MEDITATION
THE SECRET OF SECRET VOL1
To be One Again
MEDITATION
THE SECRET OF SECRET VOL1
To be One Again
IN
THE BODY IS THE ANIMA. THE ANIMA IS FEMININE (YIN), IT IS THE SUBSTANCE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS.
THE ANIMUS LIVES IN THE EYES: IT SEES, IT DREAMS. BUT WHOEVER IS IN A DARK AND WITHDRAWN MOOD, AND CHAINED TO HIS BODILY FORM, IS FETTERED BY THE ANIMA.
THEREFORE THE CONCENTRATION ON THE ANIMUS IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE CIRCULATION OF THE LIGHT (EE INITIATION TWO) , AND IN THIS WAY THE SPIRIT IS MAINTAINED, THE ANIMA SUBJUGATED.
THE METHOD USED BY THE ANCIENTS FOR ESCAPING FROM THE WORLD CONSISTED IN MELTING OUT COMPLETELY THE SLAG OF DARKNESS (ENERGY PAIN BLOCKAGES) IN ORDER TO RETURN TO THE PURELY CREATIVE (PURE POSITIVE KUNDALINI SPIRITUAL ENERGY IS CREATED IN EE INITIATION THREE BY TAOIST AND HERMETIC ALCHEMICAL TRANSMUTATION) .
THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PURIFICATION OF THE ANIMA AND A CONNECTION WITH THE ANIMUS.
AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE LIGHT ((ENERGY ENHANCEMENT INITIATION TWO) IS THE MAGICAL MEANS OF REDUCING THE DARK ENERGY BLOCKAGES, AND GAINING MASTERY OVER CONNECTION TO THE ANIMA.
IF THIS (ENERGY
ENHANCEMENT INITIATION TWO) METHOD IS FOLLOWED, PLENTY OF SEED-WATER WILL BE PRESENT OF ITSELF;
THE SPIRIT-FIRE WILL BE IGNITED, AND THE THOUGHT-EARTH WILL SOLIDIFY AND
CRYSTALLIZE . AND THUS THE HOLY FRUIT OF SOUL FUSION MATURES.
THE ONE NATURE (THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT
OR THE SOUL), WHEN IT DESCENDS INTO THE
HOUSE OF THE CREATIVE (YOU),
DIVIDES
INTO ANIMUS AND ANIMA.
THE ANIMUS IS FROM THE HIGHEST HEAVENLY HEART (PRAJNA PARAMITA). IT IS OF THE NATURE OF LIGHT; IT IS THE POWER OF LIGHTNESS AND PURITY.
IT IS THAT WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE GREAT EMPTINESS (ANATTA, NIRVANA, NOTHING! THE UNIVERSAL SPIRIT), THAT WHICH IS IDENTICAL IN FORM WITH THE PRIMORDIAL BEGINNING.
THE ANIMA OR BODY PARTAKES OF THE NATURE OF THE DARK. IT IS THE ENERGY OF THE HEAVY AND THE TURBID; IT IS BOUND TO THE BODILY FLESHLY HEART.
THE ANIMUS OR THE ENERGY OF HEAVEN LOVES LIFE.
THE ANIMA OR BODY SEEKS DEATH. ALL SENSUOUS DESIRES AND IMPULSES OF ANGER ARE EFFECTS OF THE ANIMA.
BUT THE PUPIL UNDERSTANDS HOW TO DISTIL THE DARK ANIMA IN THE BODY COMPLETELY (USING ENERGY ENHANCEMENT INITIATION TWO) SO THAT IT TRANSFORMS ITSELF INTO PURE LIGHT (PURE POSITIVE KUNDALINI SPIRITUAL ENERGY IS CREATED IN ENERGY ENHANCEMENT INITIATION THREE BY TAOIST AND HERMETIC ALCHEMICAL TRANSMUTATION).
ONCE THE EMPRESS WU asked the Master Fa Tsang if he could possibly give her
a practical and simple demonstration of the principle of cosmic
interrelatedness, of the relationship of the One and many, of God and his
creatures, and of the creatures one to another.
Fa Tsang went to work and appointed one of the palace rooms so that eight
large mirrors stood at the eight points of the compass. Then he placed two
more mirrors, one on the ceiling and one on the floor. A candle was
suspended from the ceiling in the centre of the room.
When the Empress entered, Fa Tsang lit the candle. The Empress cried, 'How
marvelous! How beautiful!'
Fa Tsang pointed at the reflection of the flame in each one of the ten
mirrors and said, 'See Your Majesty, this demonstrates the relationship of
the One and the many, of God to each one of his creatures.'
The Empress said, 'Yes, indeed, Master. And what is the relationship of
each creature to the others?'
Fa Tsang answered, 'Just watch, Your Majesty, how each mirror not only
reflects the one flame in the centre, each mirror also reflects the
reflections of the flame in all the other mirrors, until an infinite number
of flames fills them all. All these reflections are mutually identical; in a
sense they are interchangeable, in another sense each one exists
individually. This shows the true relationship of each being to its
neighbour, to all that is. Of course, I must point out, Your Majesty,' Fa
Tsang went on, 'that this is only a rough, approximate, and static parable
of the real state of affairs in the universe. For the universe is limitless
and in it all is in perpetual multi-dimensional motion.' Then the Master
covered one of the infinite number of reflections of the flame and showed
how each apparently insignificant interference affects the whole organism of
our world.
Kegon expresses this relationship by the formula:
One In All
All In One
One In One
All In All
Then Fa Tsang, in order to conclude his command performance, held up a
small crystal ball and said, 'Now watch, Your Majesty, how all these large
mirrors and all the myriad forms they reflect are mirrored in this little
sphere. See, how in the ultimate reality the infinitely small contains the
infinitely large, and the infinitely large the infinitely small, without
obstruction! Oh, if only I could demonstrate to you the unimpeded mutual
interpenetration of time and eternity, of past, present and future. But
alas, this is a dynamic process that must be grasped on a different
level...'
