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What happens when I experience conflicting feelings of love and fear towards a teacher?

Love and fear towards a teacher are not opposites; they are two branches of the same tree, where love signifies the death of the ego and fear reveals its trembling at the brink of its own demise. Choose trust and vulnerability, for love and ego cannot coexist.

— Osho
According to Osho, feeling both love and fear for a teacher is not a split but the same process: love is a conscious death of the ego, and fear is the ego trembling at its own demise. The two are branches of one tree. Bring it to awareness, stop identifying with the ego, and choose trust and vulnerability—love or ego cannot coexist.

Feeling scared while loving your teacher just means your ego fears losing control; notice it and gently let love, trust, and openness melt that ego.

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