FROM SEX TO SAMADHI
SAMADHI IS the highest rung of
being possessed by God, and sex is the lowest rung of being possessed by God.
But in both ways you are possessed by God. In sex God has to function through
your body, in SAMADHI he functions through your soul.
Question 1
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
GREAT SEXUAL SUPPRESSION AND FREEDOM FROM SEX? ON THE SURFACE, BOTH HAVE NO
INTEREST IN SEX. HOW DOES SUPPRESSED SEX BUBBLE UP?
First, suppressed sex has more
interest than expressed sex can ever have. The interest is not direct -- it is
indirect, it is vicarious, it is cunning; the interest is there, immensely
there. If your sex life is normal, unrepressed, uninhibited, the interest cannot
be so much, because you will have a kind of satisfaction, a contentment.
It is like when you have taken your
food, you forget about food. But if you fast, then you continuously think about
food. Fast one day and then go to the market, and you will see only hotels,
restaurants, food stores, and you will smell only food smells coming from
everywhere. And you had been to this place before many times. It had never
happened like that.
Repression cannot free you from
interest. The repressed person becomes more interested in sex than anybody else.
Maybe he shows antagonism, that's possible, but antagonism is interest. That's
why your so-called religious scriptures are full of antagonism towards sex,
condemnation. Your so-called MAHATMAS go on cursing sex. That simply shows their
interest, nothing else. They are still haunted by it. They may be sitting in
their caves in the Himalayas, but they are condemning sex. Why?
It is deep inside them, in their
very guts, they are fighting with it. Their condemnation is a way of their
fighting with it: they condemn it so that they can remain on top of it. If you
don't condemn for even a single day, they start feeling afraid that the real
thing from inside may surface, may throw away them and their control and their
saintlihood and their holiness.
And the more you repress, the more
it accumulates. It becomes more and more powerful.
So the first thing to understand is
that it is impossible for a repressed person not to show interest. He will show
DIS-interest -- but that is interest upside down. And if you watch, you will see
it coming everywhere. A normal sexual life has sex in a normal way. Sometimes it
takes possession of you, and it is beautiful to be possessed by it, because to
be possessed by any life energy is to be possessed by God.
That is the only natural way for
ordinary people who are not trying to attain some higher consciousness, who are
not going into meditation; that is the only way to have a taste of meditation.
When sex possesses you, it is God
possessing you -- on the lowest rung, of course. SAMADHI IS the highest rung of
being possessed by God, and sex is the lowest rung of being possessed by God.
But in both ways you are possessed by God. In sex God has to function through
your body, in SAMADHI he functions through your soul. In music, in art, in
poetry, in dance, he functions through your mind. But whenever you are in a
state of let-go, whenever you are not...
And that is the joy of sex, because
you disappear for a moment. That moment is very small, but immense is its
impact. For one moment you are no more the ego, you don't think in terms of 'I',
for one moment you dissolve into the unity of the all, you become one with the
whole, you pulsate with the whole. You are no more an individual, you are no
more confined to your body. You don't know limitations, for a moment you are
unlimited, infinite.
That is the meaning of sexual
orgasm -- that your frozen energy melts, becomes one with this universe, with
the trees and the stars, and the woman and the man, and the rocks -- for a
single moment, of course. But in THAT moment you have a kind of consciousness
that is religious, that is holy, because it comes from the whole.
The attraction for sex is the
attraction for God. The attraction for sex is the attraction to let-go. There is
nothing wrong in it; it is the beginning of the search for God. And of course
the beginning can begin where you are. You ARE in the body. So only in the body
can the search start. It should not remain there, that's true, but it cannot
start anywhere else. You have to go rung by rung, step by step. The higher you
move, the more meaningless the lower starts becoming. Not that you are against
it, but because you are gaining higher ecstasies -- who bothers about the lower?
The man who is against sex is below
sex. He has fallen below sex, he is obsessed with sex. His twenty-four hours
will be full of sexual thoughts, fantasies. and you can watch. He will show his
fantasy, his repression everywhere. You can see him walking on the road -- he
will not be able to walk naturally. A beautiful woman passes by, then what do
you do if you are carrying great repression? Trembling comes in him. He starts
looking the other way, or he escapes into a small street to avoid her. He cannot
look at the woman.
By looking he is showing where his
interest is. But by not looking he is also showing his interest.
The man who is above sex, the man
who has become free of sex avoids nothing. He has no antagonism toward sex. He
will have compassion for all those who are still in the world of sex. And the
man who has gone beyond sex will look at the beautiful woman, and the beautiful
woman will not remind him of sex but of God -- because ALL reminds him of God. A
beautiful flower reminds him of God, a beautiful face reminds him of God. In
fact, all reminds him of God.
A man went to his psychiatrist and
the psychiatrist was trying to find out what his problem was.
And psychiatrists, psychologists,
psychoanalysts have stumbled upon one great fact about humanity: that out of a
hundred, ninety-nine problems arise out of sex. Not because of sex, but because
of your religious conditioning against sex.
So the doctor was trying to find
out where the problem was arising from. He asked the man 'When you see a tree,
what does it remind you of?'
And the man said 'Of sex.'
Tree? -- of sex? To be more
certain, the doctor asked 'And when you see stars, what do they remind you of?'
And the man said 'Of sex, of
course.'
And the doctor, to be still more
certain, asked 'When you see a camel walking by what does it remind you of?'
And the man said 'Of sex.'
And the doctor said 'Camel? --
reminding you of sex?'
And the man said 'Yes, everything
reminds me of sex... It is not a question of the camel or the tree or the
elephant or the dog... EVERYTHING reminds me of sex!'
If you are obsessed, repressed,
everything will remind you of sex -- EVERYTHING, because you are carrying such a
load, you will go on projecting. There is no need for a real woman to be there,
just a SARI, hanging, will do. There is no need for a real woman there, just one
of my long-haired sannyasins going by... and from the back you see... and those
long hairs... and it is there.
You cannot get beyond sex by
repressing it. The way beyond is through. The way beyond is through
understanding.
I have heard...
Several men who had been involved
in a serious road accident were brought to hospital on stretchers and the dead
were separated from the living. One of those believed to be dead had been
accompanied by his wife, who was mainly interested in the insurance money to
which his death would entitle her.
