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Chapter 16 - Love is always an emperor
Question 3
BELOVED OSHO,
SOMETIMES AFTER MOMENTS OF CLARITY AND LIGHTNESS, IT SEEMS OLD
INTIMATES LIKE VIOLENT FEELINGS, JEALOUSY, FEELING FURIOUS, ETCETERA, COME BACK EVEN STRONGER THAN BEFORE, AS IF THEY WERE JUST WAITING
AROUND THE CORNER TO HAVE THEIR CHANCE AGAIN. CAN YOU SAY
SOMETHING?
Devam Kranti, I can say something, but those feelings of violence and jealousy and furiousness will still be waiting by the corner. Just by my saying something, they are not going to disappear -- because without knowing, you are nourishing them; without knowing, your desire to get free of them is very superficial.
You are not doing exactly what I have been emphasizing continually; you are doing just the opposite. You are fighting with the darkness, and you are not bringing the light in. You can go on fighting with the darkness as long as you want -- you are not going to be victorious.
That does not mean that you are weaker than darkness, it simply means that what you are doing is irrelevant to darkness.
Darkness is only an absence.
You cannot do anything directly to it -- just bring light in.
And it is not that when you bring light in, darkness will rush outside through all the doors.
Darkness is an absence -- light comes... there is no question of absence anymore.
Darkness does not go anywhere, it has no existence of its own.
I will read your question: "Sometimes after moments of clarity and lightness, it seems old intimates like violent feelings, jealousy, feeling furious, etcetera etcetera, come back even stronger than before, as if they were just waiting around the corner to have their chance again."
Your clarity and your lightness are only momentary. If you bring in the light for a moment and then blow out the candle, the darkness will be back again -- not that it was waiting by the corner; you have again created the absence of light.
Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
These feelings that you think are very dangerous are almost impotent. Violence is there because you have not grown your potential for love -- it is the absence of love. And people go on doing stupid things. They try to be nonviolent: they repress the violence, they make tremendous efforts to be nonviolent.
But there is no need for anybody to be nonviolent because you are moving in a wrong direction. Violence is a negative thing, and you are trying to destroy violence and become nonviolent. I would say, forget about violence. It is the absence of love -- be more loving. All the energy that you are putting into repressing violence and becoming nonviolent -- pour it into being love.
Osho - The Hidden Splendor 165
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