Anger, hate and love

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WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN SOMEBODY HATES YOU?

 

WHETHER SOMEBODY HATES YOU OR SOMEBODY LOVES YOU SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE

IN YOU. If you are, you remain the same. If you are not, then you are

immediately changed. If you are not, then anybody can pull you, push you; then

anybody can push your buttons and change you. Then you are a slave, then you

are not a master. Your mastery begins when whatsoever happens outside does not

change you; your inner climate remains the same.

 

Whether somebody loves you or hates you, it is his or her problem. If you are,

if you have understood your being, you remain in tune with yourself. Nobody can

disturb your inner harmony. If somebody loves, good; if somebody hates, good.

Both remain somewhere outside you. This is what we call mastery. This is what

we call crystallization -- becoming free of impressions, influences.

 

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Once being is attained, one is compassion, unconditional compassion. Not that

in some moments he becomes compassionate and some moments he is not

compassionate. Compassion then is his natural climate, compassion is his

permanent mood, compassion is his integrated being. Then whatsoever you do, his

compassion goes on showering on you. But there are moments when you will

receive it, when you will be open, and there are moments when you will not

receive it because you will be closed.

 

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If you are identified with your body and somebody hurts your body, you will be

angry; he is hurting YOU. If you are identified with your mind and somebody

insults you, you will be angry, because he is hurting your mind. Once you are

identified with your being nobody can hurt, because nobody has yet invented any

way to hurt being.

 

The body can be hurt, can be killed. The mind can be hurt...but the being

cannot be touched. There is no way to hurt it, there is no way to create pain.

It's VERY nature is blissfulness. You can hurt my body; simple. If I am

identified with the body I will be angry because I will think you have hurt me.

If you insult me then the hurt goes into the mind. If I am identified with the

mind, again you are my enemy. But I am neither identified with the body nor

with the mind. I am the witness. So whatsoever you do never reaches to my

witnessing center. It goes on witnessing it; it remains utterly unaffected.

Once false identifications fall, you are unperturbed. Then you become the

center of the cyclone, and storms can go on raging all around you, but deep

inside you remain at the still, small center of your being, completely

transcendental to whatsoever is happening.

 

 

Osho: The Beloved, Vol.2, Ch.8