As soon as she arrived therefore,
she approached one of the harassed doctors dealing with the emergency, and
pointing to her husband on his stretcher, said 'He's dead, isn't he, doctor?'
'I'm afraid so, madam' said the
doctor, incautiously assuming that the judgment of the stretcher-bearers as to
who was dead and who was not had been correct.
At this moment, the woman's
supposedly dead husband, who was in fact alive and had overheard the
conversation, suddenly sat up on his stretcher, and said 'I'm not dead, doctor!'
'Lie down' snapped his wife. 'The
doctor knows!'
Now, her interest is in the
insurance money. It shows; you cannot hide it. It will show in some way or
other. It will empty out of you.
You must have heard about great
RISHIS and MAHATMAS doing their meditations in the forest. And then APSARAS,
beautiful damsels from heaven, come to distract them. But why should these
beautiful women be interested in distracting these poor people, who are not
doing any harm to anybody? They are just sitting under their trees doing their
JAPA, their meditation. Why should anybody be interested in distracting them?
Indian scriptures are full of these
stories. But nobody asks 'Why in the first place...?' Why should God have a
portfolio, a special department to distract these poor, fasting, meditating
people? But they come. And those beautiful women dance around naked, and they
hug the MAHATMAS, and they try to distract them from their meditations. These
women are NOT coming from heaven. Heaven has no interest. Heaven really should
rejoice that another man is coming higher, reaching to heaven. It is not very
populated. Heaven is very uncrowded, almost a desert, because people go to hell.
God should rejoice, the angels should dance and sing that a new guest is coming.
There should be a sensation in heaven. Why should they send beautiful women to
distract? And in the first place, where will they find the beautiful women? They
all go to hell. What are they doing with beautiful women in heaven? But they
come. They don't come from heaven, they come from the unconscious repressed
sexuality
If you fast if you torture your
body, if you go on repressing your natural desires, a moment comes when you are
so full of it that the fantasy looks almost real. Then you cannot make any
distinction between the fantasy and the real. Then the imagination looks
objective. You are in a kind of hallucination. These are hallucinations.
No. You ask: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN GREAT SEXUAL SUPPRESSION AND FREEDOM FROM SEX?
The difference is great! The
difference is: that the man who has repressed his sex will remain continuously
giving signals about his sexuality and obsession. He will continuously talk
against it, he will condemn it. He will never be able to forgive anybody for
being sexual. Just the WORD IS enough to trigger his anger and hatred. If he
sees two persons in a loving state, he will be off his rocker.
Just a few days before, it
happened. One SHANKARACHARYA came to see me. Now this is the last place for
SHANKARACHARYAS to come to. He was staying with a doctor in Poona, and the
doctor is interested in me, and he must have persuaded the poor old man -- 'You
come.' Somehow he managed and brought him to the gate. He was sitting in the
car. The doctor had gone to the office to arrange for the meeting.
When he went back, the
SHANKARACHARYA was very angry. And he said 'Take me away from this place
immediately!'
The doctor said 'What has
happened?'
He said 'Look! Sannyasins -- men
and women -- holding hands! I CANNOT remain here a single moment. THIS IS not a
holy place! This is AGAINST religion and against culture!' He really got very
irritated.
The doctor wrote a letter to me 'I
have never seen him in such anger. He was in a rage, a MURDEROUS rage!'
Now where is it coming from? Why
should you be worried if a man and woman are holding hands? This is none of your
business. They are not forcing you to do anything, they are just going on their
way. They have not even looked at you. They are not enraged about you. Why
should you be enraged about them?
But about them is not the question.
The repressed sexuality is
provoked. Seeing a beautiful woman holding somebody's hand, jealousy arises. To
repress that jealousy, sex starts bubbling up. To repress that sex one has to be
very very angry. Only through anger can you repress sex.
People who repress sex become
angry. Have you watched it? They become irritated -- small things irritate them.
They are never at ease, always in anger. Have you seen people who have repressed
sex? They become aggressive, and they start finding ways and means to express
their aggression. They become politicians, they become money-oriented. They have
to find some way out for their aggression. It may be politics, it may be money,
it may be some other kind of ambition, but they become very aggressive.
And have you known this too -- or
not -- that if you want to earn money you will have to repress sex? If you don't
repress sex you will not have enough aggression left to fight in the market, to
compete with people. If you want to become a great politician you will have to
repress sex; otherwise, from where will you find this stupid energy to be a
politician? You have to repress sexuality so that energy starts becoming more
and more accumulated in you. And finding no natural way, it is ready to go into
any way, any channelisation where you want it to go.
A man who has repressed sex is not
uninterested in sex -- no, not at all. He is more interested than the ordinary
man. His whole interest is centered there. He is continuously afraid of sex,
afraid of beauty, afraid of bodies, afraid of his dreams. He cannot sleep well,
he cannot communicate well because everything reminds him of sex.
And it is not only that women... If
you repress sex toward women long enough you will start turning homosexual. Even
men will remind you of sex and nothing else. If camels can remind you of sex,
then why not men? People who repress sex are going to have great difficulties,
are going to be perverted. Men will remind you... everything by and by will
start having a sexual tinge and colour.
Beware of it.
Do you know that Alexander the
Great was a homosexual, Julius Caesar was a homosexual? And many other great
kings and generals have been homosexuals. And the reason? -- Continuously
fighting, continuously on the move, battling on the front women not available --
sex starts turning towards homosexuality. Soldiers -- people in the army, navy,
air force, start turning homosexual. Monks, nuns start being homosexual or
lesbian, because monks are not allowed any women in the monastery.
Now there are monasteries in Europe
where for a thousand years not a single woman has entered -- not even a small
baby of seven days old, no. Now what will happen there? A thousand monks in the
monastery... and once you enter in the monastery you are not allowed to get out
of it; you enter forever. Mount Athos is such a monastery. You enter once,
forever -- it is like the grave -- then you never come out of it. Sometimes
people come out of graves too, but nobody comes out of Mount Athos. And no woman
ever has crossed the threshold -- not even a small baby. The limit is seven days
-- a small baby more than seven days old is dangerous. What kind of people are
living there? Just think of an eight-day-old girl... These people must be great
MAHATMAS -- the same MAHATMAS scriptures talk about -- to whom damsels and
beautiful APSARAS come to distract. Now even an eight-day-old baby is not
allowed. It is against the code of the monastery.