Man is not an island; nothing is. All is interrelated, all is
interdependent. Independence -- the very word -- is false, so is dependence.
The reality is interdependence.
Everything is so deeply connected with everything else that nothing can
exist apart. If you can understand a small rose flower in its totality, root
and all, you will have understood the whole cosmos, because the whole cosmos
is involved in that small rose flower. In the smallest leaf of grass all is
contained.
But remember, as Fa Tsang said to the Empress: All illustrations, all
descriptions are static, and existence is a dynamic flux. It is a river.
Each thing goes on moving into each other thing. It is impossible to draw
lines where one thing ends and another begins; there are no demarcating
lines -- there cannot be. So all distinctions are only for practical
purposes, they have no existential value.
This is the first thing to be understood. This is very fundamental to the
Taoist alchemy. Once this is understood, then the whole alchemy of Taoism
becomes comprehensible. Then the lower can be transformed into the higher,
because the lower contains the higher already. The baser metal can be
transformed into gold because nothing is separate -- the baser contains the
gold already. As above, so below; as below, so above.
The very idea that all is interconnected makes transformation possible. If
things are not interconnected then there is no possibility of any
transformation. If the world consists of the philosopher Liebnitz's monads
-- windowless, separate, atomic individuals, not connecting with each other
at all because they are windowless -- then there is no possibility of any
transformation.
Transformation is conceivable only because you are me, I am you; we
interpenetrate. Can you think of yourself as separate even for a single
moment? You cannot even imagine yourself as separate. The flower cannot be
separated from the tree; the moment it is separated it dies. The tree cannot
be separated from the earth. The earth cannot be separated from the sun. The
sun cannot be separated from other stars, and so on and so forth. You
separate the leaf, and the leaf dies. You separate the flower, the flower
dies. You separate the tree from the earth, the tree dies. You separate the
earth from the sun, and the earth dies.
Death means separation. Life means no separation. Hence the ego is bound to
die because that is your idea of separation. To think of one's self in terms
of ego is the only cause of death -- because the ego is already dead. You
can go on flogging the dead horse, but for how long? It is going to die; it
is already dead, that's why it is going to die. That which is alive in you
cannot die; life is eternal. But life is not yours, you cannot possess it.
Life belongs to all. Life has a vastness, infinity. Death is tiny, death is
individual; life is universal. So when you live, you are part of the
universe, and when you die you die only because you think you are separate.
The more you feel part of the whole, the more life you will have.
Jesus says, 'Come to me and I will give you life abundant.' What is the
secret of life abundant? The secret is: die as the ego, disappear as a
separate entity, and the whole universe and all that it contains is yours.
Stop possessing, and all is yours. Possess, and you are tiny and limited,
and you are going to die. The secret of becoming more alive consists of a
single phenomenon of dropping the idea of separation. And whenever it
happens, you feel life becoming aflame in you.
Even if it happens in small measures... If you fall in love with somebody,
life is aflame in you. And it is not that much has happened, just two
persons are feeling one. Learn the lesson from love. Just two persons
feeling one, and what joy, and what ecstasy! Think. If you fall in love with
the whole then how much ecstasy and how much joy is going to happen! That is
life abundant, life infinite.
Separate yourself... There are a few people who live so egoistically that
they cannot love; they are the most miserable people in the world. My
definition of hell is; to live in separation is hell. To live in
non-separation is heaven. To disappear completely, utterly into the whole,
is MOKSHA, NIRVANA. It is ultimate freedom.
The second thing to be understood: that life is polar. That is also very
fundamental to the Taoist approach. But the polarity is not that of
opposition. The polarity means that the opposites are complementary to each
other, they support each other. Life cannot exist without death, hence death
is not the enemy. How can death be the enemy of life if life cannot exist
without it? It has to be the friend. It prepares the ground for life: it
helps life, it provokes life, it challenges life.
Just think. If your body were going to live for eternity, you would not
live at all, you would have an infinity to postpone everything. 'Why love
today if there is tomorrow? And if tomorrow is infinite, then why bother?
Why dance today? We will see tomorrow.' Just imagine. If your bodily life
were going to be eternal, your postponement would become eternal.
You cannot postpone because you are not certain whether there is going to
be any tomorrow or not. Nobody knows whether the next breath will come in or
not, hence only foolish people postpone. The wise man lives, and the wise
man lives herenow. He cannot afford postponement because he knows 'Only this
moment is mine, only this very moment is mine. The next moment may be, may
not be. How can I postpone? How can I say "tomorrow"?'
The foolish man postpones until tomorrow, the wise man lives now. The wise
man knows no other time than now and no other space than here, and the
foolish man goes into things which could have been postponed for eternity --
he lives them right now. If he is angry, he lives it right now. If he is
loving, he says, 'We will see tomorrow.' All that is stupid he goes on
living, and all that is luminous he goes on postponing. The wise man also
postpones, but he only postpones stupid things.
Gurdjieff used to say to his disciples, 'When my grandfather died I was
only nine years old. He called me close to his death-bed and whispered in my
ear.' He had tremendous love for this small boy. He must have seen the
potential of the boy. He whispered in the ears of the boy, 'I have nothing
to give to you except a simple piece of advice, and I don't know whether you
will be able to understand it right now or not. But remember it! Some day
you may become capable enough, mature enough to understand it. Just remember
it. And it is simple advice. If you want to do anything wrong, postpone it
for twenty-four hours. And if you want to do something right, never postpone
it even for a single moment. If you want to be angry, violent, aggressive,
postpone it for twenty-four hours. If you want to be loving, sharing, do not
postpone it even for a single moment. Just live it right now, immediately!'
