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The third question:
Question 3
WHERE IS THE LOVE IN BUDDHA'S TEACHINGS? I CAN'T FEEL IT.
It is like going to a chemist's shop and telling him 'I can see all kinds of medicines and drugs here, but I don't see any kind of health.' Medicines bring health. They have to be absorbed, then they change your chemistry: health arises, is discovered.
Buddha does not talk about love; he is simply giving you the key to inner change. If you use the key, love will arise, love will flow -- love will be a consequence. What is the point of talking about health? A person goes on talking about health... You go, and you are ill, and he goes on talking about health and never gives any medicine to you -- how long are you going to listen to this man? Sooner or later you will be fed up, and you will say 'I am fed up. Give me some medicine. I have come here not to listen about health, I have come here to be healthy and whole. Talking won't help.'
So Buddha does not talk about love, but he prepares the ground where love blooms. You will not find any talk about love in Buddha's teachings -- he has not even used the word 'love'. But he is a scientist of the soul; he simply gives you medicines. Health is going to happen within you. There is no need to talk about love, there is no need to talk about God, there is no need to talk about the ultimate results; all that is needed is to persuade you, to seduce you, into taking the medicine.
You are like small children who will not take the medicine -- and medicines are bitter -- instead they will run and escape from the mother, they will hide. And they will say 'We are not going to take this medicine, this is too bitter.' Their whole concern is that the medicine should be a sweet thing; they are not concerned about the outcome, they are only concerned with the momentary taste. And there are many in the world who become attached to teachings which look sweet.
Buddha may not look very sweet -- he is not, he is bitter. He himself has said that he is a physician, that his approach is not that of a preacher but that of a physician; he treats ill people. And this whole world is a hospital, everybody is ill.
What do you want? Do you want Buddha to talk about love? How is that going to help you? And how are you going to understand it? He will talk about love -- his love, and you will understand about love -- your love. And they are poles apart -- diametrically opposite. His love is a state, it is not a relationship. His love does not depend upon anybody else, his love is simply his overpouring. He is so full that he has to go on overflowing, he has to go on sharing; he is super-saturated, superabundant. There is no way he can avoid loving -- he is love.
When you are in love you are not love, you are only in love. When you are in love it is a kind of relationship, a need; you are a beggar. When you are in love you are asking for love. 'Give me love' -- that's what you call love. Even if you have to give a little bit, you give it only as part of the bargain. But you want to snatch more than you have been given. That's the conflict between all the lovers, husbands and wives -- constantly fighting and quarrelling. What is the base of it? Each is thinking 'I am giving more and receiving less -- the other is cheating.' Both want to cheat each other. And I can understand what the problem is. When you are asking for love, one thing is certain: you don't have any love in your being; otherwise, why should you ask? If you have, you need not ask; you will be fufilled by it, it will be welling up in you, it will be flowing. In fact, you will ask people to receive, to open their hearts. And you will feel grateful to people who receive your love. You will not be a beggar, you will be an emperor.
Buddha is an emperor. He gives, and he is thankful to all those who receive. When you go in love, you are just a beggar: two beggars begging each other. The outcome is misery, the outcome is ugly, the outcome is hell. Buddha's love is not a relationship, it is relating. He simply relates; but there is no bondage in it, there is no obsession with any per-son in particular. Buddha talking about love will be saying one thing, you will understand something else.
That's what happened with Jesus: he talked about love, but he has not been understood at all. A church has arisen around him which is unloving, absolutely unloving; other-wise, how can you explain all the wars which have happened between Christianity and other religions, all the crusades, all the murder, the killing, and all the bloodshed? Jesus may have talked about love, which is the love of a Buddha, but the followers... ? they understand in their own way. And when your understanding is not clear, great things can become great dangers.
Buddha has not talked about love -- and Buddhism is the least ugly religion in the world -- he has not talked about 'loving your neighbours as yourself', and he has not given you any message to serve people. But he has given medicines -- his meditations are his medicines. If you go into meditation, love will arise; it is a consequence.
You ask, Tusheer, WHERE IS THE LOVE IN BUDDHA'S TEACHINGS?
There is no love in the teachings -- the teachings are medicinal. Go into those teachings. Let those teachings become your heart. Let understanding arise, and you will find love following that understanding, coming as a shadow. It need not be talked about -- love will come. Forget all about love -- it comes of its own accord. Become silent.
That's why I can understand your question. It is relevant -- many have asked it before. One expects a Buddha to talk about love, but your expectations are your expectations; no Buddha is obliged to fulfil them. He has to work from his vision. His vision is that you need an alchemical change of your consciousness, then love will come: it will be a flowering.
Look at a gardener. When he is cleaning the ground to plant rose bushes, are there any flowers? And if you see the gardener cleaning the ground, and removing the stones and the rocks, and replacing earth, you will be puzzled -- where are the rose flowers? And then he brings the rose bushes, and you will be puzzled -- where are the rose flowers? And then he plants the rose bushes, and waters them, morning, evening, and takes all kinds of care, and you go on wondering -- where are the roses? But one day, suddenly, you wake up in the morning and the fragrance is there. The bush is aflame with flowers.
Just like that it happens. Love will come on its own; you cannot bring it. And the love that you practise will be false, artificial -- an artifact. Love has to descend: it has to come from above. Then it is divine, and then it has a totally different song to it, a different dance to it. Then it doesn't bring misery, then it creates celebration in existence.

 

 

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