MEDITATION
THE SECRET OF SECRET VOL2
The festive dimension
MEDITATION
THE SECRET OF SECRET VOL2
The festive dimension
The first question:
Question 1
ONE OF THE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES ABOUT THE RAJNEESH ASHRAM CONCERNS
INDULGENCE IN SEX AND WHAT ARE BEING CONDEMNED AS SEXUAL PERVERSIONS OR
ORGIES. WE WOULD LIKE BHAGWAN RAJNEESH TO GIVE US HIS VIEWS ON SEX AND ITS
ROLE IN TRANSCENDENCE. -- R.K. Karanjia, Editor, BLITZ
My dear Karanjia, the way I teach is the way of life-affirmation. I teach
life in its totality. In the past, religions have been life negative They
have denied life, destroyed life; they have been antagonistic to life, their
God was against life. To me, life and God are synonymous; there is no other
God than life itself I worship life.
And
if life is God, then love is His temple. These three l's are the
fundamentals of my teaching: Life as God, Love as the temple, Light as the
experience. If you have learned these three l's, you have learned all.
But because the religions have remained antagonistic to life and love, it
is natural that a great controversy will arise around me. I cherish it. It
is natural. I am not worried by the controversy. I would be worried if it
didn't arise. It is absolutely expected; it is absolutely according to my
plan of work.
Why have the religions been life-negative in the past? In the name of
religion man has been exploited -- exploited by the priest and by the
politician. And the priest and the politician have been in deep conspiracy
against man. The only way to exploit man is to make him afraid. Once a man
is full of fear he is ready to submit. Once a man is trembling inside, he
loses trust in himself. Then he is ready to believe in any stupid nonsense.
You cannot make a man believe in nonsense if he has self trust.
Remember, that's how man has been exploited down the ages. This is the very
trade secret of the so-called religions: make man afraid, make man feel
unworthy, make man feel guilty, make man feel that he is just on the verge
of hell.
How to make man so afraid? The only way is: condemn life, condemn
whatsoever is natural. Condemn sex because it is the fundamental of life;
condemn food because that is the second fundamental of life; condemn
relationship, family, friendship, because that is the third fundamental of
life -- and go on condemning. Whatsoever is natural to man, condemn it, say
it is wrong: "If you do it you will suffer for it. If you don't do it you
will be rewarded. Hell is going to descend on you if you go on living
naturally" -- that is the message of the whole past -- "and heaven will be
given to you if you go against life."
That means if you are suicidal, only then will God accept you. If you
slowly, slowly commit suicide in the senses, in the body, in the mind, in
the heart, and you go on destroying yourself, the more you succeed in
destroying yourself, the more you will become beloved to God. This has been
the whole teaching of the religions in the past. This has contaminated man's
being, poisoned man. These poisoners have exploited man tremendously out of
it. These religions of the past were death-oriented, not life-oriented.
What I am heralding is a life-oriented vision: love life in its
multidimensionality because that is the only way to reach closer and closer
to the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth is not far away; it is hidden in
the immediate. The immediate is the ultimate, the immanent is the
transcendent. God is not there but here. God is not that but this. And you
are not unworthy, and you are not a sinner.
I am here to help you unburden all your guilt feelings. I am here to help
you to start trusting yourself again. Once you start trusting your own
being, no politician, no priest can exploit you. Man is always exploited
through fear.
I have heard...
Once Mulla Nasruddin got lost in a jungle. The whole day he tried to find a
way out, but he could not -- tired, hungry, exhausted, bleeding, his clothes
torn apart because the jungle was really thick and thorny. And it was
getting darker, the sun was setting and the night was just about to come.
He's an atheist, a confirmed atheist who had never prayed. But with the
situation -- the fear of the night and the wild animals -- for the first
time in his life he thought of God. He forgot all his arguments that he used
to give against God. He knelt down on the ground and he said, "Dear
Lord...." although he looked around, a little embarrassed, knowing perfectly
well that there was nobody, but still embarrassed -- the whole life's
philosophy of atheism! But when fear knocks on the doors and when death is
so close by, who bothers about logic, philosophies, isms? Who bothers about
reason, argument? "Dear Lord," he said, "please help me get out of these
woods, and I will always worship you. I will even start going to the mosque.
I will follow all the rituals of Islam. I promise you! Just save me. Forgive
me. I apologize for all the things that I have been saying against you. I
was a fool, an utter fool. Now I know you are."
Just at that moment a bird passed overhead and dropped something right on
his outspread hands. "Please Lord, don't give me any of that shit. I'm
really lost!"
When a man is in fear, even though he has been a lifelong atheist, he
starts turning into a theist. Priests came to know about it, and then they
used it down the ages. The whole past of humanity is fear ridden.
