According to Osho, hatred is not an essential quality of being; it arises only in unconsciousness. In awakening, hatred and anger simply cannot exist—they fall away like a dream you can’t re-enter. Once consciousness flowers, you cannot ‘go back’ to the contracted state required for hatred; awareness dissolves the very mechanism that sustains it.
Hate comes from being asleep inside; when you truly wake up, it vanishes and can’t return.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
A friend has asked: Osho, you said that love is necessary for hatred. But many times, just on seeing a man with whom we have no acquaintance, we feel hatred; we don’t even feel like meeting him or talking to him. So in such moments, is hatred possible without love?
And there is another reason, deeper than this; keep it in mind. You often hate precisely those things—those qualities in others—which you hate in yourself. This is a little deeper; it is a layer even deeper than the previous one. When, suddenly on seeing a man, hatred arises in your mind, investigate whether this is not a part of self-condemnation. For what you find bad in yourself you will also find bad in the other. This is projection. What you wish were not in you—when you see it in another—hatred arises. Hence every expansion of hatred is, somewhere deep down, a part of self-hatred. Understand this. You do not want to be angry, yet anger happens. And you hate anger. So whenever you see a glimmer of anger in someone, hatred will arise. You do not want to steal, and yet you steal. So whenever you see a thief somewhere,…
Question: HE WHO SEES THE ENTIRE WORLD OF ANIMATE AND INANIMATE OBJECTS Dislike or hatred of another is the basis of deep-seated complications for mankind. It can be said that the poison of hatred becomes manifest in all his poisonous displays. The word hatred means the desire to destroy the other. Love means being willing to sacrifice oneself for another, if necessary. Hatred means being willing to destroy another for oneself even if it is not necessary. In the way we all live there is an abundance of hatred and no music of love. The feeling which we call love is, in fact, a form of hatred. In making love we make another our means for happiness; and no sooner does one make another a means than hatred begins. In making love we live for our own self. We want to serve our own selfish end.
Osho, you say that love and hate are one; but I see more hate in the world than love. At the same time, you say that enlightenment is neither love nor hate. Are you speaking of two different qualities of love? How does this fit with your message of love?
And it is only you who can find what is right for you and what is wrong for you. Then keep the thread of awareness running through all your actions, and in your life you will not find any hate, any anger, any jealousy. Not that you have dropped them, not that you have repressed them, not that you have somehow got rid of them, not that you have practiced doing something against them. No, you have not done anything, you have not even touched them. This is the beauty of awareness: it never represses anything; but there are things which simply melt in the light of awareness and change. And there are things which become more solid, more integrated, more profound, more strong: love, compassion, kindness, friendliness, understanding. All the religions up to date have been focusing people's minds on actions; and labeling -- this is bad, this is…
I feel a lot of hate inside me. What can I do about it?
This duality is a natural thing. If you love, then you have to hate. There are people who go on preaching: "Love the whole world!" But you cannot love the world unless you discover another world to hate. I don't think this planet Earth can become one until we discover enemies on some other planet. The moment we discover an enemy somewhere -- and we are trying very hard to find one -- then the whole world can become one. When India is fighting Pakistan, there is no fighting within India; India becomes one. There is a very deep patriotic feeling for India because now that love balances the hatred toward Pakistan. But when there is no war, then Hindus fight Mohammedans, and Brahmins fight Sudras, one state fights another state, one party fights another party... and the thing goes on. But if there is an enemy somewhere, then the…
Verse (Sanskrit): यस्तु सर्वाणि भूतान्यात्मन्येवानुपश्यति। सर्वभूतेषु चात्मानं ततो न विजुगुप्सते।।6।। Transliteration: yastu sarvāṇi bhūtānyātmanyevānupaśyati| sarvabhūteṣu cātmānaṃ tato na vijugupsate||6|| Translation: He who sees all beings in the Self alone। and the Self in all beings—then he does not loathe।।6।। He who beholds all beings only in the Self, and the Self also in all beings—therefore he harbors hatred toward none।।6।। At the root of man’s deepest entanglements lies hatred. One can say: the poison of hatred alone erupts in man and in all his poisonous expressions. Hatred means: an eagerness for the other’s destruction. Love means: a longing for the other’s life. Hatred means: a longing for the other’s death. Love means: the readiness, if need be, to end oneself for the other. Hatred means: even if there is no need, to be ready to end the other for oneself.