... problem. Everybody wants to be loved and nobody knows what love is, and nobody knows how to love himself. Love is a great art! People learn how to paint, people learn how to play music; for years people practise playing music. Then slowly slowly they become capable of creating something beautiful. Love is the GREATEST beauty and the greatest phenomenon, and you never learn it. Everybody thinks that by...

... just being born, you are capable of love. That is nonsense. Life is an opportunity to learn what love is. The potential is there, but the potential has to be transmuted into the actual. It is like everybody is potentially capable of swimming, but that does not mean that you know what swimming is - you will have to learn. It may look paradoxical, but it is not. Meditate on this statement: One has to...

... wrong. You have some idea of what real love is. You must be a perfectionist, and in life nothing is perfect. That's why things are beautiful! If in life things were perfect, life would have been utter boredom. Bertrand Russell seems to be right when he says, "I would not like to go to heaven if there is any heaven, because there you will find only perfect people, and life will be utterly boring...

.... Love is a delicate phenomenon, very delicate. It is difficult to create it; it is very easy to destroy it. It is a VERY delicate note - only a few guitar players can create it. It is a really delicate note. It is more silence than sound. And if there is any sound in it, it is only to function as a backdrop for the silence, just to function as a contact. You never learnt what love is - you never...

... said, "It is good you asked. I used to come here because I have been moving around the town more than anybody's boy. I am less in the school and more in the town! I have been watching all kinds of people, sitting with all kinds of people. You are the only one with whom I feel a silence. You are not throwing anything at me - and that's what I love." Everybody is throwing something or other...

... becomes really loud, but you will not find any love there. Love is not a heartbeat. Then what is love? Has anybody ever been able to define it? No, there is no way to define it. There are things which are indefinable, hence I call my religion pure mysticism, because I accept things which cannot be explained, which cannot be defined, which can only be lived, which can only be known by experience. If you...

... about it when it is not there. Or can you do something? You can pretend. You can show that you are very loving and you know deep down there is no love. You will be false, you will not be authentic. And if you get accustomed to this, by and by you will forget what real love is. You will become accustomed to the pseudo, to the pretended, to the false. If you watch you will see sometimes like a breeze it...

.... You simply move. Whenever you ask an abstract question, like "What is a problem?" or "What is yellowness?" or "What is love?" it becomes difficult. St. Augustine has said, "I know what time is, but when people ask me, "What is time?" suddenly I lose all track. "Everybody knows what time is, but if somebody asks what it is, exactly, you will be in...

... diminish. If I cling to this notion of the love diminishing, I need to accept that I have no idea what love is. If I had any appreciation of true love, I would want my beloved to go out and give it freely to the whole world, because through so giving it she would come to understand its secrets and its mysteries, and as she fell deeper and deeper into love, her love towards me, too, would be overflowing...

... love is unknown to you. This is why you find it so hard to understand what God is. One who understands what true love is does not worry about understanding God, because if you know love you know God - they are part and parcel of the same arithmetic, they belong to the same dimension. One who has understood true love will say, "It's all right even if I don't know God. I have known love, it is...

..., the very extreme of illogic.... We can understand love, but then what about renunciation? We can understand renunciation, but what about love? They seem to be the greatest contradictions possible. When you love, how can you renounce? And when you renounce, how can you love? Try to understand it. Ordinary love is a sort of sleep: you become attached to the object of love, you start feeling jealous...

... a few schools and colleges introduce the subject, they make it almost theoretical. What about the practical? Each subject, they know, needs a practical period: Chemistry you cannot teach only theoretically, physics you cannot teach only theoretically - you have a practical period. What about love? Why cannot teachers demonstrate? The whole college can see - just one lady teacher, one man teacher...

... anywhere. The Sufis are the people on the path of love. Love has no techniques, love is enough unto itself - but the heart has to function for it. And the camel has no heart. And the larva has no idea of what heart is, what feeling is, what love is. He has never dreamt about it. The larva has never dreamt about being a caterpillar, just as the caterpillar has not dreamt about being a butterfly. Two...

... makes things easy. The young man's interest is sex, is not love. Love is an excuse, love is politeness, love is culture, sophistication, but his real interest is sex. Love is like sugar that we coat on bitter pills - that's how the young man is interested. His real love is sex. It is not incidental that the young people all over the world have started calling sex 'making love'. That's what their love...

... great attraction in being free from this cage that has become your life. But this is the only life that you know of. Then there comes fear - who knows? is there another life or not? You may simply disappear as you are and you may not appear on another plane, in another existence - then what? Making love to a woman or man, the same fear grips you. That's why orgasm is so impossible, so difficult. And...

.... Now, this type of mind is not going to know what love is. This type of mind is closed, absolutely closed. And this type of mind is there in everybody, more or less. Drop this mind. All is good and all is divine - body is included. The whole body is included. Never make any distinction between body of the lower and the higher - there is nothing lower and nothing higher. The whole body is one, it is a...