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ENERGY
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GAIN ENERGY
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THE
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THE
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MASTERY
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Taoism - Daoism - Tao - DaoVOL. 3, TAO: THE THREE TREASURESChapter-8This is the Queen; CleopatraSixth Question
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Question 6 WHY DOES LOVE FEEL MORE ILLUSORY THAN HATE? Yes it feels so. Love feels more illusory than hate because in love you have to drop the ego, and in hate the ego is strengthened. That's why people love less and hate more. Even the person they love -- they find something to hate in him. You hate ninety-nine per cent, and one per cent you love. And even that one per cent looks dreamlike because when the ego disappears in certain moments, you are not there. When the ego comes back the ego cannot remember exactly what happened, because it was not there; it looks like a dream, as if it never happened, you simply dreamed about it. Ego has no memory of love experience. If you are really in love, for that single moment an ecstasy happens; the ego is not there. Boundaries merge, mingle, meet, disappear into each other. After the experience when the ego is back, again boundaries have come, you are separate from the lover, the experience seems to be as if you have seen it in a film, read it in a novel -- or, really it HAPPENED? The ego was not a witness to it. It is just as in the morning, you feel the night was good, you slept well, but if somebody insists, How do you know, because you were so fast asleep? you shrug your shoulders, you yourself become a little hesitant. You say, Yes you are right, just a feeling has remained. Because in sleep, deep sleep, ego disappears. That is why Patanjali says in his yoga sutras that samadhi and sleep have one thing in common, and that is the disappearance of the ego. Love and samadhi also have one thing in common -- the disappearance of the ego. Ego is so identified with you that without it you cannot function, so whenever ego disappears then -- everything seems to be illusory. Hate seems to be more real, fighting seems to be more of a challenge. This is my observation: that many people love just to fight. And people get interested in love affairs if there is some challenge, otherwise not. There are women who will fall in love only with somebody else's husband, never with a bachelor, because then there is no fight. No challenge. There are men who are always looking at others' wives but are not interested in unmarried women, not interested. Because unless the triangle is there the story seems to be meaningless. You cannot make a film without a triangle, you cannot write a novel without a triangle. Just twos -- the whole thing seems to be a little boring. The third gives challenge, energy, and then you are alert and fighting. Even in love you are seeking hate and fight and war and conflict, because ego feeds on conflict. So hate seems to be more real. That's why wherever there is war in the world: see people's faces -- they look more radiant, their walk has a different quality, they move fast, they look very interested. In the morning, just at BRAHMAMUHURT, they get up and enquire for the newspaper, and everywhere people are talking, and -- it's as if something is happening. When there is no war they become dull. Life becomes a routine. Hate seems to be more real. And this should not be so. If you are alert just otherwise will be the case: hate will become unreal, love will become real, because the reality can be known only when the ego disappears. Through the ego reality cannot be known: that is the barrier to reality. |
Next: Chapter 8, This is the Queen; Cleopatra, Seventh Question
Energy Enhancement Enlightened Texts Taoism Tao: The three treasures
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