And Gurdjieff used to say to his disciples, 'That simple advice transformed
my whole life.' How can you be angry if you can postpone it for twenty-four
hours? It is impossible. To be so calm and quiet as to postpone it for
twenty-four hours is enough guarantee that you are not going to be angry.
And who can be angry if he can postpone it for twenty-four hours?
Twenty-four hours of contemplation, and the whole absurdity will be plain to
you: the whole thing will look ridiculous.
And Gurdjieff was really transformed by this simple message. Sometimes very
simple messages can transform you, but you have to live them.
Life exists because there is death. Death gives intensity to life. Death
challenges life, it provokes you to live, and to live to the maximum, at the
optimum, because -- who knows -- there may be no tomorrow. Death is always
provoking you, goading you to live, and to live totally. Then death is not
against life but a friend.
So is the case with all the polarities: the negative and the positive, love
and hate, beauty and ugliness, day and night, summer and winter. And so is
the case with man and woman. Man cannot be without the woman, and the woman
cannot be without the man. They are part of one dialectical process. Between
these two poles there is both attraction and repulsion, because attraction
and repulsion cannot be separated. Hence you feel attracted towards the
woman or towards the man and repulsed at the same time. A part of you wants
to be with the woman, a part of you wants to be alone.
You are always hesitating. If you are with the woman or with the man, you
start longing for the freedom to be on your own, to be alone. Suddenly you
become very interested in being alone and free, and you don't know where
this desire to be free is coming from. The woman or the man, the other, is
provoking it. The moment you have left the other, this desire, this longing,
this great longing to be alone will disappear. And then you are surprised,
really surprised. When you are alone you simply feel lonely. You don't feel
that joy that you had contemplated, you don't see any freedom; you simply
see loneliness surrounding you. And your whole existence becomes cold,
frozen, dark. Again the desire arises to be with the other. Now you hanker
for love, for togetherness.
This is the problem between man and woman. They are attracted and repulsed
together, simultaneously. They want to come to be together and they want to
be separate and alone, on their own. Hence the constant conflict between man
and woman.
Marriage is a love-hate affair, an attraction-repulsion affair. If the
marriage lasts long, it can only last if there are mini-divorces happening
every day -- only then can it last long. If the man and the woman have
decided not to fight, then it is a plastic marriage. They will be together,
they will manage to be together, but they will never be together in reality;
they will never know those moments of unity. They are only pretending. They
are being polite, but not true, not authentic.
Marriage is a kind of intimate enmity. It is an intimate enmity, it is a
friendly fight, it is a war. Yes, between two wars there are peaceful
moments too, and they are beautiful because of the two wars.
Couples go on fighting -- that's how they keep alive the flame of love.
Once they fight, they go away from each other. When they are far away from
each other, in their psychologies, they start hankering for the other, they
start missing the other. Then they start seeking and groping for the other.
Then they come close, and very close, because they have tasted something of
loneliness. Now they want to be very close. Once they have tasted of
closeness they want to be separate again.
So don't be worried about it. It is a fundamental phenomenon. You cannot
escape it. The only way to escape is to have a pretend marriage, which is
not a true marriage. 'Remain polite to each other.' It is a kind of
contract, that 'I need you and you need me,' that 'I will scratch your back
and you scratch my back' -- that's all -- 'because I need you and you need
me. You are my security, I will be your security.' It is a legal contract
but not marriage.
This is the second fundamental to be understood before you can enter into
the sutras.
And the third and the most important thing: the third fundamental is that
no man is only man and no woman is only woman. Man is both, woman is both;
both are both. Man contains a woman within him, and so is the case with a
woman: the woman contains a man within her. So it is not only a question of
the outside man or outside woman, it is also an inner phenomenon, because
the outer and the inner correspond. Just as I said 'as below, so above', I
can say 'as outer, so inner'.
Your inner reality is also the same as your outer reality: they correspond,
they balance. Now more complexity arises because each man has a woman within
him, and he has to come to terms with her. It is not just a question of
having a woman outside that you love; otherwise things would have been less
complicated.
Whenever two persons are in love, there are really four persons -- in each
bed there are four persons. Complexity you can understand. Whenever two
persons make love, there are four persons making love. It is always group
sex, because the man has a woman inside him, and the woman has a man inside
her. And it is bound to be so because each is born out of the marriage of a
man and a woman. Something of the father will be in you -- fifty percent;
something of the mother will be in you -- fifty percent. To each person the
father contributes and the mother contributes. You may be biologically a man
-- that simply shows that physically you have the mechanism of the man --
but deep in your psyche you are neither man nor woman, you are both. That's
why I say if we have to use one word for both man and woman...
Up to now we have been using 'man' -- that means it contains both. It is
only because man has been very dominant in the past. But in the future the
pendulum may swing to the other pole, and that will be far more true,
because the word 'man' does not contain woman, the word 'woman' contains
man. It will be better to use 'woman' as a general word for both.
And so is the case with 'he' and 'she'. 'She' contains 'he', but 'he' does
not contain 'she'. It will be better to use 'she' for both, 'woman' for
both. It.will be better to use 'she' for God than 'he'. But both contain
each other. Because of this there is a possibility of homosexuality --
because of this fundamental duality inside. You may be a man on the outside,
and you may become attuned to your inner woman inside. There is no problem
in it. Your spirit remains free. Inside it can either become identified with
the inner man or it can become identified with the inner woman.
If you are physically a man and you become identified with the woman
inside, homosexuality will be the consequence. It can happen in many ways,
it can happen for many reasons. So homosexuality is possible because of this
inner duality.
And now science is even capable of changing your physical sex. That too is
possible, because the Taoist finding has been found to be scientifically
true, too. Now just by changing the hormones and your chemistry a little
bit, the man can become a woman and the woman can become a man -- even
physiologically. That simply shows that you are both. Even the difference in
the body is only of emphasis.
