When you say, “When I love someone it becomes an attachment,” you are saying you are not. So whatever you do goes wrong, because the doer is absent. The inner point of awareness is not there, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. First be, and then you can share your being. And that sharing will be love. Before that, whatsoever you do will become an

Do not make anyone a slave; otherwise you will become a slave.

Love yourself, says Buddha, and then immediately he adds, and watch. That is meditation—that is Buddha’s name for meditation. But the first requirement is to love yourself, and then watch. If you don’t love yourself, and start watching, you may feel like committing suicide!

Misery is as infectious as any disease. Blissfulness is also infectious as any disease.

Sex is transcended not by your effort. It happens if you have lived it totally. So my suggestion is, drop all “anti” attitudes, antilife attitudes, and accept the facticity: sex is, so who are you to drop it? And who is trying to drop it? It is just the ego. Remember, sex creates the greatest problem for the ego.

There are problems that are creative because they lead you to higher awareness. There are problems that lead you nowhere; they simply keep you tethered, they simply keep you in your old mess. Love creates problems. You can avoid those problems by avoiding love—but those are very essential problems! They have to be faced, encountered; they have to

Love is the undercurrent of your being. It is already flowing, but there are many rocks, many layers of earth to be removed. That’s what I mean when I say learn the art of love. It is really not learning love but unlearning the ways of unlove.

agree totally with Dr. Thomas Gordon, who says, “I think all parents are potential child-abusers, because the basic way of raising children is through power and authority. I think it is destructive when many parents have the idea: ‘It is my kid, I can do what I want to do with my kid.’ It is violent, it is destructive.” A child is not a thing, it

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything you are attached to nothing.