When these thousand people live in
a complete 'boys' club', naturally the repressed sexuality starts turning into
homosexuality; nuns start turning into lesbians. This goes on. This has been so
down the ages. That's why I don't like MY ashram to be mono-sexual -- only men
or only women. I want men and women to mix and meet. I want this place to be
very natural, healthy, whole; only then can you go beyond it, otherwise not.
And the man who has gone beyond sex
is free from sex. To say that he has no interest in sex is also wrong. His
interest is not personal any more. He has no involvement, that is true, but he
is interested in everything -- in the flowers, in the birds, in the animals, in
the people; he is interested in everything. His interest is not personal. No
involvement of his own being, but he is interested in everything.
If such a man sees a couple looking
into each other's eyes, he will be happy. He will thank God that he has seen
love energy moving. He will BLESS this couple! He will say 'Go ahead. This is
the way. Enjoy these moments.' He will show no obsession this way or that. He
will not start thinking of possessing this woman and he will not start thinking
of how to escape from this situation, because he has no fear. He can bless the
couple.
It happens every day. Couples come
to me... Sometimes Indians are also there. They become very puzzled, because
Indians cannot think that any sage will give any advice about sex too. They
cannot conceive of it. They think a sage only talks about God, ONLY about God.
When I advise people on their ordinary life problems, Indians who have never
heard of Buddha advising anybody or Mahavir advising anybody even about their
sexual problems, feel very uneasy, embarrassed. They cannot understand what is
happening. They expect from me only advice about God, meditation and things like
that. I should not help a couple in their problems.
But how is this couple going to
become meditative, if this couple which is involved, entangled in sexuality, is
not helped to go beyond it? How is it possible some day for them to become
meditative? I have to take their whole life, and I take great interest in every
kind of problem. I get completely lost in their problems, I become completely
absorbed. I forget the whole world when somebody is facing me with his problem:
that problem is my whole world -- whatsoever the problem. Whether it is sex,
whether it is money, whether it is over-eating, whether it is body health,
meditation, God, prayer does not matter -- whatsoever it is, the person has a
problem which has to be solved, and I have to bring all my energy to solve it. I
am utterly interested in everything, because I am not afraid of anything. Why
should I not be interested?
But remember, the interest has a
totally different meaning. I am interested in a flower, I am interested in
beauty, I am interested in poetry, in music, in dance, I am interested in all
kinds of possibilities. And God too is interested, otherwise sex would have
disappeared long before. Why should sex continue? If MAHATMAS are right, then
God is wrong.
George Gurdjieff used to say that
your so-called MAHATMAS are all against God, and your so-called religions are
all against God. And he is right, he has something very significant to say
there. They are, because God goes on creating the world and God goes on creating
the world in such variety, in such richness, in all directions. dimensions. And
MAHATMAS are monotonous. They just simply do the JAPA, repeat 'Ram, Ram, Ram'...
go on repeating.
The life of a MAHATMA IS a very
poor life -- no richness, no inner variety, no dimensions to his being. He is
linear, one-dimensional.
The man who is free of sex has no
personal involvement in it, he has no desire for it. Not that he is against it,
just his desires have moved higher.
It is like a child. Once you were a
child and you used to play with coloured stones, used to collect shells and
stones on the sea beach. Then one day you became a grown-up, now you don't
collect. But if your child is collecting seashells and coloured stones, won't
you be able to understand him? Won't you show interest? Won't you say to the
child 'Good. This stone is beautiful. Where did you find it? Even I didn't find
such stones when I was young, and like you I was searching and exploring sea
beaches. You are fortunate.' You will not condemn the child. You will not say
'This is nonsense, rubbish . Throw these stones away! I know they mean nothing.'
You will show all interest. That is real grown-upness. If you start shouting at
the child, and you say 'This is nonsense and rubbish. Throw all these stones
away. Don't carry them, they will dirty your clothes, your pockets. Your pockets
will lose shape, this and that, and your mom will be very very angry. Throw them
away! I have known through my own experience that they are meaningless' that
simply shows you are not yet mature enough.
Maturity is mature enough ONLY when
it can accept the immature. Maturity is real maturity when it can not only
accept the immature but can bless you, with all the hopes that you will grow out
of it. Everybody grows, just time is needed.
You had a teddy bear or a toy that
you loved so much that there were days you could not sleep without it. You had
to carry it to bed, you had to carry it on journeys. Your parents were feeling a
little embarrassed that you have carried this big teddy bear with you, this big
toy, and 'You have become a big boy now, or a big girl. Stop it.' But you had to
carry it everywhere. And then one day suddenly something changed: the teddy bear
got lost. It remained for a few days in the comer of your room, then you threw
it out onto the rubbish heap. What happened? How did you get rid of it? You
became mature.
You have not repressed the desire,
you have not repressed your love affair with the teddy bear. You have simply
grown up: you have gone beyond.
Freedom from sex is not repression
of sex, it is the understanding of sex. And through understanding one goes
beyond it. But that does not mean that you will be angry and against and
antagonistic. You will be blissful, you will have a blessing for everybody. And
you will bless with the hope that some day they will also go beyond it.
Real religion has to be rooted in
the earth. Yes, real religion also has to rise towards the sun. It is like a
lotus flower -- rooted in the mud and rising towards the sun. The lotus has to
be freed from the mud, but the mud has not to be condemned at all, because the
mud is the nourishment. Your sex energy is the nourishment for your SAMADHI. It
is out of the mud of sex that the lotus of SAMADHI IS going to bloom. Never
repress it! Never be against it; rather, go deep into it with great clarity,
with great love. Go like an explorer. Search all the nooks and comers of your
sexuality, and you will be surprised and enriched and benefited.
Knowing your sexuality, one day you
will stumble upon your spirituality. Then you become free. Your energy has risen
high. Now sex is just like a toy. But you are not angry with other people who
are still playing with the toy. You will understand them too, you will have
compassion for them. You would like to help them go beyond, but you will not
condemn them and you will not want to throw them to hell to be punished. They
are not doing anything wrong.
