If you love a person, how can you destroy his or her freedom?
how can you destroy his or her freedom?
If you trust a person,
you trust her or his freedom too.
One day it happened that a man came to me
who was really in a mess, very miserable.
And he said, ‘I will commit suicide.’
I said, ‘Why?‘
He said, ‘I trusted my wife and she has betrayed me.
I had trusted her absolutely
and she has been in love with some other man.
And I never came to know about it until just now!
I have got hold of a few letters.
So then I inquired, and then I insisted,
and now she has confessed that
she has been in love all the time.
I will commit suicide’ he said.
I said, ‘You say you trusted her?’
He said, ‘Yes, I trusted her and she betrayed me.‘
What do you mean by trust?—
some wrong notion about trust;
trust also seems to be political.
‘You trusted her so that
she would not betray you.
Your trust was a trick.
Now you want to make her feel guilty.
This is not trust.‘
He was very puzzled.
He said, ‘What do you mean by trust then,
if this is not trust?
I trusted her unconditionally.‘
I said, ‘If I were in your place,
trust would mean to me
that I trust her freedom,
and I trust her intelligence,
and I trust her loving capacity.
If she falls in love with somebody else,
I trust that too.
She is intelligent,
she can choose.
She is free, she can love.
I trust her understanding.’
What do you mean by trust?
When you trust her intelligence,
her understanding, her awareness,
you trust it.
And if she finds that
she would like to move into love
with somebody else,
it is perfectly okay.
Even if you feel pain,
that is your problem;
it is not her problem.
And if you feel pain,
that is not because of love,
that is because of jealousy.
What kind of trust is this,
that you say it has been betrayed?
My understanding of trust is
that it cannot be betrayed.
By its very nature,
by its very definition,
trust cannot be betrayed.
It is impossible to betray trust.
If trust can be betrayed,
then it is not trust.
Think over it.
If I love a woman,
I trust her intelligence infinitely.
And, if in some moments
she wants to be loving
to somebody else,
it is perfectly good.
I have always trusted her intelligence.
She must be feeling like that.
She is free.
She is not my other half,
she is independent.
And when two persons
are independent individuals,
only then there is love.
Love can flow only
between two freedoms.
Osho - Tantric Transformation
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