Does Good And Evil Exist?

Can good exist without evil? Can you have love without hate? Sadhguru addresses a seeker's question about whether these qualities are absolute.

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Thank you for clarifying that the opposite to love is attachment...as Rebecca stated I too am trying to declutter my living space and simplify my life. Less is more...more time to live and breathe!
Thank you for another light hearted, inspiring talk!
🙏🌅Namaste

Thank you for your inspiring words as always

I learned something here that I suspected was true which is that love and attachment are opposite because attachment leads to fear.

I have listened to and received deeper personal understanding and insight from Sadhguru for a long time. This is one of the few tracks that I am downloading. (I don't download many from any teacher anymore.) Not only did his wonderful (and highly amusing, yet completely accurate except for omitting the need for dusting) analogy of love to different types of flowers make total sense, but the discourse at the end of the talk regarding how we bring things into our lives to enhance life - they have no value in and of themselves - hit me over the head with insight.

I have been working on decluttering my home and life, but as I have previously been living with a sense of scarcity rather than abundance (one of my current areas of meditative practice to adjust), I have had difficulty letting go of things. You know, "just in case I need this later" thinking. This was passed down to me through generations, though the furthest back I recognize personally was my great-grandmother (Oma) who, with my great-grandfather (Opa) brought my grandmother to the USA when Grandma was six years old. With little money, and arriving in the USA towards the start of the Great Depression with a family to raise, Oma became a hoarder of sorts out of necessity.

My grandmother and her son, my father, have all had trouble letting go of things throughout their lives, and as eldest, I learned to always be prepared from various youth activities plus the examples I saw within my family. But times have changed. Now this no longers serves a purpose, and these things merely take up my time and energy to maintain - if that happens at all. They do not, as Sadhguru says, "enhance life." At the time they arrived, perhaps they did, but no longer.

Though this talk was more about love and if there is an opposite of love, I found that the connection of attachment (as the opposite of love) deeply resonant and this understanding will help me progress more effectively in my journey to declutter, to detach myself from physical possessions, to detach myself from family-rooted learned behaviors and attitudes that have permitted or even encouraged the acquisition of "stuff." Little of the "stuff" around me enhances my life at this point. It actually sucks life away with the effort and attention required to maintain it, and it causes friction within my own family. Less truly is more.

My deepest gratitude to Sadhguru for enabling me to recognize and understand that attachment truly is the other side of the coin as love. I see the light in you. 🤲🏻❤️🤲🏻

Love this! Thank you.