Sex is not a sin. Nobody is
ever punished for sex. Nobody ever goes to hell for sex; otherwise God would be
responsible, not you. He has given it to you, you are born with it; you have not
created it. It is nothing like your invention, it is not like an atom bomb, it
is not like a bayonet, it is not like a sword, it is not like money, it is not
like politics -- these are inventions of man, of the ugly human mind. These
people will go to hell, certainly.
But sex is a God-given gift, and it
is a great seed. And in the seed is hidden SAMADHI. Once it starts sprouting and
finds the right soil, it will become a big tree. Millions of flowers will come
to it.
It is not only a child that is born
out of sex, it is out of sex that you will be reborn too! Sex is the generating
force, sex is the very source of creativity. It is out of sex that new life is
born. You will give birth to a child -- this is new life, God coming in another
garb, another manifestation, another incarnation of God in your child; but it
comes through sex. Just watch it. Sex must be immensely valuable -- God has
chosen it to be the passage for life.
What is more valuable than life?
What CAN be more valuable than life? God has chosen sex as the vehicle for life.
Life comes through sex, in sex, out of sex. And those who know, those who have
gone beyond say that another life, spiritual life, also comes through it. Not
only your child is born through it, you will be reborn through it: you will
become twice-born through it, you will resurrect out of it. It is life-giving
energy.
Sex has to be respected. Sex is
sacred. Sex is the very temple of God.
So I cannot say the man who is free
from sex has no interest, because sex is life. And sex is potential
spirituality. How can he be disinterested in it? Yes, he has no personal
interest in it. he has gone beyond it; but he is immensely interested. In fact
for a man who is free from sex his interest becomes very very great. Now, he is
interested in everything.
When you are obsessed with sex you
are not interested in anything. You are not interested in poetry, you are not
interested in music, you are not interested in beauty, you are only interested
in sex. And if sometimes you show interest in music, poetry, beauty, art, you
show interest only because some sexuality is there. You become interested in
poetry if it is sexual. You become interested in a picture, in a painting if it
is nude, pornographic. You become interested in the music if it excites you
sexually; otherwise you are not interested.
This is not interest in music -and
painting, this is interest in sex. That's why ninety-nine per cent of poetry,
music, painting and sculpture is sex-based, because ninety-nine per cent of
people don't want anything other than sex. Your films, your novels, your books
-- even your so-called religious books -- are all full of sexuality. Sometimes
it is in the name of condemnation, but they go on talking about the physical,
the sexual. Sometimes they are obscene.
The man who is free of sex, his
interest is also free of sex. His interest spreads to the whole of life.
Just the other day I was reading:
In a school, the teacher asked the
children -- small children 'How many stars do you see at night?'
One child said 'Thousands.'
Another child said 'Millions.'
And the third child said
'Trillions.'
And then the smallest boy in the
class stood up and said 'Three.'
The teacher asked 'Three? And
these, your friends, are seeing thousands, millions and trillions, and you see
only three?'
He said 'What to do? We've got a
very small window.'
Now the small window becomes the
frame. Only three stars...
You have a very small window
through which to look at life. That window is called sex -- only three stars.
When you are free of sex, you jump out of the window. The whole sky becomes
available to you. Those three stars are also still there but no longer
prominent. Lost, in so many stars... your interest becomes bigger, infinite. The
whole sky becomes your limit: that means there is no limit anymore.
A man who has attained to freedom
from sex is immensely interested in everything. Everything thrills him,
everything excites him to ecstasy, and everything reminds him of God.
Question 2
WHAT IS HYPERTENSION?
Hypertension is a state of mind
when you have been become too much focused on rationality and you have forgotten
your feelings. Hypertension comes out of an imbalance; too much trust in reason
is the basis of all hypertension. People who live in their heads become
hypertense. Relaxation comes through the heart. One should be capable of moving
easily from the head to the heart just as you move out of your house and inside
your house. One should be fluid between head and heart. These are the two shores
of the river that you are. You should not cling to one shore, otherwise life
becomes lopsided.
The West suffers very much from
hypertension, because it has forgotten the language of the heart, and only the
heart knows how to relax, because only the heart knows how to love. Only the
heart knows how to enjoy, celebrate. Only the heart knows how to dance and sing.
The head knows nothing of dance. the head condemns dance as stupid. The head
knows nothing of poetry, the head condemns poetry.
Do you know that one of the
greatest philosophers, Plato, thinking about his ultimate utopian republic, said
that no poet should be allowed there? In his republic, in his ultimate state of
society, poets should not be allowed. Why? -- because he is afraid of poets. He
says: Poets bring fantasies, poets bring dreams, poets bring confusion and
mysticism, and we don't want any of it. We want a very clear-cut, logical,
prosaic society. That society will be hypertense; everybody will be neurotic. In
Plato's republic -- if it ever happens... and there is every fear that it can
happen -- everybody will be a neurotic, and everybody will always be carrying
his psychoanalyst with him. Wherever he moves, he will have to carry his
psychoanalyst. That is already coming in the West.
I have heard...
In a New York street two small boys
were talking -- as they have always talked down the centuries, but what they
said was very new.
One boy said to the other 'My
psychoanalyst can lick your psychoanalyst any time.'
Small boys... They have always
talked that way: 'My father can lick your father' or 'My house is bigger than
your house' or 'My dog is stronger than your dog' -- a small child's beginning
of the ego. But 'My psychoanalyst can lick your psychoanalyst any time' -- this
is something new.
Three women were talking about
their children. One was saying 'He is the topmost in the class. He always comes
first.'
The second said 'That's nothing. My
child is only seven but he can play music like a Mozart, like a Wagner '
The third said 'That's nothing. My
child is only five and he goes to his psychoanalyst all alone.'
Hypertension is a state where you
have lost balance. You cannot bring your heart to function in your life; logic
has become all -- and logic remains superficial. Logic, when it becomes all,
only creates anxiety; it never gives any peace, it goes on bringing new
problems. It never solves any problem -- it cannot solve, it is not in its power
-- it only pretends, it only promises. It goes on saying 'I will deliver the
goods' but it never delivers. And then problems go on accumulating and you don't
know how to get out of the problems, because you don't know how to get out of
the head. You don't know how to play with children, how to love your woman, how
to go and have a talk with the trees, and sometimes have a dialogue with the
stars. You have forgotten all, you are no more a poet, you are no more an alive
heart.
