Good and bad are human conceptions, not divine !
BUT DON'T BECOME A DICTATOR -- LOVE NEVER DICTATES. And if you never dictate, then this goodness and badness will disappear. Then you will love both. Your love will flow unconditionally. And that's how God's love is flowing: unconditionally to this world. I have heard...
Somebody said to Junnaid, a Sufi mystic, that a very evil man comes to listen to you and you are allowing him too much closeness and intimacy. Throw him out, he is not a good man.
Junnaid said: If God is not throwing him out of existence, who am I to throw him out? If God accepts him... I am not superior to God. God gives him life, God helps him to be alive. And that man is still young and fresh and he will live long, longer than you. So who am I to decide?
Somebody said to Junnaid, a Sufi mystic, that a very evil man comes to listen to you and you are allowing him too much closeness and intimacy. Throw him out, he is not a good man.
Junnaid said: If God is not throwing him out of existence, who am I to throw him out? If God accepts him... I am not superior to God. God gives him life, God helps him to be alive. And that man is still young and fresh and he will live long, longer than you. So who am I to decide?
GOD IS SHOWERING ON BOTH THE GOOD AND THE BAD. The situation is absolutely clear, crystal-clear -- that for God there is no good, no bad. When I say God, I don't mean a person somewhere sitting up in the sky. That is an anthropocentric attitude: we conceive of God in our own image. There is nobody sitting there. GOD MEANS THE WHOLE, THE TOTALITY OF EXISTENCE.
A bad man breathes as beautifully as a good man. A SINNER IS AS ACCEPTED BY EXISTENCE AS A SAINT. The existence makes no differentiation. But because of dualistic thinking -- Christian, Mohammedan, Zoroastrian -- we think in terms of conflict....
The real thing is: FOR GOD, THERE IS NO GOOD, NO BAD. When he creates, he creates both; when he destroys, he destroys both -- unconditionally.
THIS IS REALLY FOOLISH, THIS ATTITUDE OF GOOD AND BAD. A person smoking cigarettes becomes bad, a person enjoying alcohol becomes bad, a person who has fallen in love with somebody else's wife becomes bad. And we think that God is also sitting there and calculating that this man smokes, this man has fallen into adultery, this man is an alcoholic -- let this fellow come and I will see. This is foolish if God is calculating about such trivial things! This is our tiny mind.
For existence, there is no interpretation and no division. GOOD AND BAD ARE HUMAN CONCEPTIONS, NOT DIVINE.
AND EVERY SOCIETY HAS ITS OWN CONCEPTIONS OF GOOD AND BAD. Every age changes and has its own conceptions of good and bad. THERE IS NO ABSOLUTENESS ABOUT GOOD AND BAD. Good and bad are relative -- relative to society, to culture, relative to us. God is absolute. For him, there is no distinction.
And if you are also deep in meditation where thoughts disappear, then there is no distinction -- because good and bad are thoughts. WHEN YOU ARE SILENT, WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS BAD? The moment the idea arises: this is good, that is bad, the silence has been lost. In deep meditation there is nothing -- no good, no bad.
Lao Tzu is reported to have said, that a hair's distinction, and heaven and hell are set apart. In the mind of a meditator, if even a slight distinction arises then the whole world is divided. MEDITATION IS NON-DISTINCTION, NO DISTINCTION. You simply look, and you see the whole and don't divide it. You don't say: This is ugly, that is beautiful; this is good, that is bad. You don't say anything. You simply are. You don't say anything, you don't make any division. The non-dual is there.
Lao Tzu is reported to have said, that a hair's distinction, and heaven and hell are set apart. In the mind of a meditator, if even a slight distinction arises then the whole world is divided. MEDITATION IS NON-DISTINCTION, NO DISTINCTION. You simply look, and you see the whole and don't divide it. You don't say: This is ugly, that is beautiful; this is good, that is bad. You don't say anything. You simply are. You don't say anything, you don't make any division. The non-dual is there.
IN MEDITATION YOU BECOME GOD. People think in meditation they will see God. This is wrong; there is nobody to be seen. God is not an object. In meditation you become God, because all distinctions disappear. IN MEDITATION YOU BECOME ONE WITH THE WHOLE -- because in meditation you cannot divide yourself from the whole, because all divisions have fallen! You are so silent that no boundary is there. Every boundary is a disturbance. YOU ARE SO SILENT: THERE IS NO I, NO THOU. You are so silent that all boundaries have blurred and disappeared. One exists, unity exists. This is what Hindus call the Brahma -- the one, the unity, the ultimate unity of existence.
IT IS MIND THAT DIVIDES, MAKES DISTINCTIONS, says this is this, that is that. In meditation, there is isness, undivided. You are God when you are in meditation. And only in meditation will you come to know unconditional love.
OSHO
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
Ch #14: Both are needed
am in Buddha Hall
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
Ch #14: Both are needed
am in Buddha Hall