And the greatest way to create fear is to make man feel guilty about
natural things. He CANNOT drop them, and he cannot enjoy them because of the
fear of hell, so he is in a double bind. That double bind is the base of
man's exploitation. You cannot just drop your sexuality because some stupid
priest is saying that it is wrong. It has nothing to do with your idea of
right and wrong; it is something natural, something in the very being. You
have come out of it, each of your cells is a sexual cell. Just by saying,
you cannot drop it. Yes, you can start repressing it, and by repressing you
can go on accumulating it in the unconscious, and that becomes a wound. And
the more you repress, the more obsessed you become with it. And the more
obsessed you become, the more guilty you feel. It is a vicious circle. Now
you are caught in the trap of the priest.
And the priest himself has never believed in it, neither has the politician
ever believed in it. These things were for the people, for the masses; the
masses have been befooled.
The stories say that kings used to have hundreds of wives, and so was the
case with priests. And it is a miracle: the people continued to believe in
these charlatans.
Just in this century, just fifty years ago, the Nizam of Hyderabad had five
hundred wives and was still thought to be a very religious man because he
followed all the rituals. The priest and the politician have both been doing
all that they have been telling the people not to do, sometimes openly,
sometimes from the back door.
I have heard...
There is an old saying, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame
on me."
But the priests have been fooling you down the ages, and they have fooled
you so long that it is now almost an accepted phenomenon. It has been so
ancient that we take it for granted; nobody thinks that they are being
fooled.
It reminds me of a church a friend of mine went to which runs raffles. Once
a year they get three automobiles, and they put them up in front of the
church, and they sell the chances. Last year they raffled off a Cadillac, a
Mercury, and a Plymouth. Three days after the raffle the pastor was walking
down the street, and he bumped into my friend coming out of a thirst parlor.
My friend looked at him and said, "Can you tell me who won the automobiles?
Who won the Cadillac?"
And the priest said, "Why, the Cardinal did. Wasn't he lucky?" And my
friend said, "Who won the Mercury?"
"Why, the Monsignor did. Wasn't he lucky?"
And my friend said, "Well, tell me, who won the Plymouth?" And the priest
said, "Why, Father Murphy. Wasn't he lucky?"
At that moment my friend started to go back in and get another drink. The
priest grabbed him and said, "By the way, how many tickets did you buy?"
And my friend said, "I didn't buy a damned one! Wasn't I lucky?"
The priests have tremendously harmed the human heart, human consciousness.
They have put this poisonous idea in man that life is something ugly. They
have been teaching people how to get rid of life. I teach my people how to
get deeper into it. They have been teaching how to be free of life. I teach
how to make your life free. They have been teaching how to end this life,
and I am teaching you how to move into it for eternity, on and on, how to
live life abundantly. Hence the controversy; it is bound to be there. My
vision is just the opposite to what has been taught in the name of religion.
I am bringing a new vision of religion to the world. This is the boldest
attempt ever made: to accept life in its multidimensions, to enjoy it, to
celebrate it, to rejoice in it. Renunciation is not my way, but rejoicing.
Fasting is not my way, but feasting. And to be festive is to be religious.
My definition of religion is the festive dimension.
No other animal can be festive; no other animal knows anything about
festivals. Porpoises can play, chimpanzees can play; only man celebrates.
Celebration is the highest growth of consciousness, expression,
manifestation, flowering of the Golden Flower.
I teach you celebration. Celebration is my key.
And I teach you: celebrate your sex, it is a God-given gift. Celebrate your
body, it is God's grace. Celebrate each moment that has been given to you,
each breath, each heartbeat. It is such a benediction.
Live God right now! I don't give you God as a goal; I make God available to
you right now, this very moment. Celebrate, and you are in God.
The old religions were sad. The old religions were serious. My religion is
that of playfulness: everything has to be taken into the mood of
playfulness. Don't take life seriously; it is fun.
And to take it as fun is to be prayerful. Then there is no complaint, then
there is only gratefulness.
The question is important. A few things would be helpful.
There are people who are pathological, and the pathological mind has
dominated in the past. Those people cannot enjoy; they don't know how to
enjoy. Because they are incapable of enjoying, they make a great virtue out
of it. Non-enjoyment becomes virtue.
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People
think just because they are alive and they breathe and they exist, they know
how to enjoy. That is sheer stupidity. Enjoyment is a great art, it is a
great discipline. It is as subtle a discipline as music or poetry or
painting. It is the greatest creativity.