And whenever any part of the body
is repressed, that part takes revenge. If another part of the mind is repressed,
THAT part takes revenge. And the heart is the MOST vital part, the MOST
fundamental part. One can live without the head, but one cannot live without
heart. The head is a little superficial, it is a kind of luxury, but the heart
is very essential. The head exists only in man, so it cannot be very essential.
Animals live without it and live perfectly well in a far more silent and
blissful way than man. Trees live without the head, and so do the birds and the
children and the mystics.
The head is superficial. It has a
certain function -- use it, but don't be used by it. Once you are being used by
it you will become anxious: anxiety will come and life will become nauseous. It
will just be a long stretched-out pain, and you will not find any oasis anywhere
in it; it will be a desert thing.
Remember, the essential has not to
be repressed. The non-essential has to follow the essential -- has to become its
shadow. You cannot deny ANYTHING without getting into trouble.
Listen to this anecdote:
One day a flying saucer landed in
Elsie Gumtree's garden... right in the middle of her summer bloomers, which
could have been quite painful if she had been wearing them. There was a whirring
sound, and a strange purple man appeared through the hatch in the side of the
saucer. Straight away he headed for Elsie's back door and knocked politely.
Elsie opened the door, and quickly
taking in the situation said 'Are you from the flying saucer?'
'Mm' replied the man, as though in
pain.
'Are you from Mars?' Elsie asked.
'Mm' went the man again, his face
contorted.
'How long did it take you to get
here? Ten years?' asked Elsie.
'Mm'
'Twenty years?'
'Mm' said the man, an agonised look
on his face.
'Twenty years? You've been all that
time in your flying saucer?'
'Mm.' nodded the man, furiously.
'What can I do for you?' asked
Elsie.
The little man opened his mouth,
and with great difficulty said 'Can I use your toilet, please?'
Deny anything and it becomes
overpowering. Now, for twenty years he has not been able to find a toilet and
you are asking nonsense questions. 'Where are you coming from?' and 'Who are
you?' and 'How many...?' How can he answer all these things? His denied part is
there with a vengeance.
Your heart has been denied for so
many lives that when it erupts it is going to create great chaos in your life.
First you suffer from the mind, its tensions, anxieties; and then you can suffer
from the explosion of the heart. That's what happens when a man breaks down.
First he suffers from the tense state of the mind, and then one day the heart
takes its revenge, erupts, and the man goes mad, goes berserk.
Both situations are bad. First the
sanity was too much -- that created the insanity. A really sane person is one
who can live between sanity and insanity in absolute balance. A really sane
person always has some insanity in him -- he accepts it. A really rational
person is one who respects irrationality too, because life is such. If you
cannot laugh because of your reason -- because 'laughter is ridiculous' -- then
you are bound for trouble, you are destined for trouble.
Yes, logic is good, laughter too is
good -- and laughter brings balance. It is good to be serious, it is good to be
non-serious too, and there should be a constant balancing.
Have you seen a tightrope walker?
He continuously balances himself. Sometimes he leans to the left with his staff,
and then he comes to a point where if he leans a single moment more, he will
fall. He immediately changes his balance, goes to the other side -- to the right
-- leans to the right. Then again a moment comes when one single moment more and
he will be gone; he again starts leaning to the left. That's how he proceeds:
leaning to the left, to the right, he keeps in between. That's the beauty --
leaning to the left and to the right, leaning toward both extremes, he keeps in
between.
If you want to keep yourself in
between you will have to lean toward both sides again and again. You are not to
choose. If you choose, you will fall. If you have chosen the head, you will
fall; you will hypertense. If you choose the heart and forget the head
completely, you will become -mad. And if you want to choose anyhow, if you want
to choose, then choose being mad. Choose the heart, because it is more
essential.
But I am not saying that you should
choose. If you insist and you say 'I HAVE to choose', then be mad rather than
just dry and sane. Be of the heart. Love, love madly; sing, sing madly; dance,
dance madly. That is far better than just becoming calculating, logical,
rational, and just suffering nightmares.
But I am not saying... it is not my
suggestion that you do that. My suggestion is to remain choiceless. 'Choiceless
awareness' is the key word. Remain choiceless, aware, and whenever you see that
something is going off-balance, lean to the other side. Bring the balance again,
and this is how one moves. Life is like tightrope walking.
Question 3
WHAT DID JESUS REALLY DO WITH MARY
MAGDALENE?
Shiva, no personal questions,
please.
Question 4
HOW CAN I STOP WANTING TO BE
SPECIAL?
Because you ARE special, and there
is no need to be special. You ARE special, you ARE unique -- God never creates
anything less than that.
Everyone is unique, utterly unique.
There has been no person like you before, and there will NEVER be a person like
you again. God has taken this form for the first time and the last time, so
there is no need to try to become special, you already are. If you are trying to
be special you will become ordinary. Your very effort is rooted in
misunderstanding. It will create confusion, because when you try to become
special you have taken one thing for granted -- that you are not special. You
have become ordinary already. You have missed the point.
Now, once you have taken it for
granted that you are ordinary, how can you become special? You will try this way
and that, and you will remain ordinary, because your base, your foundation is
wrong. Yes, you can go to the dressmaker and can find more sophisticated
dresses, you can have your hair style done again, you can use cosmetics; you can
learn a few things and become more knowledgeable, you can paint and start
thinking that you are a painter; you can do a few things, you can become famous
or notorious, but deep down you will know that you are ordinary. All these
things are on the outside. How can you transform your ordinary soul into an
extraordinary soul? There is no way.
And God has not given any way
because he never makes ordinary souls, so he could not think about your problem.
He HAS given you a special, extraordinary soul. He has never given it to
anybody. This is just made for you.