And sometimes it happens of its own accord too. It has been found that a
woman becomes a man or a man becomes a woman. The difference must not have
been much -- may have been very very slight: fifty-one percent man,
forty-nine percent woman; the balance is just a little more on the side of
being a man. It can change in the course of life -- new hormones, new food,
new climate, new atmosphere, new emotions, illnesses, or anything, can
change the balance and the man can become a woman or the woman can become a
man. And now science knows that it can be done very easily.
There is every possibility that in future people will change their sex more
often, because if you can live both the polarities in one life, then why
not? If you can enjoy both visions, then why not? You will have more
freedom. You have lived as a man for thirty-five years, and enough is
enough. And you would like to see how it is from the other side, because
there is no other way to know how it is from the other side than to be on
that side.
My own observation of thousands of people has been this: that if a person
is a man in this life, in the next life he is born as a woman, and vice
versa. And the reason is simple: he becomes tired of being a man, or becomes
tired of being a woman, and starts hankering deep down for the other pole.
And, naturally, in the next life, because of this great desire to be the
other, he is born as the other.
These are the three fundamentals. First: everything is interdependent.
Second: life is polar and the polarities are not opposites but
complementaries. And third: that each is double inside, no one is single.
In India we have the concept of ARDHANARISHWAR. That corresponds to the
Taoist approach. Shiva has been sculpted, painted as both -- half man, half
woman. Half of his body is that of a man and half of his body is that of a
woman. When for the first time those statues were discovered by the West,
the West laughed -- it looked so absurd. What is the point of it? Now they
have understood what the point of it is. It is one of the most fundamental
things of life.
So are you, just like Shiva, half-half.
These sutras are concerned with this inner polarity, and unless you
transcend this inner polarity you will not attain to the One, you will
remain two. Meditation is a way to transcend this polarity within you.
Meditation takes you away from all dualisms.
In ordinary life you remain dual. And in the space of twenty-four hours you
change many times from one pole to the other. Watch. You may be a man, but
sometimes you are very feminine, very vulnerable. You may be a woman, but
sometimes in the daytime you are very masculine. When the woman is masculine
she becomes very very aggressive -- more aggressive than any man can ever
be, because her aggressiveness is very fresh, unused, just like unused land
is very fertile. And so is the case with man. If a man is tender, he is very
tender -- more than the woman, because that is unused soil, that part of his
being has not been used; it is fresh, very alive. So this strange phenomenon
is observed again and again if you become a little watchful.
Woman is generally loving; man is not generally loving. Woman is only
sometimes quarrelsome, but when she is, then she really is. Man is only
sometimes loving, but when he is he really is. Those are the unused parts of
their being. When they are used they have a freshness.
This inner polarity keeps you in a kind of anguish, conflict; without it
you cannot exist. The One remains invisible -- that's why God is invisible.
To become visible the One has to become two. You have to write with white
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To exist, one needs contrast. That is why in the daytime you cannot see
stars, in the nighttime you can see -- the darkness of the night becomes the
background. The stars are there as much as in the night -- they don't go
anywhere, they can't go anywhere; they are where they are. They don't start
coming in the night, they don't start hiding somewhere in the day. They are
where they are, but in the day the contrast is missing. You cannot see them,
they are invisible.
God is invisible. If he wants to become man and woman, he will have to
become two, he will have to become matter and spirit, he will have to become
body and soul, he will have to become this and that. Only the two are
visible. The world consists of the 'two'. The world is dual. And the moment
you can manage to make this duality disappear in oneness, you will become
invisible. It has great significance, but it is a metaphor. It does not mean
that you cannot see Lao Tzu or you cannot see me. You are seeing me already,
but still you are not seeing me. That part has become invisible. The
polarity has disappeared inside, the duality is no more there. Only the dual
can be seen, the non-dual becomes unseen.
God has to become two, only then the game, the play, is possible. Ancient
Indian scriptures say he felt very lonely. 'He' means God. He felt very
lonely. He longed for the other, that's why he became two. He became man and
woman, cow and bull, and so on and so forth. The whole existence is sexual.
By 'sexual' I mean dual. The whole existence is sexual. Sooner or later
science is going to discover that there are planets which are male and there
are planets which are female. It has to be so. Ancient astrology says so,
and I perfectly agree with it -- everything is dual. That's why the sun is
represented as being male and the moon as being female. It is not poetry, it
is fact. Science may not yet have discovered it, but it has to be so. If
everything is dual, then there cannot be any exceptions.
Your attraction for the woman or for the man keeps you in manifestation.
Now you will be able to understand why the great mystics down the ages have
been teaching you how to go beyond sex -- because unless you go beyond sex,
you will not go into God. Unless you go beyond sex, you will never go beyond
the two, you will remain tethered to the duality of the world. The 'world'
means God manifest, and 'God' means the world disappearing into
unmanifestation again. That too is a duality: manifestation,
non-manifestation.
In Christian theology things are not so deep, they are very superficial. In
Christian theology you have only creation. What about de-creation? How can
there be creation without de-creation? In the Eastern theology they are both
together: SRUSHTI means creation; PRALAYA means de-creation. There is a
moment when God becomes manifest, and then there is a moment when God
becomes unmanifest again -- all disappears into nothingness, zero follows,
just like you, as I told you in the beginning.
You are with your beloved, you become tired, you want to meditate, you want
to go to the Himalayas. God also becomes tired of the world -- naturally so.
Then he wants to go into retirement. Then he disappears into oneness.
Dissolution follows. All disappears. But again, how long can you sit in a
Himalayan cave? Even God becomes tired of it. He starts seeking and
searching and creating the other again.
