What has your love done to you?

Dreams and dreams and dreams.

And dreams are only when you look at your love somewhere there in the future, then it is a dream. When you look back at the love that has happened, then it is a nightmare.

All dreams prove nightmares. No, this is not love,otherwise the whole earth would have been happy.

So many people loving, everybody is loving...the mother is loving, the father is loving, the son, the sister, the brother, the wife, the husband, the friend, the priest, the politician, everybody is loving to everybody, love must be so much....

But look into people’s eyes – there is only misery and nothing else.

Then something has gone wrong,something else has been named love. It is not love.

On the container it says’love’, but look into the content: jealousy, possessiveness, anger, hatred, domination, all ugly things are there.

Yes, the container is very beautiful, very well packed, like a Christmas gift. Open... and inside, just hell.

This love I am not talking about.

When you go inside your being a totally new energy arises. You have so much energy that you would like to share it, then love is a SHARING.

Then you don’t need love, then you are not in need of somebody to love you. For the first time you have possessed your treasure of love; and a new need arises to share it, to give it to whomsoever needs it.
Share it and give it.

When love is a need and you want somebody to love you, it is going to create misery.

It is a beggar’s love, and beggars can’t be happy. When love has been known – and that is only possible
when you move inwards and come to the innermost shrine of your being
When you have known the reservoir of love there, then a new need arises to share it, to give it,to whomsoever needs it.

Give it, and you feel thankful that somebody has taken it. Then there is happiness, then love is heaven.
But then a need has taken a radical turn: now you need to give.

Right now, you need somebody to give to you – you are a beggar. Then, you become an emperor. The inner discipline makes you an emperor.

OshO 
Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 1

— with Biplab Kumar Dutta and Krishna Prasad Dhakal.