hate exists with the
past and the future -- love needs no past, no future.

Love
exists in the present. Hate has a reference in the past:
somebody abused you yesterday and you are carrying it
like a wound, a hangover. Or you are afraid that somebody
is going to abuse you tomorrow -- a fear, a shadow of the
fear. And you are already getting ready, you are getting
prepared to encounter it.
Hate exists in the past and the future. You cannot hate in
the present -- try, and you will be utterly impotent.


Try it today:

sit silently and hate somebody in the present, with
no reference to the past or the future...you cannot do it. It
cannot be done; in the very nature of things it is impossible.


Hate can exist only if you remember the past: this man did
something to you yesterday -- then hate is possible.
Or this
man is going to do something tomorrow -- then too hate is
possible. But if you don't have any reference to the past or
the future -- this man has not done anything to you and he
is not going to do anything to you, this man is just sitting
there -- how can you hate? But you can love.


Love needs no reference -- that's the beauty of love and the
freedom of love.

Hate is a bondage.
Hate is imprisonment -
- imposed by you upon yourself. And hate creates hate, hate
provokes hate. If you hate somebody you are creating hate
in that person's heart for yourself. And the whole world
exists in hate, in destructiveness, in violence, in jealousy, in
competitiveness.

People are at each other's throats either in
reality, actuality, in action, or at least in their minds, in
their thoughts, everybody is murdering, killing. That's why
we have created a hell out of this beautiful earth -- which
could have become a paradise.


Love, and the earth becomes a paradise again. And the
immense beauty of love is that it has no reference. Love
comes from you for no reason at all. It is your outpouring
bliss, it is your sharing of your heart. It is the sharing of the
song of your being. And sharing is so joyful -- hence one
shares! Sharing for sharing's sake, for no other motive.


But what love you have known in the past is not the love.

Your love is
nothing but the other side of hate.
Hence your love has
reference: somebody has been beautiful to you yesterday,
so nice he was that you feel great love for him.

This is not
love; this is the other side of hate -- the reference proves it.

Or somebody is going to be nice to you tomorrow: the way
he smiled at you, the way he talked to you, the way he
invited you to his house tomorrow -- he is going to be
loving to you. And great love arises.

This is not the love buddhas talk about. This is hate
disguised as love -- that's why your love can turn into hate
any moment. Scratch a person just a little bit, and the love
disappears and hate arises. It is not even skin-deep. Even
so-called great lovers are continuously fighting,
continuously at each other's throats -- nagging, destructive.
And people think this is love....



You can ask Astha and Abhiyana -- they are in such a love
that Astha is having a black eye almost every day. Great
fight! But when great fight goes on, people think something
is happening. When nothing is happening -- no fight, no
quarrel -- people feel empty. "It is better to be fighting than
to be empty" -- that's the idea of millions of people in the
world. At least the fight keeps you engaged, at least the
fight keeps you involved, and the fight makes you
important. Life seems to have some meaning -- ugly
meaning, but at least some meaning.



Your love is not really love: it is its very opposite. It is hate
disguised as love, camouflaged as love, parading as love.
True love has no reference. It thinks not of the yesterdays,
it thinks not of the tomorrows. True love is a spontaneous
welling up of joy in you...and the sharing of it...and the
showering of it...for no other reason, for no other motive,
than just the joy of sharing it.


The birds singing in the morning, this cuckoo calling from
the distance...for no reason. The heart is just so full of joy
that a song bursts forth. When I am talking about love I am
talking about such love. Remember it. And if you can move
into the dimension of this love, you will be in paradise
immediately.

And you will start creating a paradise on the
earth.

Love creates love just as hate creates hate.


IN THIS WORLD
HATE NEVER YET DISPELLED HATE.
ONLY LOVE DISPELS HATE.
THIS IS THE LAW,
ANCIENT AND INEXHAUSTIBLE