And exactly so it happens in each individual soul. You live life, then you
become tired, then you want to go beyond life. You have lived your body, and
you are tired. Now you want to go beyond the body. And then you can
understand my insistence, why I say don't be afraid of the world and don't
escape from the world, because the world is the very place where
renunciation happens. It is one of the poles. That's why I don't say escape
from the woman or the man. If you escape you may remain interested. Don't
escape. Live it through and through. Indulge in the world, and the very
indulgence will become renunciation. Out of that very indulgence you will
start feeling that now it is time to disappear into absolute aloneness. And
if you are really tired, only then can you go into that absolute aloneness.
People are bound to misunderstand me.
In India I am one of the most misunderstood men. They think I am teaching
people indulgence. I am teaching renunciation. They think I am teaching a
worldly kind of sannyas. They don't understand. I am teaching REAL sannyas,
because real sannyas arises only out of worldly experience. Real sannyas is
not possible in a cave in the Himalayas. It will be unreal, imposed, and
deep down you will remain worldly and you will continue to hanker and dream
of the world.
Live in the world. Really live in it so you get tired, wearied, finished
with it -- so much so that one day suddenly it loses all meaning for you,
and the renunciation has happened.
To me, the real renunciation happens in the market-place and ONLY in the
market-place.
Now the sutras.
IN THE BODY IS THE ANIMA. THE ANIMA IS FEMININE (YIN), IT IS THE SUBSTANCE
OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
In each being there is anima. 'Anima' means the feminine principle, the
passive principle, the inactive principle, the woman, yin... IT IS THE
SUBSTANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. It is not consciousness itself but the
substance. Without it consciousness cannot exist. It is the very matter, it
is the house in which consciousness lives. Without it consciousness cannot
live. The woman... and remember by 'woman' I don't mean just woman, I mean
the woman principle. And you have to remember that continuously, otherwise
you will start feeling that these Taoist people seem to be against woman.
They are not. They are not saying anything against or for, they are simply
describing. And they are not saying anything for man or for woman, they are
talking about the principles of womanhood and manhood.
IN THE BODY IS THE ANIMA. THE ANIMA IS FEMININE... IT IS THE SUBSTANCE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS.
That's why women remain too much attached to their bodies -- because of the
feminine principle. Man is not so attached to his body, he is really
careless about the body. If there is no woman around, the man becomes dirty,
dusty. The room becomes unclean, as if he is not aware of all this. You can
see whenever you enter a room whether the man lives alone or if there is a
woman in the house. It is so simple. You can see whether the man is a
bachelor or not just by seeing his room. The books have collected dust for
months. He is not careful about the body, the material part of himself. But
the woman is very careful, immensely careful, hence she stands so long
before the mirror.
One day Mulla Nasrudin was catching flies. He caught a few, and he told his
wife, 'I have found two female flies and two male flies.'
The woman said, 'This is surprising. How could you discover the sex of the
flies?'
He said, 'Two were sitting on the mirror and two were reading the
newspaper!'
It is very simple. The woman is immensely tethered to the body, to the
substance, to the house. If man had been left alone, at the most there would
have been tents but not houses. It is woman who has created the whole
civilization, because without houses there would be no civilization,
remember. Without houses there would be no cities, and civilization grows in
cities. The very word 'civilization' comes from 'citizens', the people who
live in the cities. Woman has created the whole civilization. Man would have
remained a vagabond, a wanderer, a traveller, a hunter. He would have
continued to rush from one place to another. You can see it in many ways.
There are many manifestations of it.
The West is more male-oriented, hence you see so many Western tourists
moving around the world. You don't see so many Eastern tourists. The East is
very feminine.
The woman remains attached to property: the house, the car, the land, her
ornaments, her clothes. This is because of the principle inside. She is the
substance of consciousness. And remember, without a woman the spirit cannot
soar high. Great poetry is born through man, but the cause is always the
woman.
You don't come across great women poets. I have looked into the poetry that
women write. They try hard, but nothing much happens. Madhuri writes great
poetry, but it is not really poetry, Woman cannot write poetry; she can
inspire poetry, that is true, and no great poetry arrives in the world
without a woman somewhere in the background. She inspires: her presence, her
love, her caring creates it. She need not write it, the man will write it.
But she is the inspiration, the cause, a very subtle cause. No women are
great painters; not that they don't paint -- particularly in the modern age
they do everything that man has always been doing...
There is a great competition. They think they have to do all the things
that man has been doing. They think it is because of these things that man
has become important. The logic is fallacious. They will only become
imitation men, they will lose their own soul, and they will always remain
second-hand. In the world of men, to compete with men, they will remain
secondary. They will never be primary.
That is not the way to compete. If you become like a man, you will never be
as competent as a man -- how can you be? his male principle is behind him.
You will become ugly, you will become rough, you will lose all softness.
That's why the Lib. movement has been one of the most disastrous things that
has happened to women. And the reason is not that their ideology is wrong,
its implementation is wrong.
Woman is equal to man, but she is not the SAME as man, and she should not
be. She should follow her own nature, she should listen to her own soul. She
has a different vibe, she has a different function to fulfil in the world, a
different destiny. If she follows man and imitates, she is lost. And the
more she is lost, the more she will become uprooted from her being. The more
she becomes false, plastic, synthetic, the more desperate she will be.
That's why the Lib. women are very angry, constantly in a rage. The rage is
that they are feeling frustrated. They are not as they want to be, they
cannot be -- it is against nature; there is no need either.
IN THE BODY IS THE ANIMA. THE ANIMA IS FEMININE, the yin principle, IT IS
THE SUBSTANCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Meditate over the words 'substance of consciousness': the very foundation
of consciousness. It is not consciousness itself but the house where
consciousness lives.
BUT, BESIDES THIS, THERE IS THE ANIMUS IN WHICH THE SPIRIT SHELTERS.
Animus is the male principle, yang.
