Love exists in equality

The freedom of woman from man's slavery will also be freedom for man to experience love. So, I call the women's liberation movement not only women's liberation movement, it is also the men's liberation movement: both will be liberated. The slavery is binding them both, and there is continuous struggle. The woman has found her own strategies of how to harass the husband, of how to nag him, of how to put him down; and the man has his own strategy.... We have been hoping that love is happening. Centuries have passed - love has not happened, or only once in a while....

Only together, in a deep feeling of oneness, do they feel for the first time totality, perfection. But to attain this perfection, you have to go beyond the love-hate duality. And you are capable of going beyond duality. Right now, they go on hand in hand in your life: you love the same person you hate. So, in the morning it is hate, in the evening it is love - and it is a very confusing thing. You don't even understand whether you love the person or you hate the person, because you do both at different times.

And we have been told, taught, programmed in such a way that even a thing like love has to be from the mind. It is basically of the heart, but our whole society has tried to bypass the heart, because the heart is not logical, is not rational.


Abridged from The Path of the Mystic; Courtesy: OSHO Times International; www.osho.com