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Why does nature do evil, such as a river flooding?

Nature is neither good nor evil; it simply flows, and in its flow, we find both creation and destruction intertwined. Maturity lies in embracing the totality of existence, where every gain is shadowed by loss.

— Osho
According to Osho, nature does nothing 'evil'; it is amoral causality. The same forces that ripen wheat also flood fields; fire cooks and burns. Benefit and harm arise together—remove the cause and both vanish. Calling floods 'evil' reflects our self-centered clinging, especially to life. Maturity means accepting the whole: birth with death, gain with loss.

Nature isn’t against us; the same things that help us can also hurt us, and we call it bad because we’re attached to our own needs and to life.

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