KRISHNA HAS TALKED ABOUT LOVE, Buddha too, Jesus, Nanak and Kabir, they all have talked

about love. BUT NOBODY HAS TALKED ABOUT LOVE LIKE ME. Their love is very ethereal, abstract; their love is not of this world at all. Their love is philosophical. The way they define their love and the way I define my love are totally different. I ACCEPT LOVE IN ITS WHOLE SPECTRUM, all the colors of it, the whole rainbow of it. They are choosers; they say, "Only the color blue is love, all other colors are not love." Or somebody says, "Only the color green is love, all others are not love." They condemn the earthly love, THEY CONDEMN SENSUOUS LOVE, they condemn the body. And that's where the difference is. TO ME, LOVE IS A LADDER: one part of the ladder is resting on the earth -- not only resting but really rooted in the earth -- and the other end is touching heaven. THEY TALK ONLY OF THE OTHER END. And because they talk only of the other end, it becomes humanly impossible to reach it -because the lower part is denied, and the higher can be reached only through the ladder. You will have to pass through lower rungs of the ladder -- otherwise how you are going to reach to the higher? There have been people like Charvaka in India, and Epicurus in Greece, who believe only in the lower part of the ladder and deny the higher part. I ACCEPT THE TOTALITY OF IT. I accept the mud, I accept the lotus, and I accept all that is in between. HENCE I AM BOUND TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD BY EVERYBODY. The spiritual people will misunderstand me, because they will think I am a materialist -that I don't believe in the soul, that my preaching of love is nothing but a preaching of sex, that in the name of love, I am only teaching people sexuality. And the materialists, the Epicureans, the Charvakas, they are also going to misunderstand me, obviously. They will say that my talk of sex and earthly love is only a trap to take you to those non-existential abstractions -ecstasy, samadhi, God. I AM GOING TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD BY THE MATERIALS AND THE SPIRITUALISTS BOTH. And the same is going to be the case with my sannyasins. You are going to be misunderstood everywhere -- in every culture, in every society, by every religion, by every ideology. TO BE WITH ME IS RISKY: YOU WILL HAVE TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD. You will have to accept it as a fact of your existence. And the reason is clear... because nobody in the past has accepted the whole spectrum. I accept the whole spectrum... because to me, the lower and the higher are not separate, they are one. THE LOWER CONTAINS THE HIGHER, AND THE HIGHER CONTAINS THE LOWER. The mud is unmanifest lotus, and the lotus is mud manifested. I don't condemn the mud -- because in condemning the mud the lotus is condemned. And I don't condemn the lotus -- because if you condemn the lotus, the mud loses all meaning; then it is simply mud and nothing else. I accept this earth and I accept this heaven. I accept both the body and the soul, the outer and the inner. MY TEACHING IS THAT OF TOTAL ACCEPTANCE. You will be misunderstood. And it is not only that you will be misunderstood -- THERE IS EVERY POSSIBILITY THAT YOU WILL MISUNDERSTAND ME TOO. Because many of you will think that sex is all. And you can find quotes from my books easily supporting your standpoint. AND MANY OF YOU WILL MISUNDERSTAND THAT SEX HAS TO BE TRANSCENDED... that only samadhi is the truth and that sex is just something to be bypassed, transcended and surpassed. Both these things are going to happen. Those who really understand me will see the point, and will see what I am doing here. I AM CREATING A MATERIALIST SPIRITUALITY, OR A SPIRITUALIST MATERIALISM. It has never been done before. And whenever something is done for the first time, it is natural that it will be misunderstood.... That possibility is there, you can misunderstand me. And there are also others at the other extreme. ANYBODY WHO WILL CHOOSE ONE PART OF MY TEACHING IS BOUND TO MISUNDERSTAND ME. YOU HAVE TO TAKE ME IN TOTO, IN MY TOTALITY. Of course the totality is very confusing... because it contains the polar opposites. It is easier to choose one part -- the materialist or the spiritualist; it is easier, you feel consistent. To choose me in my totality, you will have to live a very inconsistent life: one moment this, another moment that. But that is my whole message. If one really wants to live life in all its richness, ONE HAS TO LEARN HOW TO BE INCONSISTENT, HOW TO BE CONSISTENTLY INCONSISTENT, how to be able to move from one extreme to another -- sometimes rooted deep in the earth and sometimes flying high in heaven, sometimes making love and sometimes meditating.

And then, slowly slowly, your heaven and your earth will come closer and closer, AND YOU WILL BECOME THE HORIZON WHERE THEY MEET. OSHO The Book of Wisdom Ch #8: Krishnamurti's solo flute am in Buddha Hall