane means to be a follower of the games of society. Love can make him rebellious. False love makes him obedient.

Never judge anybody by his act because the real thing is not the act, but the consciousness through which that act has been performed.

When a man hates you, you can trust that he hates you. But when he loves you, you cannot trust him.

Jesus has meant nothing to them except those stories: the virgin birth, his walking on water, his turning water into wine, his changing stones into bread; his curing of blind people, crippled people, paralyzed people; his raising of the dead to life. All these stories are the basis for the Christian to have faith.
If all these stories are true, then Jesus is a mythological figure. He cannot be a historical fact because real men don’t walk on water. There is no way to change water into wine, there is no way to change stones into bread.