People are born and they start thinking that they are ready to enjoy life,
and they cannot enjoy because they don't know how to enjoy it. They make a
mess out of their lives, and sooner or later, when-you are making a mess,
there are only two possibilities. One is: think that you are being stupid
with life; that hurts the ego. The other is: that life is worthless, that
life is misery, that there is no joy in life -- "That's why I am not
enjoying it. Nothing is wrong with me; if there is something wrong, it is in
the very structure of life itself." This has been the approach in the past:
"If I cannot see light, then there is no light" -- not that I am blind. "If
I cannot hear sound, then there is no sound" -- not that I am deaf.
This has been very, very helpful to the egoist. He tries, and then he finds
he cannot enjoy; finding that he cannot enjoy, he starts condemning. He
starts condemning those who can enjoy too. He feels jealous, he feels
disturbed. Out of his jealousy, out of his disturbance, he poisons people's
minds. If you are enjoying he says, "Look, you will suffer in hell. You are
doing a crime!" Celebrating, dancing, singing, loving? Life is a punishment
for him, and you are taking it as a reward? And these pathological people
have dominated in the past.
Once, a friend of mine was alone on a dreary night in a lounge of an
intercontinental hotel. Hoping to strike up a conversation with a
distinguished-looking man sitting nearby, he said, "May I buy you a drink?"
"No," said the man coolly. "Don't drink Tried it once and did not like it."
Nothing daunted my friend, so he offered him a cigar, saying he had just
picked up a good one. "No, don't smoke. Tried it once and did not like it."
"Then how about a little game of rummy?"
"No. Don't play cards. Tried it once, but did not like it. But my son will
be dropping by after a bit. He might want to play."
My friend settled back in his chair and said, "Your only child, I presume."
These are the potential priests. They tried once and they didn't enjoy --
as if enjoyment is their birthright.
It has to be earned, it is an art. One has to imbibe it. It takes years of
preparation, it takes years of cleansing. To hear classical music just for
the first time, and think that you don't enjoy it so forget all about it,
would be stupid. Your ears need a certain discipline, only then can they
understand the subtle. The gross is available. It is easy to be with the
gross because it is animal. But to move into the deeper realms of life one
needs great discipline, great meditativeness, great prayerfulness, great
gratitude.
And the basic thing to remember is: if life is not becoming a celebration,
then something is wrong with you, not with life itself The old religions
said life is wrong. I make you responsible, not life. Life is God. And from
there the whole process changes; then something has to be cleaned in you.
Something that is hanging around you has to be cut. Chunks of conditioning
have to be dropped. You have to go through a surgery.
That's what this Ashram is all about: it is a surgical place. It is no
ordinary Ashram like the thousands there are in India. It is a great
existential experiment: we are creating a future here, a new kind of man
with a new responsibility. We are laying the foundation stones of a new day,
of a new sunrise. We are opening new doors to possibilities which have
remained closed in the past. And because of this, humanity has suffered in
the past, suffered a lot, and unnecessarily suffered.
And the more people suffered, the more they thought, "The priests are
right: life is wrong!" And the priests were creating more and more negative
attitudes in people.
Moe went to a department store to buy himself a suit. He found the style he
wanted, so he took the jacket off the hanger and tried it on.
A salesman came up to him. "Yes, sir. It looks wonderful on you."
"It may look wonderful," said Moe irritably, "But it fits terrible. The
shoulders pinch."
The salesman did not bat an eye. "Put on the pants," he suggested. "They
will be so tight, you will forget all about the shoulders."
That has been the common practice of the priest: if something hurts, he
gives you an even more tight structure, more tight and dead and dull a
character. If something hurts, he makes you hurt more so you forget all
about the old hurt.
It always happens. If you have a headache and your house catches fire, you
will forget about the headache. Who can afford to think about a headache
when the house is on fire?
The priest goes on inventing more and more tortures for you. He has not
allowed you to enjoy anything. Taste is wrong; you should eat food without
tasting. If you taste you are committing a crime. Dance is wrong; why? --
because it is bodily. The body is the enemy. Music is wrong because it is
sensuous. ALL is wrong!
You have to go on cutting yourself. Rather than expanding, the priest has
been trying to shrink you. In the modern age the psychoanalyst is called the
'shrink', but the priests have been doing that down the ages -- they have
been shrinking people. And when you have shrunk so much that it hurts all
over, that you are almost in a prison cell, so small that you cannot move,
that has been called character. Then naturally, one wants to get rid of
life. One prays to God for only one thing: relieve me, redeem me.
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And here is where the society, the poisonous society, enters into the
psyche of the child: "Don't touch!" 'Don't' is the first dirty, four-letter
word. And out of this one four-letter word, then many more come: can't,
won't -- these are all four-letter words. Once the child is told "Don't!"
and the angry parent, mother or father, and those eyes... And the child's
hand is taken away from his genital organs, which are naturally very
enjoyable. He really enjoys it, and he is not being sexual or anything. It
is just the most sensitive part of his body, the most alive part of his
body, that's all.
