What is the difference between love and hatred, and between good and bad?
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"Love and hatred are two sides of the same coin; true transformation arises not from choosing one over the other, but from transcending the duality through inner silence and meditation."
According to Osho, love and hatred, and good and bad, are polar twins: each hides and breeds its opposite, so they easily flip into one another. Ordinary love carries repressed hate; conventional good depends on evil. True transformation comes by transcending this dialectic through meditation and inner silence, where a fresh quality—compassionate, insight-born, “rising in love”—appears beyond opposites.
Love and hate (and good and bad) are a see-saw; get still inside to step off and find a kinder, wiser love.
Why this matters practically
- Helps you avoid swinging between extremes in relationships.
- Encourages meditation to cultivate stable compassion instead of reactive love/hate.
- Guides ethical choices from inner insight rather than shifting social labels.
- Encourages meditation to cultivate stable compassion instead of reactive love/hate.
- Guides ethical choices from inner insight rather than shifting social labels.
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