What I would like to say to you,
Shaila, is recognise your specialness. There is no need to get it, it is already
there -- recognise it. Go into your self and feel it. Nobody's thumbprint is
like yours -- not even the thumbprint. Nobody's eyes are like yours; nobody's
sound is like yours; nobody's flavour is like yours. You are absolutely
exceptional. There is not a double of you anywhere. Even two twins are different
-- howsoever alike they look, they are different. They go different ways, they
grow different ways; they attain to different kinds of individualities.
This recognition is needed.
You ask: HOW CAN I STOP WANTING TO
BE SPECIAL?
Just listen to the fact. Just go
into your being and see, and the effort to be special will disappear. When you
know that YOU ARE special, the effort will disappear. If you want me to give you
some technique so that you can stop being special, then that technique will
disturb. Again you are trying to do something, again you are trying to become
something. First you were trying to become special, now you are trying not to
become special. But trying... trying... improving in some way or other, but
never accepting the you that you are.
My whole message is: Accept the you
that you are, because God accepts it. God respects it, and you have not
respected your being yet. Be immensely happy that God has chosen you to be, that
God has chosen you to exist, to see his world, to listen to his music, to see
his stars, to see his people -- love and be loved -- what more do you want?
Rejoice! I say again and again rejoice in it! And in that very rejoicing, by and
by, it will explode in you like lightning that you are special.
But remember, that will not come as
an ego that you are special as against others. No, in that moment you will know
that everybody is special. The ordinary exists not.
So this is the criterion: If you
think I am special' -- more special than that man, more special than that woman
-- then you have not understood yet. It is the ego game. Special, not
comparatively; special, not in comparison with anybody -- special just as you
are.
A Zen Master was asked -- a
professor had come to see him -- and the professor asked 'Why am I not like you?
This is my desire. Why am I not like you? Why am I not silent like you? Why am I
not wise like you?'
The Master said 'Wait. Sit
silently. Watch. Watch me, and watch yourself. And when everybody else has gone,
if the question still remains, I will answer.'
And the whole day people were
coming and going, and disciples were asking, and the professor was getting very
very restless -- time was being wasted. And this man said 'When everybody is
gone...'
Then came evening and there was
nobody. And the professor said 'Now enough is enough. I have been waiting the
whole day. What about my question?'
And the moon was rising -- it was a
full moon night. And the Master said 'Haven't you got the answer yet?'
The professor said 'But you never
answered me.'
The Master laughed. He said 'I have
been answering many people the whole day. If you had watched you would have
understood. But come out. Let us go in the garden, the full moon is there in the
garden, and it is a beautiful night.' And the Master says to him 'Look at this
cypress tree' -- a big cypress tree, standing high, almost touching the moon.
The moon was intertwined in its branches -- 'and look at this small bush.'
But the professor said 'What are
you talking about? Have you forgotten my question?'
The Master said 'I am answering
your question. This bush and this cypress tree have lived for years in my
garden. I have never heard the bush asking the cypress tree "Why am I not
like you?" And I have not heard the cypress tree ask the bush "Why am
I not like you?" The cypress tree is the cypress tree, and the bush is the
bush; and they both are happy in being themselves.'
I am myself, you are you. The
comparison brings conflict. The comparison brings ambition, and the comparison
brings imitation. If you ask 'Why am I not like you?' then you will start trying
to BE like me, and that will be the undoing of your whole life: you will become
an imitator, a carbon copy. And when you are an imitator you will lose all
respect for yourself.
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father, your mother, your friend, your wife, your husband? How can you respect
your children if you have not respected yourself? And it is very rare to find a
person who respects himself.
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Why is it so rare? --
because you have been taught to imitate. From the very childhood you have been
told 'Become like Christ' or 'Become like Buddha.' But why? Why should you
become like Buddha? Buddha never became you. Buddha was Buddha. Christ was
Christ. Krishna was Krishna. Why should you become like Krishna? What wrong have
you committed, what sin have you committed that you should become like Krishna?
God never created another Krishna. He never created another Buddha, another
Christ -- never! Because he does not like to create the same things again and
again. He is a creator, he is not an assembly line -- one Ford comes, another
Ford, another Ford -- Ford cars go on coming, all alike, on the assembly line.
God is not an assembly line. He is an original creator: he never creates the
same.
And the same will not be valuable.
Just think: a Krishna walking again -- the same type of man. He will look like a
joker. He will only get some place in a circus, nowhere else, because he will be
repetitive. He will say the Gita again -- whether Arjuna is available or not,
whether the Mahabharata, that great war, is happening or not -- but he will have
to repeat his Gita. And he will walk in his clothes, and they will look very
odd.
Just think of Jesus amidst you
again. He will not fit! He will be out of date, he will be antique, he will be
useful only in a museum, nowhere else.
God never repeats. But you have
always been taught to become somebody else. 'Become somebody else -- the
neighbour's son... become like the neighbour's son. Look how intelligent he is.
Look... that girl, how gracefully she walks. Be like that!' You have always been
taught to BE LIKE SOMEBODY ELSE. Nobody has told you: BE YOURSELF, and be
respectful to your being; it is God's gift.
Never imitate -- that's what I say
to you. Never imitate. Be yourself -- that much you owe to God. Be yourself! Be
authentically yourself and then you will know that you are special. God has
loved you so much, that's why you are! That's why you are in the first place,
otherwise you would not have been. It is indicative of his tremendous love for
you.
But your specialness is not in
comparison with anybody else, it is not that you are special in comparison to
your neighbours, friends, your wife, husband. You are simply special because you
are alone. You are the only person just like you. In that respect, in that
understanding, efforts to become special will disappear.
All your efforts to become special
are like putting legs on a snake. You will kill the snake. You think... because
of compassion you are putting legs on the snake. 'Poor snake, how will he walk
without legs?' Just as if the snake has fallen in the hands of a centipede. And
the centipede has great compassion on the snake, he thinks 'Poor snake. I have
one hundred legs and he has none. How will he walk? He needs at least a few
legs.' And if he operates and puts a few legs on the snake he will kill the
snake. The snake is perfectly okay as he is, he need not have any legs.
You are perfectly okay as you are.
This is what I call respect towards one's own being. And to respect oneself has
nothing to do with ego, remember. To respect oneself is not self-respect. To
respect oneself is GOD'S respect! It is to respect the creator, because you are
just a painting -- his painting. Respecting the painting, you respect the
painter.