But our conditioned minds.... He is touching a sexual organ; that is bad,
we take his hand away. We create guilt in the child.
Now we have started destroying his natural sexuality. Now we have started
poisoning the original source of his joy, of his being. Now we are creating
hypocrisy in him; he will become a diplomat. When the parents are there he
will not play with his sexual organs. Now the first lie has entered; he
cannot be true. Now he knows that if he is true to himself, if he respects
himself, if he respects his own joy, if he respects his own instinct, then
the parents are angry. And he is helpless against them, he is dependent on
them, his survival is with them. If they renounce him, he will be dead; so
the question is of choosing whether you want to live. The condition is that
if you want to live you have to be against yourself, and the child has to
yield.
The child is the most exploited phenomenon in the world. No other class has
been so exploited as the child. He cannot do anything: he cannot make unions
to fight with the parents, he cannot go to the court, he cannot go to the
government. He has no way to protect himself against the parental attack.
And when the parents stop him, they are stopping him because of their own
conditioning; their parents had done the same to them. They are very much
embarrassed by the child's touch ing his own genital organs and playing with
them, and so unashamedly.
Now the child knows nothing of shame, he is innocent. The 'don't' has
entered; the energy recoils. The first trauma has happened. Now the child
will never be able to accept his sexuality naturally, joyously. Repression
has happened and the child is divided in two; his body is no more whole.
Some part of the body is not acceptable, some part of the body is ugly, some
part of the body is unworthy to be part of his body; he rejects it. Deep
down in his psychology he starts castrating himself, and the energy recoils.
Energy will not be flowing as naturally as it used to flow before this
'don't' happened.
And the natural outcome of this stupidity that has been perpetually
practiced on humanity is that first the child is no more a natural being,
hypocrisy has entered. He has to hide something from the parents or he has
to feel guilty.
This is the autosexual state: many people remain stuck there. That's why so
much masturbation continues all over the world. It is a natural state. It
would have passed on its own, it was a growing phase, but the parents
disturbed the energy's growing phase.
The child becomes stuck: he wants to play with his genital organs and he
cannot. Repressing, repressing, one day it is too much and he is POSSESSED
by the sexual energy. And once he has started masturbating, it may become a
habit, a mechanical habit, and then he will never move to the second stage.
And the people who are responsible are the parents, the priest, the
politicians -- the whole social mind that has existed up to now.
Now this man may remain stuck at this stage, which is very childish. He
will never attain to full grown-up sexuality. He will never come to know the
blissfulness that can come only to a grown-up sexual being. And the irony is
that these are the same people who condemn masturbation and make much fuss
about it. And they make such statements which are very dangerous: they have
been telling people that if you masturbate you will go blind, if you
masturbate you will become a zombie, if you masturbate you will never be
intelligent, you will remain stupid. Now all the scientific findings are
agreed upon one point: that masturbation never harms anybody. But these
suggestions harm. Now this is an absolute agreement; there are no two
opinions about it. All the psychological researches agree that masturbation
never harms anybody, it is a natural outlet of energy. But these ideas --
that you will go blind -- may make it dangerous to your eyes, because again
and again you will think that you will go blind, that you will go blind,
that you will go blind.... So many people are using glasses, and the reason
may not be in the eyes; the reason may be just somewhere else. So many
millions of people are stupid, and the reason may not be that they are
stupid -- because no child is born stupid, all children are born
intelligent. The reason may be somewhere else: in these techniques. You will
remain ill, you will lose self-confidence. And so many people are afraid,
trembling continuously, have no trust, no self-confidence, are continuously
afraid, because they know what they have been doing.
Now thousands of letters come to me: "We are caught up in this trap; how
can we come out of it?"
And let me repeat: masturbation has never harmed anybody. But the moment
when a person masturbates is a very sensitive and delicate moment; his whole
being is open and flowing. In that moment if some suggestion is dropped in
his mind -- and he himself will drop the suggestion, "Now what if I go mad?
if I go blind? if I remain always stupid?" -- these constant autohypnotic
suggestions are the cause of a thousand and one illnesses, of a thousand and
one psychological problems, perversions.
Who is responsible for this?
And people who come to me come with all these perversions. And I try to
help them, and MANY are helped and many grow beyond it. But the society
thinks I am teaching people some perversions. This is just unbelievable. I
am helping you to grow beyond your perversions; the society has given you
perversions. You live in a perverted society!
