Everybody Can Laugh

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From:Come, Come, Yet Again Come

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Osho,
You say fear is the opposite of love. Have you any practical or impractical suggestions how one can drop fear?

"Love is existential; fear is only the absence of love. And the..."
Osho,
You say fear is the opposite of love. Have you any practical or impractical suggestions how one can drop fear?

"Love is existential; fear is only the absence of love. And the..."

Osho continues:
"The person who becomes obsessed with fear will never be able to resolve the problem. It is like wrestling with darkness – you are bound to be exhausted sooner or later, tired and defeated. And the miracle is, defeated by something which is not there at all! And when one is defeated, one certainly feels how powerful the darkness is, how powerful the fear is, how powerful the ignorance is, how powerful the unconscious is. They are not powerful at all – they don't exist in the first place.

"Never fight with the nonexistential. That's where all the ancient religions got lost. Once you start fighting with the nonexistential you are doomed. Your small river of consciousness will be lost in the nonexistential desert – and it is infinite.

"Hence, the first thing to remember is: don't make a problem out of fear. Love is the question. Something can be done about love immediately; there is no need to wait or postpone. Start loving! And it is a natural gift from God to you, or from the whole, whichever term you like. If you are brought up in a religious way, then God; if you are not brought up in a religious way, then the whole, the universe, the existence.

"Remember, love is born with you; it is your intrinsic quality. All that is needed is to give it a way – to make a passage for it, to let it flow, to allow it to happen. We are all blocking it, holding it back. We are so miserly about love, for the simple reason that we have been taught a certain economics. That economics is perfectly right about the outside world: if you have so much money and you go on giving that money to people, soon you will be a beggar, soon you will have to beg yourself. By giving money you will lose it. This economics, this arithmetic has entered into our blood, bones and marrow. It is true about the outside world – nothing is wrong in it – but it is not true about the inner journey. There, a totally different arithmetic functions: the more you give, the more you have; the less you give, the less you have."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 65 mins
File Size 25.23 MB
Type Individual Talks