Respect, accept, recognise, and all
those foolish efforts to be special will disappear.
Question 5
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MIND
AND EGO? OSHO USES MIND WITHOUT EGO SO THEY CAN'T BE THE SAME. IS MIND ONLY
DANGEROUS WHEN IT IS WORKING ON THE PAST OR FUTURE? I WOULD BE HAPPY TO FIND NO
EGO, BUT I DON'T WANT TO DROP MY MIND LIKE A BANANA PEEL ON THE ROAD FOR OTHER
PEOPLE TO SLIP ON (AND/OR FOR BUFFALOS TO EAT).
Niraj, buffalos are not so foolish.
If you throw away your mind like a banana peel, no buffalo is going to eat it.
Yes, there is a possibility that
some man may swallow it -- that much stupidity exists only in man. Buffalos are
not interested in minds at all: they are perfectly okay, mindless.
But mind and ego are not
synonymous. Ego is an illness of the mind. Ego means an ill mind, non-ego means
a healthy mind. Ego is a constriction, a limitation on the mind. When the ego
disappears, mind becomes Mind with a capital M.
In Buddhist literature they use
mind in two ways: Mind with a small, lower case M, and Mind with a capital M.
The capital M Mind is cosmic mind: the ego has disappeared, the whole has taken
possession of you, you have surrendered. you are no more, God is. And the lower
case M mind is you, the ego. It is against God, it separates you.
It is like an earthen pot... You
take the earthen pot to the river, you fill the earthen pot with water, the pot
is underneath the water. The water inside the pot is the same, and that outside
of the pot is the same, but there is a wall -- an earthen wall, dividing. The
wall disappears... then again the inside of the pot and the outside of the pot
is one.
Ego is like a wall, an earthen wall
that surrounds you and divides you from God. The question is not of the mind,
the question is of the ego.
But you don't know any other mind,
you only know this ego-mind. So when I am talking to you and I say to you drop
the mind, I mean drop the ego. When you have dropped this mind, the ego-mind,
then the cosmic Mind arises in you. Then you start functioning not from your
own, you start functioning from the original source. Then God functions through
you.
Beware of the ego. Sometimes even
the idea of God can be used by the ego.
One man came to me. He had a big
suitcase with him. He opened the suitcase and there were many files. And he said
'Now, look. God comes every day to me in the night, and he gives me messages.
And in the middle of the night I have to write messages.' He was a Mohammedan,
and the Mohammedans were very angry, because he was saying 'The NEXT Koran is
descending on me, just as it descended one thousand years before on Mohammed. A
higher dispensation is coming to me.'
I looked in his files. They were
all rubbish! There was not a single word of any significance. But that man had
come to me, he wanted me to recognise that he was a prophet, that God had spoken
through him, that here was the proof.
And he said 'I know nobody else
will recognise me, but you will recognise me.'
Now he had come with great hope and
I felt great compassion for him. He was in a very very ill state, he was almost
schizophrenic. One part of his mind was befooling another part of the mind. One
part was saying things to the other part, and the other part was writing. No, he
was not deceiving anybody, he was himself deceived. But the ego was feeling very
good -- that God had chosen him to be a special messenger.
The ego can even play with the idea
of God. It can claim to be God, it can claim God's realisation. One has to watch
very carefully, because the ego and its games are very subtle.
It is related of Bernard Shaw that
he once opened his front door to find himself face to face with two earnest
young men, one of whom had some pamphlets in his hand.
'Who are you and what do you want?'
asked Shaw.
We're Jehovah's Witnesses' said one
of them.
'Really?' replied Shaw. 'I'm
Jehovah. How are we doing?'
Now he is simply joking, but this
is how the ego functions.
It happened in Baghdad that a man
was caught because he declared himself a prophet of God. He was thrown in jail.
After seven days the Caliph went to see the man. For seven days he had been kept
starving, had been beaten continuously and was tied to a pole, swollen,
scratched all over the body, very badly beaten, starving, dirty.
The Caliph asked him 'Now, what do
you think? Do you still think that you are the prophet of God? Because there is
only one God and there is only one prophet, Mohammed. So you take your statement
back, otherwise you will be killed.'
The man started laughing and he
said 'But when I was coming from God, when he appointed me as the prophet, he
told me "You will be tortured, people will beat you, just as in the old
days they have done with other prophets. They will insult you, they will kill
you, as they have done with Jesus." So your beating, this jail and all this
torture simply prove that I am a prophet. It does not disprove a thing. So I was
right! In fact I was thinking that so many days had passed and nobody was
beating me, and nobody was torturing me -- am I a prophet or not? You have
proved that I am a prophet!'
And just then another man who was
tied to another pole, started laughing very loudly.
And the Caliph asked 'Why are you
laughing? What is the matter with you?'
And the man said 'This man is a
liar. I myself AM GOD, and I never sent this man!' -- he had been caught one
month before because he had declared himself to be God.
And I am not saying that there have
not been people who have become God. Mansoor was right when he declared: ANA EL-HAQQ:
I am God. The seers of the Upanishads were right when they declared: AHAM
BRAHMASMI: I am God. Jesus is right when he says: My Father in heaven and I are
one and the same. If you have seen me you have seen my Father
But it is a very delicate matter,
because pretenders are there, egoists are there, ego-maniacs are there. You have
to be very careful. You have to watch, you have to see into yourself so no ego
starts claiming. When the ego has disappeared, when you have become just an
emptiness, a nothingness, then the voice of God starts floating through you.
That is cosmic mind.
Ego and mind are not synonymous. IN
YOU they are! Right now they are. But if ego is dropped, then a totally new
quality of mind arises in you which has nothing to do with you, which has
existed before you, which is eternity. That's what Jesus means when he says
'Before Abraham was, I am.' He is saying 'Abraham' as the ego, as the
personality. And when he says 'Before Abraham was, I am' he is using the words
'I am' as cosmic mind.
I can say to you 'Before Jesus was,
I am'. Then 'I' is no more used in the sense of ego, it is just a linguistic way
of saying that the eternal precedes the temporal, that the formless precedes the
form, that the nameless precedes the name, that the egoless precedes the ego.