If the child is allowed the natural phase of autosexuality, he moves on his
own to the second phase, the homosexual -- but very few people move to the
second phase. The majority remain with the first phase. Even while making
love to a woman or a man you may not be doing anything else but just a
mutual masturbation. Because very few people attain to orgasmic states, very
few people come to the glimpses that are bound to be there if your sexuality
is mature. Very few people come to know about God through their lovemaking,
which is a natural phenomenon. In lovemaking, meditation happens naturally.
But it doesn't happen, and the reason is that millions, the majority, are
stuck at the first stage. Even if they have got married and they have
children, their lovemaking is not more than mutual masturbation. It is not
real lovemaking.
Lovemaking is an art, a great art; it needs great sensitivity, needs great
awareness, meditativeness, it needs maturity.
The second phase is homosexual. Few people move to the second phase; it is
a natural phase. The child loves his body. If the child is a boy, he loves a
boy's body, HIS body. To jump to a woman's body, to a girl's body, would be
too much of a big gap. Naturally, first he moves in love with other boys; or
if the child is a girl, the first natural instinct is to love other girls
because they have the same kind of body, the same kind of being. She can
understand the girls better than the boys; boys are a world apart.
The homosexual phase is a natural phase. There society helps people to
remain stuck again, because it creates barriers between man and woman, girls
and boys. If those barriers are not there, then soon the homosexual phase
fades away; the interest starts happening in the heterosex, the other sex.
But for that, society does not give chances -- a great China Wall exists
between the boy and the girl. In the schools they have to sit apart or they
have to be educated separately. In the colleges they have to live in
separate hostels. Their meeting, their being together, is not accepted.
That is one of the problems that is happening to me and to my people in
this so-called educated city. If this city is educated, then I wonder what
city can be called uneducated. The only problem to the Poonaites is that my
people are moving together, man, woman. It should be a natural phenomenon;
people should be happy that men and women are moving together, creating a
love-vibe around. But they have never moved together; they start feeling
disturbed. They start feeling jealous, they start feeling angry, because who
are these people to enjoy what has not been given to them? If it has not
been their joy they will not allow anybody else to have it either. But they
will not say it that way. They will talk great philosophy. They will hide
their jealousies behind great words of morality, of religion, of culture --
and they don't know anything of morality or religion or culture, because all
culture, all religion, all morality has to be based on love. If it is not
based on love it is not there at all. It is just a game, a pseudo-game that
you go on playing on the surface. Deep down you remain just the opposite of
it.
Homosexuality is perpetuated by the society and condemned by the same
society. These strategies have to be understood. The same society condemns
the homosexual, calls him perverted, criminal. There are still countries
where homosexuality is punished, you can be sent to jail for ten years.
There have been countries where a homosexual could have been sentenced to
death! And it is the same society that creates it!
You divide man and woman apart so much, you create watertight compartments.
And when the man wants to love he cannot find the woman, and the woman wants
to love and she cannot find a man. Then, whatsoever is available... she
starts falling in love with a woman, he starts falling in love with a man.
And it is not satisfying either, but it is better than nothing. Nature has
to find its way. If you don't allow the natural course, it will find some
roundabout way. Otherwise homosexuality is a natural phase; it passes by
itself.
And the third phase is heterosexual.
When a man is really out of autosex, homosex, then he is capable and mature
to fall in love with a woman -- which is a totally different world, a
different chemistry, a different psychology, a different spirituality. Then
he is able to play with this different world, this different organism. They
are poles apart, but when they come close -- and there are moments when they
are really close and overlapping -- first glimpses, lightning glimpses of
SAMADHI are attained.
Because it does not happen, many people think that I am just talking
something like poetry. It is not poetry! I am not talking fiction, I am
talking reality. What I am saying is an existential phenomenon, but the need
is that the man and the woman must be mature. They must have gone beyond the
first two stages; only then can this happen. And very rarely, VERY rarely,
are there people who are mature men and mature women. So nothing happens;
they make love, but that love is only superficial. Deep down they are
autosexual, or, at the most, homosexual.
To love a woman or to love a man, a new kind of being is needed which can
accept the polar opposite. And only with the polar opposite -- just as with
negative and positive electricity meeting, electricity is born, just like
that -- when life electricities meet, man and woman, yin and yang, Shiva and
Shakti, when that meeting happens, that merger, that tOUt oblivion, that
drunkenness, they have disappeared as separate entities, separate egos. They
are no longer separately there, therefore they are throbbing as one, two
bodies in one soul. That is the first experience of no-mind, no-ego,
no-time, and that is the first experience of SAMADHI.
Once this has been experienced, then a desire arises: how to attain this
SAMADHI so that it can become a natural state of affairs and you need not
depend on a woman, you need not depend on a man? -- because dependence
brings slavery. Only out of the experience of heterosexual orgasm does a
person start searching for ways, means, and methods -- Yoga, Tantra, Tao --
so that he can attain the same state on his own or on her own.