THE ANIMUS LIVES IN THE EYES: IT SEES, IT DREAMS.
The feminine principle lives in the body, it is very material. That's why
women are always materialistic. Their considerations are very practical,
they are very pragmatic.
Mulla Nasrudin was saying to me one day that he never quarrels with his
wife.
I asked him, 'How do you manage it? It is almost impossible, or next to
impossible.'
He said, 'We have managed it perfectly well for many years. On the first
night we decided a single principle, and we have followed it. And the
principle is: she decides about small things and I decide about big things.'
I asked, 'What do you mean by small things and big things?' He said, 'For
example, what car to purchase, what house to live in, what school the
children have to be sent to, what food has to be eaten, what clothes have to
be purchased -- all these small things she decides.'
And I said, 'What do you decide?'
He said, 'Whether God exists or not, whether there is a hell and heaven or
not. All the great problems -- that is for me. And the principle has worked
out perfectly well. She never interferes in the great things, I never
interfere in the small things. I am master of my own world, she is master of
her own world. We never overlap.'
The feminine principle is rooted in matter, rooted in the body. But man
dreams.
Man is a dreamer. The male principle is the principle of dreaming. No woman
can understand why people are so interested in going to the moon. It looks
so foolish. For what? What are you going to get there -- some shopping?
Better to go to MG Road than go to the moon. What will you be doing there?
For what? And risking your life? No woman can understand why man wants to
climb Everest. What are you going to get there? It looks so ridiculous. And
all women deep inside know that all men are childish. 'Let them play, let
them go and do their things.' She knows perfectly well that they are
interested in foolish things: the football match, cricket -- all nonsense,
it makes no sense. You throw the ball on that side and they throw the ball
to your side, and this goes on and on. What is the point of it?
The woman is practical, down-to-earth. She is earthly. The male principle
is like the sky, and the female principle is like the earth. Man dreams,
plans, desires, longs for unknown things. Man is an adventurer, ready to
risk his life for any dream that takes possession of him.
The man lives in the eyes and the woman lives in the ears, hence the desire
in women to gossip. Such immense joy in gossiping... Just look at two women
gossiping -- they look as if they are in such ecstasy.
I have heard...
Once there was a competition in China, a competition to decide who was the
greatest liar in the country. And many people came and told many lies, but
the man who won the prize was the man who said, 'I saw two women in a park
sitting silently on one bench for half an hour.'
He won the first prize. It is impossible!
Because of the woman, the fall, the original sin happened. The snake must
have tried on Adam first. But Adam is not the ears, he is the eyes; he must
have seen the tricky snake, and he must have said, 'Keep to yourself. Don't
bother me. I have my own dreams.' But the snake persuaded Eve. He must have
gossiped with her. This was gossip: 'What are you doing? And here is the
Tree of Knowledge. God has deceived you. If you eat the fruit of this tree
you will become as immortal as God. If you eat the fruit of this tree you
will know all that God knows. You will be omniscient, omnipotent,
omnipresent.'
The woman naturally became curious -- such a practical thing. The snake
persuaded her. The snake was the first salesman. Salesmen don't go to men.
They only knock on the door when the man has gone to the office. The woman
has to be persuaded. Only the woman has ears.
The ears are the passive part of your being, the receptive part. Something
can enter through the ears. The eyes are the aggressive part. You cannot be
aggressive with the ears, remember. But with the eyes you can be aggressive.
You can look in such a way at a person as if your eyes were daggers. You can
offend people with your eyes or you can love people with your eyes. You can
reach people with your eyes or you can become unreachable. Somebody can look
into your eyes so vacantly that he becomes unreachable. Somebody can look
into you so absently that he is unreachable. Or somebody can look with such
desire, such passion, such longing, such caring, that his eyes almost start
caressing your body. The eyes are the aggressive parts. They can project,
they can reach.
In India, the person who stares at women offensively is called LUCHCHA. And
you will be surprised: the word LUCHCHA comes from LOCHAN. LOCHAN means
eyes. He is raping with his eyes; his eyes can almost become his genital
organs. Eyes are dangerous.
Ears are very innocent. They only take in. They are feminine.
THE ANIMUS LIVES IN THE EYES: IT SEES, IT DREAMS. BUT WHOEVER IS IN A DARK
AND WITHDRAWN MOOD, AND CHAINED TO HIS BODILY FORM, IS FETTERED BY THE
ANIMA.
But whenever you are in a withdrawn mood, in a mood of passivity, then you
are chained to the body, and you are chained by the anima. It does not
matter whether you are man or woman. If a woman is using her eyes and is
trying to see rather than trying to listen, she becomes animus. If a man is
trying to listen, he becomes anima. A disciple becomes anima -- has to
become, because a disciple needs to become all ears and nothing else.
The Master is all eyes, and the disciple is all ears. The Master has to see
and has to see the deepest in you. He has to penetrate your very core. And
the disciple has to listen, to be attentive, to be available, to allow the
Master to reach the very innermost core of his being.
The disciple becomes feminine. That's why women are the best disciples in
the world. Man finds a little difficulty in becoming a disciple. Even if he
becomes, he becomes a disciple reluctantly. He resists, he fights, he
doubts, he creates many many ways to somehow escape. If he cannot, then
helplessly he relaxes -- but helplessly. The woman jumps joyously. The
greatest disciples have been women, and the proportion has always remained
the same. If there are five disciples one will be a man, four will be women;
that has been the proportion. It was so with Mahavir, it was so with Buddha,
it is so with me. It has always been so.
Man thinks women are starry-eyed, hypnotically available, suggestible.
These are a man's condemnations. He thinks that he himself cannot be
hypnotized. Women are very very ready to be hypnotized, he thinks.
