OSHO ON MARRIAGE :
OSHO ON MARRIAGE :
Marriage is a great teaching; it is an opportunity to learn something: to learn that dependence is not love, that to depend means conflict, anger, rage, hatred, jealousy, possessiveness, domination. And one has to learn not to depend. For that you will need great meditativeness, so that you can be so blissful on your own, and that you don't need the other. When you don't need the other, the dependence disappears. Once you don't need the other you can share your joy - and sharing is beautiful.
I would like a different kind of relationship in the world. I call it relating just to make it different from your old kind of relationship. I would like a different kind of marriage in the world. I will not call it marriage because that word has become poisoned; I would like to call it just a friendship… just a loving togetherness. No promise for tomorrow; this moment is enough. And if you love each other this moment and if you enjoy each other this moment, if you can share with each other this moment, the next moment will be born out of it; it will become more and more enriched. As time passes by, your love will become deeper, it will start having new dimensions, but it will not create any bondage…
I know perfectly well that men and women will need to be together, but it will not be out of need but out of overflowing joy, not out of poverty but out of richness - because you have so much that you have to give. It is just like when a flower opens, its fragrance is released to the winds because it is so full of fragrance that it has to release it. Or when a cloud comes in the sky it showers; it has to shower - it is so full of rain water it has to share…
We have to change the whole structure of humanity from the very roots. Marriage has to go the way it has existed up to now and a totally new concept has to be introduced. Only then can a new man be born on the earth.
OSHO
Tao: The Golden Gate Vol. II
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