And yes, it can be attained, because deep inside each man is a man and a
woman -- half comes from his father, half comes from his mother -- and each
woman is half woman, half man. So once you have known it happening through
the outside woman, you will have the first glimpse that it can happen within
too. The outer woman simply triggered it, the outer man simply acted as a
catalytic agent; now you start meditating.
Then the fourth phase, the ultimate phase comes, which is BRAHMACHARYA,
which is REAL celibacy; not the celibacy of the monks -- that is not
celibacy at all -- but the celibacy of the Buddhas. It is BRAHMACHARYA. Sex
has disappeared; you don't need the outer woman, you don't need the outer
man. Now your inner man and woman have fallen in a togetherness, and this
togetherness is not momentary. This is real marriage; you are welded
together. Now to be orgasmic is your natural state. A Buddha lives in orgasm
continuously; he breathes in and out in orgasm.
These are the four stages of sex.
My effort here is to take you to the fourth, but people who come to me come
to me corrupted, crippled by the society, poisoned by the society. I have to
take much poison out of them. I have to take much pus out of their beings.
And only if they are courageous enough to be with me long enough, ready to
risk, does this transformation become possible.
And the people who live on the outside and just hear rumors about what is
happening here are bound to have stupid notions -- that indulgence is
happening, that orgies are happening, that violence is happening. It is as
if in a surgery you come to know that that surgeon is very dangerous because
he cuts people's parts, he opens their stomachs, much blood comes out --
"That doctor is very dangerous; never go to him!"
I am a physician; or better, I am a surgeon. And this place is a place for
spiritual surgery. It is an alchemical experiment in transforming your
energies.
The ordinary masses CANNOT UNDERSTAND IT, hence so much misunderstanding is
bound to remain about me. It will go slowly, slowly; it may take centuries.
And the people who have so much repressed sexuality in their beings can't
have understanding of what is happening here. Their repression makes their
eyes blind; they start projecting their ideas.
For example, a man who has repressed all his sexuality for his whole life
will go mad seeing a naked woman, because it will be like an explosion in
his being. But a man who has not repressed any sexuality will not even take
any note of seeing a naked woman; or he may simply think, "What a beautiful
body!" -- and that is that. He does not want to grab it, he does not want to
possess it. Just as you look at a roseflower: the rose flower is naked, you
don't put clothes on the rose flower. You don't put clothes on the animals.
There are a few ladies in England who try to put clothes on their dogs,
because of 'naked' dogs. Now these old ladies must be dirty! What kind of
mind is this?
So if in some of my groups nudity happens -- which is a natural part of the
group process -- and some people, sly people, can sometimes take photographs
with small, automatic cameras, and then those pictures are published all
over the world and it is thought that orgies are happening here... Something
totally different is happening here.
Twenty nuns were on a pilgrimage to Lourdes when their plane crashed. They
all, of course, went to heaven where they were met by Saint Peter and the
recording angel.
"Welcome ladies," he said. "Just a pure formality: will all those who are
virgins take one step forward." There was an embarrassed silence as only
nineteen stepped forward.
The recording angel put down his pen, turned to Peter and said, "Excuse me,
but what shall we do with the deaf one?"
Whom do you think you are deceiving with your repressions? Your repressions
are bound to take revenge on you from the back door.
The whole hypocrisy can disappear from the world if sex is accepted
naturally. Ninety-nine percent of hypocrisy is dependent on sex-repression.
Now, religions go on giving you double-binds. They first say, "Be
authentic, be true," and all that they teach makes you inauthentic, untrue,
hypocrites. This is a double-bind. They say, "Believe in truth, believe in
God"; now this is a double-bind. Belief simply means you don't know and
still you are believing; it is untrue. If one has to be true, one has to
seek and search and only then believe. But they say, "First believe in God,
and then you will be able to find Him." To begin with belief is to begin
with a lie.
And God is truth, and you begin in lies. Life is truth, and you begin in
hypocrisy. If you go on missing, it is no wonder. You are bound to miss all
joy.
In the past, this antagonism towards sex has been exploited for one more
reason. First, the priest exploited it to make you afraid, to make you
tremble. Then he became very high, holier than you; he dominated you. And
the politician exploited it in another way, for some other reason: if sex is
repressed, man becomes violent. Now, again this is a scientific finding. If
sex is repressed man becomes violent; violence is a perversion of sexual
energy. Now, the politicians needed armies, violent people, murderers. The
only way to get so many murderers was to repress sex.