In a way he is right and in a way he is wrong too. If the woman comes to
the snake, she will be converted by the snake. If the woman comes to a
Buddha she will be converted by a Buddha. Yes, she is suggestible. It all
depends to whom she comes. If a man listens to the snake, he will not be
converted; he will be saved from the snake. But if he comes to listen to
Buddha, he will not be converted there, either. Now he has missed his
salvation.
THEREFORE THE CONCENTRATION OF THE ANIMUS IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE
CIRCULATION OF THE LIGHT, AND IN THIS WAY THE SPIRIT IS MAINTAINED, THE
ANIMA SUBJUGATED.
The light has to circulate in the eyes. The eyes are the most lighted part
of your being. Taoists say your eyes are parallel to the sun. If you don't
have eyes you cannot see light, and only the similar can see the similar.
Your eyes are condensed light, that's why you can see light through the
eyes. Your ears are condensed sound, that's why you can hear through the
ears.
The anima in everybody, whether man or woman, has to be subjugated. Why? --
because it is the form, it is the body, it is matter. The spirit has to be
the master, the spirit has to rise above the body. The spirit has to make
the body follow it, not vice versa. So whether one is a man or a woman
doesn't matter. The anima inside has to be made a follower of the animus
because only the animus can search and seek, and if the woman is coming
behind, the animus can go perfectly deeply into reality. If the poet knows
that the woman is behind him, supporting him, his poetry can soar very high.
If the man knows that the woman is always with him, he has great strength;
he can go on any adventure. The moment he feels that the woman is not with
him, his energy is out. Now he has only dreams; but they are impotent --
they have no more energy, they cannot be realized.
The realizing factor is the woman. The dreaming factor is the man.
In the search for God, or truth, the man has to lead and the woman has to
follow. Inside you the animus has to become the master, and the anima has to
become the disciple -- and, remember again, irrespective of whether you are
man or woman.
THE METHOD USED BY THE ANCIENTS FOR ESCAPING FROM THE WORLD CONSISTED IN
MELTING OUT COMPLETELY THE SLAG OF DARKNESS IN ORDER TO RETURN TO THE PURELY
CREATIVE.
Woman is stagnant. Man is dynamic. That's why you see women looking so
restful and men looking so restless. Even when you were a child, just a
small child, a baby, the difference was there. The boy baby is very
restless, is trying to grab this, grab that, trying to reach somewhere; he
is a nuisance. And the girl baby is never a nuisance; she sits silently
hugging her doll. She is also a doll. A tremendous restfulness... The
principle of rest is woman and the principle of restlessness is man, hence
the roundness and the beauty of woman and the constant feverish state of
man.
But to grow you will need the restless principle in you, because growth
means change. The woman is basically orthodox, the man is basically
unconventional. The woman always supports the status quo, and the man is
already ready to go for any stupid revolution. Anything changing, and he is
for it. Whether it is changing for good or bad, that is not such an
important thing -- 'Change is good.' The woman is always for the old, the
established -- whether it is good or bad is not the question -- 'Because it
has always been so, so it has to be so.'
Growth needs the principle of stasis in you to melt. The woman in you is
frozen; it has to be melted so you can become a river. But the river also
needs the support of the banks -- which are static, remember. If the river
has no banks it will never reach the ocean. And if the river is frozen it
will never reach the ocean. So the river has to melt, become water, and
still has to take the support of the banks, which are static. The perfect
man is one who has used his dynamism as the river and who has used his
stasis as the banks. This is the perfect balance. Then you have used your
animus to grow, and you have used your anima to make your growth an
established fact, not just a momentary phenomenon.
THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A REDUCTION OF THE ANIMA AND A COMPLETION OF THE
ANIMUS.
But ordinarily, men, women -- everybody has become static. Even men are so
orthodox. Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans, Jainas -- even men are so
orthodox. They have fallen victim to their anima, their animus has been
subjugated. It has to be released.
That's my whole effort here: to release your animus from the grip of the
anima. Once the animus is released from the grip of your anima, then we can
use the anima too; but not before. Hence my insistence on dynamic methods of
meditation. Only once in a while do I suggest that people go to Zazen,
Vipassana -- only when I see that their animus is flowing. Now they can use
their anima.
Vipassana, Zazen are anima methods, feminine methods. Sufi dancing, Dynamic
Meditation, Nataraj, they are animus methods. First you have to become a
river, only then can your banks be used as supports.
AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE LIGHT IS THE MAGICAL MEANS OF REDUCING THE DARK,
AND GAINING MASTERY OVER THE ANIMA. IF THIS METHOD IS FOLLOWED, PLENTY OF
SEED-WATER WILL BE PRESENT OF ITSELF; THE SPIRIT-FIRE WILL BE IGNITED, AND
THE THOUGHT-EARTH WILL SOLIDIFY AND CRYSTALLIZE. AND THUS THE HOLY FRUIT
MATURES.
The holy fruit is neither male nor female. The holy fruit matures only in
wholeness. When your anima and animus are supporting each other like the two
wings of a bird, then eros is released, logos is released, intuition is
released. Then you start flying into the sky and yet you remain rooted in
the earth.
For a tree to go high in the sky it will need deep roots in the earth. The
earth is anima, the sky is animus. And the higher the tree goes into the
sky, the deeper it has to go into the earth -- in the same proportion.
THE ONE NATURE, WHEN IT DESCENDS INTO THE HOUSE OF THE CREATIVE, DIVIDES
INTO ANIMUS AND ANIMA.
God is one, but when he becomes creative, he divides himself into two:
animus and anima. Without it there is no possibility of manifestation.
Without it there will be no dialectics. God divides himself into thesis and
antithesis, because only through thesis and antithesis -- the challenge, the
conflict, the struggle. And through the struggle, the friction, energy is
created.
