This will be our topic for coming meetup. So please take time to think abou this topic.
Below from Osho Times site
Our daughter go through a depressing divorce...


We
are a middle-aged couple watching our daughter go through a depressing
divorce. How can we help her and her little girl get through this with
less pain?
Below is Osho’s reply to a similar question:
To
fall in love is so easy. Why is it so difficult to fall out of love? So
many discussions, tears, fights, fears.... I don’t want to hurt the
person I’ve been with, because it’s not that there is no feeling. I’m
so confused. Can you say something?

Falling
is always easy. You can fall in any ditch. Getting out is difficult.
But you will have to get out. Once the love disappears the ditch
becomes hell. Then there is quarreling, argument, nagging, and every
kind of nastiness from both sides. Nobody wants to hurt; but because he
is hurting, she is hurting, unknowingly they go on dumping their hurt
feelings on the other.
In the first place, when you start falling in
love, when you are still not in the ditch, that is the time to ask me,
because I have a totally different kind of love affair which is called
rising in love. Then there is no problem. Rising in love is beautiful,
and getting out of it is very easy, because that will be falling down.
Falling down is easy, keep it for the next step; for the first step,
always use rising. The easier step you have done, now you have to do
the difficult one.
And it will happen -- all these tears and conflicts, but nothing can bring the love back.
A
simple thing has to be understood: love -- the love that you are
talking about -- is not in your hands. You have fallen into it. It was
not in your power not to fall, so when it comes, it takes you with it.
But it is like a breeze, it comes and goes. And it is good that it
comes and goes, because if it stays it becomes stale.
A little
understanding is needed on both sides, that the love is no longer
there. There is no need to hate each other, because nobody has
destroyed it -- nobody has created it. It had come like a breeze, you
enjoyed those moments; be thankful to each other and help each other to
come out of the ditch. In a ditch, that is the only way. The man, to be
really manly, should give his shoulders for the woman to rise up and
get out of the ditch. And the man can find his own gymnastics, how to
do it.
But nobody asks me before falling. This is strange! For
thirty-five years I have been waiting for somebody to ask me how to
fall in love. Nobody asks that, because if you had asked that I would
have suggested, "Never fall in love. Try to rise." And rising in love
is a totally different matter.
Rising in love means a learning, a
changing, a maturity. Rising in love ultimately helps you to become
grown-up. And two grown-up persons don’t quarrel; they try to
understand, they try to solve any problem.
Anybody who rises in love
never falls from it, because rising is your effort, and the love that
is grown through your effort is within your hands. But falling in love
is not your effort.
Falling in love -- that love is going to be
disrupted somewhere, and the sooner it is understood that it is gone,
the better; otherwise you become too entangled in a thousand and one
things. Those are the things which make it difficult to separate.
When
you fall in love, no questions arise. You are clean, the other person
is clean. But when you want to separate, the days, the nights, the
years that you have lived together, loved together, experienced
something which is one of the most beautiful gifts of nature -- you go
on becoming entangled.
You go on giving promises to each other...
and it is not that you are lying or deceiving; in those beautiful
moments those promises seem to be absolutely coming from your heart.
But when those moments are gone -- and they will be gone, because it
has been a fall, and nobody can remain in a fallen state for eternity.
Someday he has to rise again. And the moment you start separating, all
those entanglements, your promises, the other’s promises, create the
complexity.
Rising in love is something spiritual.
Falling in love is something biological.
Biology
is blind, that’s why love is called blind. But the love I am talking
about is the only insight that is easily available to everyone. Just a
little effort....
Love should come out of your silence, awareness,
meditativeness. It is soft, it is unbinding -- because how can love
create fetters for the one who is loved? It is giving freedom to each
other, more and more. As the love grows deeper, freedom becomes bigger.
As the love grows deeper, you start accepting the person as he is. You
stop trying to change the person.
It is one of the miseries of the
world that lovers are continuously trying to change the other person.
They don’t know that if the person really changes, their love will
disappear, because they had not fallen in love with this changed person
in the first place. They had fallen in love with a person who was not
touched by their ideas -- "Change this and that."
Rising in love, you become aware that the other has his own territorial imperative, and you are not to encroach upon it.
If
love becomes freedom, then there is no need to separate. The idea of
separation arises because you go on seeing that you are becoming more
and more a slave, and nobody likes slavery.
But you always ask me
when you are in the ditch and cannot get out. One thing is certain: I
am not coming into the ditch to take you out! You two have to manage
it. If I come in the ditch to help you out, you both will be out and I
will be in the ditch! And I don’t know anybody whom I can ask, "How to
get out of here?"