If you don't repress sex, who wants to kill? For what? The sword, the
dagger, the bayonet are nothing but phallic deep down. The man wanted to
penetrate the woman's body and it would have been a beautiful phenomenon if
it had happened in love; but it could not happen, it was not allowed. Now he
is mad, he wants to enter anybody's body, in any way -- with a dagger, with
a sword, with a bayonet.
Sex has been repressed; the politician exploited it in his own way. He
needed armies, he needed slaves ready to die or to kill. The person who has
not lived his life in celebration is ready to die for anything. He is ready
to become a martyr for any stupid idea, ideology, scripture, religion.
The man who has lived the joy and the blessings of a life will not be so
easily ready to die. He will say, "Why? Life is so precious. I cannot
sacrifice my life just for a piece of cloth called the national flag." "I
cannot sacrifice my life," he will say, "just because somebody has burned
the Koran. So what? Print another." "I cannot sacrifice my life because
somebody has burned a temple. So what? My life is more precious than your
temple, because it is the alive temple of God." But a man who has not loved
and who has not lived is always ready.
I have heard: A great British politician went to see Adolf Hitler. They
were standing on the fourth storey and talking to each other, and Adolf
Hitler was bragging about his power and he was saying, "It is better that
you yield without fighting. Otherwise we will destroy your whole country.
You don't know what kind of men I have got." And to show, he just ordered a
soldier who was standing on guard, "Jump!" And the soldier didn't say a
thing, he simply jumped. He did not even hesitate for a single moment. The
English politician was really impressed. And to impress him still more, he
ordered the second soldier to jump, and he also jumped. By the time he
ordered the third, the Englishman could not contain himself; he rushed and
caught hold of the third. He said, "Are you mad? Why are you jumping like
that?" The man said, "Leave me alone. Let me jump! It is better to die than
to live with this man."
When life is misery it is better to die; any excuse is enough.
The politician needed violence; he exploited. The priest needed power; he
exploited.
I am neither a priest nor a politician. I am just a human being. as you
are. And I can see humanity -- how MUCH it has suffered. I feel for it
because it is me, it is you, and I want to have a totally different future
for humanity, for the children to come, for the people who will come on the
earth. If we can create a different future for them, that will be the only
revolution.
Up to now no revolution has happened, because ninety-nine percent of
hypocrisy, untruth, exploitation, violence depends on sexual repression, and
no sexual revolution has yet happened.
I am trying to create that situation. It is going to be against the
society. It is going to be very controversial, but it is natural. I want the
controversy to spread all over the world, because only through that
controversy the people who have intelligence, the people who have any kind
of understanding, are bound to come to me.
These repressed people cannot understand; their minds are full of holy cow
dung.
I have heard about a Boston priest who had volunteered to work part-time in
a peace group protesting the war in Vietnam. Doing some writing as well as
organizing, he would scurry in and out of the storefront headquarters among
the motley assembly of bearded students, jean-clad coeds, and young mothers
with babies in papoose sacks or strollers. Once when he had to make an
important phone call, he found all the phones taken. Knowing there was a
pay-phone in the basement, he rushed downstairs. There at a table was a
barebreasted mother who had just finished giving lunch to her baby. In great
embarrassment, the girl crossed her arms over her chest and said, "I beg
your pardon, Father." The priest smiled, "Don't be embarrassed, young lady.
We priests may be celibate, but in our work we grow accustomed to a great
many things. I assure you your condition does not trouble me in the least.
In fact, you can perhaps do me a favor: Could you give me a dime for two
nipples?"
A repressed mind is an obsessed mind. He cannot see reality as it is; it is
impossible. Before he can see reality as it is, he will have to drop all
kinds of repressions. A clean mind is needed, an innocent mind is needed.
The actor Charles Coburn told how his father warned him about the evils of
certain types of theaters....
His father was a very, very religious man.
"What kind of theaters, Father?" he asked.
"Burlesque theaters, son. Don't ever go in one."
Immediately Coburn asked, "Why not?" And his father answered, "Because you
will see things in a burlesque theater that you should not see."
That, of course, aroused his curiosity. Not many days passed before he took
in his first burlesque. Coburn remarked, "And I found out my father was
right. I did see something I should not have -- I saw my father there."
Man has lived with hypocrisy.
I want you to be authentic human beings, true to nature, true to your
being, respectful. Have some dignity. You have been chosen by God; it is a
great gift, just this life. Make it a festival, celebrate it. Love deeply,
and deep love will give you first glimpses of meditation and will release
your prayer. Drop all the taboos.
You will have to risk much. That's what sannyas is all about: the art of
risking -- because you will be moving into the unknown. You will be moving
into the unfamiliar, the unacquainted, the uncharted. The society gives you
a map, a clear-cut style of life to live; I give you only freedom. The
society gives you character, I give you only consciousness. The society
teaches you to live a conformist life. Of course, if you live a conformist,
conventional life you will be more secure, but more dead too. I give you an
invitation to go on an adventure.
Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel, risk, because nothing
is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are
to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.
And don't be a hypocrite, and don't compromise.
The situation recalls an incident around the turn of the century in a
Baptist church. A young soprano in the choir loft got so carried away with
her solo that she fell out. Breaking her fall, the singer caught herself in
the chandelier -- and there she was suspended upside-down. The fiery Baptist
minister was equal to the occasion. He said, "Speaking on my very sermon
subject of 'Hell and Damnation', I tell you that he who looks with lust in
his heart shall be blinded."
An old codger in the front pew said, "Reverend, with such a great
opportunity, is it all right to risk one eye?"
That's what people have been doing -- risking one eye. I tell you, risk
both! Don't compromise! Risk all! Let life be a play, a risk, a gamble, and
when you can risk all you will attain to a sharpness in your being. Your
soul will be born.
The Golden Flower can bloom in you only if you are courageous, daring. It
blooms only in courage.
And remember, sex may look like mud, but it contains the lotus flower in
it. This is one of my fundamentals: the lowest contains the highest, and the
highest is nothing but the manifestation of the lowest. The seed contains
the flowers and the flowers are nothing but expressions Of the seed. Sex
contains SAMADHI, because life contains God.
Move from sex to SAMADHI, from sex to superconsciousness; this is the only
natural and rightful way. Don't get stuck anywhere in sex. I teach you sex
and transcendence both, because the transcendence is possible only THROUGH
it. And the people who are teaching repression are not teaching
transcendence. In fact, they go on pouring more mud on you. They go on
forcing you deeper in the mud because there is no possibility of
transcendence if you have not moved through these sexual stages of
autoeroticism, of homoeroticism, of heteroeroticism, and then to
transcendence. And the lotus blooms, the one-thousand-petalled lotus. You
are containing it in yourself. Avoid the priests and the politicians and you
can achieve it. They are standing in the way.
But they always wanted it this way. It is good for them; it is not good for
anybody else. They have diverted your love. They have taken its natural
object from you; then love can be diverted. Now there are people who are in
love with the motherland -- what foolishness! What do you mean by
'motherland'? There are people who are in love with the fatherland -- still
more foolish. There are people who are in love with countries, ideologies --
communism, fascism, Hinduism, Christianity.
Your natural object of love has been taken away; now your love is
frantically searching for anything to become tethered to.
A great scientist was working on animals; he calls it 'imprinting'. He says
when the animal comes out of the egg, whatsoever he comes across, he
immediately becomes attached to it. He becomes attached to the mother
because the mother is almost always there. Giving warmth, taking care of the
egg, the mother is there. The moment the child opens his eyes, comes out of
the egg, looks around at the world, the first thing he comes across is the
mother. He becomes attached to the mother.
One scientist was trying to change the subject, and he succeeded. He
removed the mother. When the child was coming out of the egg, he removed the
mother; he sat there himself. Then he was in trouble, because the child
would continuously follow him. And not only that, when the child became a
grown-up, became sexually mature, he liked to make love to his feet. He
would come to his feet and would try to make love to the feet -- because
that was the first thing he had seen.
Mother is your first love. It is because of the mother that you will fall
in love with a woman some day. And, almost always, you will fall in love
with a woman who looks in some way like your mother.
"Psychiatry is a lot of junk," said one man to another. "Oh?" said his
companion. "Why do you say that?"
"Well, today my psychiatrist told me that I am in love with my umbrella.
Have you ever heard of anything so silly?" "It does sound rather daft."
"I mean, me and my umbrella certainly have a sincere affection for each
other. But LOVE? That is just ridiculous!"
If your natural object of love is taken away, you will love money... you
may even love your umbrella. You may start falling in love with things: you
may start falling in love with flags, countries. All kinds of nonsense is
possible once your natural love is distracted.
Bring your love to its natural object. Let it have a spontaneity of its
own, allow it to take possession of you, and you will be transformed through
it.
Love is the key, love is the secret.
The last question:
Question 2
BELOVED MASTER, YESTERDAY YOU SO LOVINGLY TRANSMITTED THE SPIRIT OF TAO.
THROUGHOUT THIS SERIES I HAVE BEEN BATHING RAPTUROUSLY IN THESE WATERS. ALL
THAT YOU HAVE EVER SAID IS COMING TRUE. I BEGIN TO FEEL SURRENDER AS THE
NATURAL CLIMATE OF THE FLOWER GROWING TOWARD THE SUN. THE BEAUTY IS HERE, IS
HERE....
Samarpan...
The old pond,
Samarpan jumps in,
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