It is just like when you strike two stones and fire comes up. It is just
like when you clap two hands and sound is created. Zen Masters say, 'Find
the sound of one hand clapping.' What do they mean? They mean go beyond the
two so you can find the One. But that One is the unmanifest God. That One is
the very source from which we have come. And we can reach the source only
when our two-ness has disappeared.
Now this two-ness has to be used in such a way that the thesis and
antithesis become synthesis. That is the whole art of life, and that's what
I am teaching you. My sannyasin has to be a synthesis of man and woman, of
day and night, of world and renunciation, of matter and spirit, of earth and
sky.
THE ANIMUS IS IN THE HEAVENLY HEART, in the third eye. IT IS OF THE NATURE
OF LIGHT; IT IS THE POWER OF LIGHTNESS AND PURITY. IT IS THAT WHICH WE HAVE
RECEIVED FROM THE GREAT EMPTINESS, the great sky, THAT WHICH IS IDENTICAL IN
FORM WITH THE PRIMORDIAL BEGINNING. THE ANIMA PARTAKES OF THE NATURE OF THE
DARK.
Hence the mystery of the woman. No man has ever been able to unravel the
mystery. Only if one has gone beyond both, only if one has become a Buddha
can one know the mystery of both man and woman. Otherwise no man has ever
been able to plumb the depths of a woman; the woman remains mysterious,
dark, a dark night. You cannot see clearly -- you can at most grope. You can
never be logically clear about the woman. She never follows logic, her path
is very zig-zag. She jumps to conclusions directly without ever going
through the process. The man goes step by step through the process; he is
methodical.
The woman is a poet in the sense that she is intuitive. She may not create
poetry -- she is a poet without creating any poetry. Her life is her poetry.
And it is as dark as poetry: mysterious, vague, ambiguous. Nothing is clear,
nothing can ever be clear: the woman cannot be demystified. She remains
always a question mark.
Man is clear like light. Hence man looks shallow, woman looks deep. Hence
man seems to be completely on the surface. You can know about him; if you
know about him you can predict him. But you can never predict a woman; she
remains unpredictable, hence the darkness. These are metaphors.
IT IS THE ENERGY OF THE HEAVY AND TURBID...
And the woman, the principle of the feminine, keeps you tethered to the
earth; it is gravitation.
... IT IS BOUND TO THE BODILY FLESHLY HEART. THE ANIMUS LOVES LIFE. THE
ANIMA SEEKS DEATH.
The woman is more like death. Don't feel offended, this is just a
description. If the words 'anima' and 'animus', 'man' and 'woman' create
some trouble in you, you can replace them with x and Y. But that is what THE
SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS doing. These are just metaphors. To make them
anthropomorphic helps them to be understood more clearly.
Man is interested in life, woman is interested in security. Man is
interested in love, woman is interested in safety. Man is interested in
adventure, woman is interested in comfort, convenience. Woman is death. By
'death' there is no condemnation meant or supposed, just that the quality of
death is security. You are secure only when you are dead. You are secure
only when you are not, then nothing can happen to you anymore.
But man wants to seek and search, to risk. That's why the husband goes on
looking for other women, and the woman goes on watching the husband. She
cannot conceive why he is still interested in other women -- 'I am here!'
But the male principle is always interested in something new, in the
sensational, the new thrill. And sometimes it happens that his own wife may
be a beauty, and he may start fooling around with an ugly woman. Nobody can
see the point of it -- what is happening. 'You have such a beautiful woman,
and what are you doing?'
But you don't understand the male principle. The male principle is
basically polygamous, and the feminine is monogamous. She wants to settle.
She is more interested in marriage than in love. She is interested in love
only to get married. And man gets married only because he is interested in
love.
There is an ancient saying that the world would be immensely joyful if
every man remained unmarried and every woman was married. But how can it be
done? It is impossible.
THE ANIMUS LOVES LIFE. THE ANIMA SEEKS DEATH. ALL SENSUOUS DESIRES AND
IMPULSES OF ANGER ARE EFFECTS OF THE ANIMA. BUT THE PUPIL UNDERSTANDS HOW TO
DISTIL THE DARK ANIMA COMPLETELY SO THAT IT TRANSFORMS ITSELF INTO PURE
LIGHT.
But the alchemy consists in understanding these two principles in each of
you, man or woman; and in transforming the anima, the dark part in you, into
the light part; in helping the dark part to move, in helping the dark part
help the light part and not to fight with it.
If your anima can help your animus that is real marriage, the inner
marriage. Then you start becoming integrated, then your light is no more
shallow, it has the depth of darkness. And your darkness is no more dark, it
has the light of lightness. Then anima and animus melt into each other. And
when they melt utterly, the world has disappeared, you are again one. And to
be one is to know God. To remain two is to remain in the world. And the
secret, the experiment, has to happen within you, it has nothing to do with
the outside world.
Inside you these two principles are constantly in fight. Call them
life/death, darkness/light, man/woman, x/z -- whatsoever you will -- but
these two principles are there, continuously in fight. And that is your
anguish, your misery, your hell. Let them become friends. Let your energy
circulate in them, not against each other, let them come closer to each
other. Let there be an inner orgasm, an inner intercourse between the woman
and the man. That's what in Tantra is called YUGA-NADDHA, the meeting of the
man and woman within you. That is real Tantra. The meeting of the man and
woman on the outside is just an introduction.
Sudha leads the Tantra Group. That is just an introduction. The real Tantra
has yet to begin. She is just preparing you. The real Tantra Group will soon
start when I see that now you are ready to go in and meet THERE with your
inner woman and inner man. When I see your outer interest is no longer so
strong as to keep you out, is no longer so binding on you -- the chain is
broken -- then the real Tantra Group will start. I am waiting for the new
commune to happen, because the new Tantra Group will need a totally
different kind of climate, a totally different kind of atmosphere. This is
the greatest experiment that a man can go through. And this experiment
releases in you cosmic ecstasy, total orgasm.
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