I have never asked a single question of anybody
about my life. It is my life, and I have to live it, I have to solve
its problems. I have never taken any advice, I have never accepted
anybody’s advice which was not asked for in the first place. I have
told those people, "You have to understand that advice is the only
thing everybody gives free of charge and nobody takes."
Why bother? Advice given by a person whom you have not asked cannot be very wise.
The wise man never imposes his idea on anyone.
If somebody asks him, he simply gives his insight.
It is not a commandment, that they have to do it; there is no "should" in it.
I
can say only one thing: you have given each other beautiful moments --
be grateful, be thankful. The parting should not be ugly when the
meeting was so beautiful.
You owe it to existence that the parting
should be made beautiful. Forget all your promises -- they were right
when they were given, but the time has changed, you have changed. You
both are standing at a crossroads, ready to move in different
directions; perhaps you may never meet again. Make it as graceful as
possible. And once you understand that it has to happen, gracefully or
ungracefully, then it is better to make it graceful.
At least, your
lover will live in your memory, you will live in the memory of the
lover. In a certain way, those moments together will always enrich you.
But part gracefully.
And it is not difficult when you have
understood love -- which is a very difficult phenomenon. You fell
without a second thought; you can understand that very easily love has
disappeared. Accept the truth of it, and don’t blame each other,
because nobody is responsible.
Help each other gracefully; in deep
friendship, part. Lovers when they separate become enemies. That is a
strange kind of gratitude. They should become really friends. And if
love can become friendship, there is no guilt, no grudge, no feeling
that you have been cheated, exploited. Nobody has exploited anybody; it
was just the biological energy which made you blind.
I teach a different kind of love.
It does not end in friendship but begins in friendship.
It begins in silence, in awareness. It is a love which is your own creation, which is not blind.
Such a love can last forever, can go on growing deeper and deeper.
Such
a love is immensely sensitive. In this kind of relationship one starts
feeling the need of the other person even before the other person has
spoken.
I have known a few couples, very few couples -- my
acquaintance with couples is big, but I have come across only two,
three couples who had not fallen in love, who have risen in love. And
the most miraculous thing about them was that they started feeling each
other without words.
If the man was feeling thirsty, the woman would
bring water. Nothing has been said just a synchronicity. If the loved
one is feeling thirsty, she must start feeling thirsty herself. A
transfer is happening continuously, words are not needed. Energies can
relate directly without language.
Such a love needs nothing from the other.
It is grateful that the other receives something when he offers, or she offers.
It never feels in any kind of bondage, because there is none.
In
such love, sex may happen sometimes, may not happen for months, and
finally will disappear completely. In this context, sex is no longer
sexual, but only a way of being together, going as deeply as possible
into each other, an effort to reach the depths of the other. It has
nothing to do with biological reproduction.
And once they start
understanding that whatsoever they do.... In sex only their bodies can
meet, then sex slowly disappears. Then a different kind of meeting
starts happening which is just a meeting of energies. Holding hands,
sitting together looking at the stars, it is more than any sexual
orgasm can give -- two energies melting.
Sexual orgasm is physical,
is bound to be the lowest kind. Orgasm which is not physical has
tremendous beauty, and leads finally to self-realization. And if love
cannot give you enlightenment, don’t call it love. Love is such a
beautiful word. When you say, "Falling in love," you are using the word
in an ugly way. Say "falling in sex"; be true. In love one always
rises, never falls. But first you have to come out of the ditch. Help
each other.
Biology is not going to help. Just be human to each
other, and understand the point that the love that was blinding you is
no longer there. Your eyes are open. Don’t try to deceive the other
that you still love, you still feel, but what to do? This kind of
hypocrisy is not good. Simply say, "The feeling is no longer there. I
am sad and sorry about it, I would have loved the feeling to be there,
but it is not there. And I know it is not there in you either."
Once
it is understood that the feeling is gone, now at least, just as human
beings, help each other to get out of the ditch. If you help, there is
no problem. But instead of helping, each wants to get it finished but
doesn’t allow the other to get out of the ditch. They go on pulling
each other down.
Understand. The reason is fear; the old love is
gone, the new has not yet arrived. It cannot arrive in your ditch, you
will have to come out first. So the fear is of the unknown.
The past
was so beautiful you would like to repeat it, so you try to force it,
the other tries to force it. But these things are not within your power
to force. A forced love is not love.
If you have to kiss somebody at
the point of a sword -- "Kiss!" -- what kind of a kiss will that be?
Looking at the sword, you may kiss, but it will not be a kiss at all.
Any
love enforced for any reasons, is not love. And you both know what love
is, because you had been in those moments; so you can compare easily
that it is not the same thing. Help each other to come out -- and it is
very easy if you help each other -- and part in grace.
Next time try not to fall, but try to rise.
Don’t let biology dominate you.
Your consciousness should be the master.