You are right, mind and ego are not
the same. But don't get deceived by the idea. It can be dangerous, it can prove
fatal. In you they are the same.
Drop the ego -- just peel it like a
banana skin and throw it. And don't throw it on the road because, that's true,
somebody can slip on it. You have been slipping on it for so many lives. And
don't throw it on the road. As far as I know, no buffalo will eat it, but who
knows? Some buffalo may have become stupid through living with men too long and
may eat it and may get into trouble.
Question 6
ARE WE NOT PUNISHED FOR OUT SIN?
No, We are punished BY our sin, not
FOR our sin.
Sin itself is its punishment. You
over-eat, you suffer; you over-indulge, you suffer. It is not that the suffering
will come later on, that suffering will come as a result, no. Suffering comes in
the act itself. So let me tell it in this way: We are punished BY our sin, not
for our sin.
That FOR has created great
difficulties for man, because 'for' means 'in the future', maybe in the other
life. 'Who bothers about the future? And we will see when it comes if some ways
and means can be found to avoid it. Or we can always go to the priest and
confess, or we can go to the Ganges and take a bath and be relieved of the sin.
Or we can go to a saint and be blessed by him.' Some strategy can be found, but
I tell you, you are not punished FOR sin, you are punished BY sin. So there is
no way to get rid of it.
If you eat too much, you go against
nature, and immediately... the punishment. The punishment is instantaneous, it
is not afterwards; it is then and there, it is immediate. So nobody can avoid
it. If you want to avoid it. you have to be very very conscious not to commit
sin.
Sin is a kind of unconsciousness.
You become angry. In that very anger you suffer, not that you will suffer
afterwards. Anger is fire, anger is poison. It poisons your whole system: it
disturbs your health, it disturbs your mind, it disturbs your tranquility, it
disturbs your soul; and then it hangs with you for days together. The
disturbance has to settle again, and before it settles, you become angry again.
Then it becomes chronic. Then it hangs with you.
My approach is that in the very act
is the punishment, and in the very act is the reward, obviously. When you are
loving, there is heaven; when you are hateful, there is hell.
Question 7
I WANT TO SERVE PEOPLE. ISN'T THAT
RIGHT?
It depends. It depends on you. If
you have come home, if you have become that which is your destiny, if your own
problems have disappeared, if you don't have any more anxiety, any more desires,
any more unconsciousness, then there is no need to ask the question; service
will flow from you, it will overflow. It will be a constant sharing -- not
deliberate; it will be very natural, spontaneous. Wherever the need will arise
you will be in service. If somebody is drowning in the river, you will jump. If
somebody's house is on fire, you will rush with water. If somebody has fallen on
the road, you will help him to get back up. But all these things will not be
deliberate. Not that you will plan, not that you will seek for these situations,
not that you will go out of your house thinking 'Where to serve? How to serve
people?' You will live your life, and if some situation arises you will respond
to it, with I10 plan. You will never become a servant. You will always be of
service, but you will never become a servant.
These public servants are
mischievous people. Never become a public servant. These are the people who have
been creating trouble for man. And sometimes when you are a public servant, you
go on serving whether the other person likes it or not.
I have heard...
One school in Manchester had a
canal running alongside the playground. One day, two little boys came running
into the headmaster's office in a state of great agitation.
'Sir, sir' said the first one,
'Bobby Armstrong fell in the canal!'
'Good heavens l' said the
headmaster. 'Did you get him out?'
'Yes. sir.'
'Did you give him artificial
respiration?'
'We tried to, sir, but he kept
getting up and running away!'
I have heard about a missionary who
told his children in the Sunday School to help people.
One child asked 'How? What should
we do?'
So just as an example he said 'If
some old woman wants to cross the street, help her.'
After seven days, he asked next
Sunday 'Did you help somebody?'
Three hands were raised. He asked
the first 'What did you do?'
He said 'I helped one old woman
cross the street.'
The priest was very happy and said
'God will bless you. This is very good.' He asked the other 'What did you do?'
He said 'I also helped an old woman
cross the street.'
A little suspicion arose in the
priest's mind whether they both got two old women. But old women are there, they
can get them -- it is not such a big thing. He asked the third, and the third
also said 'I helped an old woman to cross the street.'
Then it was too much. He said 'You
all three got three old women?'
They said 'Who is saying three? It
was only one woman.'
The priest was more puzzled, he
said 'Then...? Three boys were needed to help the woman to cross?'
He said 'Even with three it was
difficult because she didn't want to cross. It was so difficult, sir, but we did
it ANYHOW! We carried her to the other side.'
Never become a deliberate public
servant. Service should come as a natural growth of your meditation, otherwise
you can be dangerous.
One man asked Buddha 'I would like
to serve people.' Buddha looked at him and became very sad.
He said 'But why are you looking so
sad? Why did you suddenly become so sad?'
Buddha said 'YOU ARE NOT. How can
you serve people? First be; otherwise, in the name of service, you will do some
harm. You are not yet beyond harm, you are carrying much poison in you. If you
start serving people your poison will spread.'
It happened:
The chaplain of a large London
hospital was doing his rounds of the wards when he came across a Chinese,
desperately ill, in a side ward. He was in an oxygen mask, and looked close to
death's door. The chaplain learned over him and said 'How are you feeling, old
chap?'
The reply was necessarily muffled;
however, it sounded so frantic and urgent that the chaplain asked him to repeat
it. But he could not understand what the unfortunate man was trying to tell him.
And then to his distress the Chinese, obviously suffering acutely, expired
before his very eyes. He was haunted by this last word from a poor, lonely man
in a foreign land, friendless and unable to communicate, so he sought out a
professor of Oriental languages and repeated the, man's last phrase as exactly
as he could remember it.
'Now' pleaded the chaplain what was
he trying to tell me? What did he say?'
'He said' the professor answered
"'You are standing on my oxygen pipe"!'
Question 8
OSHO, THEY SAY THAT WHEN DRUNK THE
ENGLISHMAN TENDS TO BOAST, THE IRISHMAN TO FIGHT, AND THE SCOTSMAN TO GO TO
SLEEP IN CASE HE'S ASKED TO BUY A ROUND OF DRINKS. NOW I WANT TO KNOW WHAT DO
YOU SAY ABOUT AN INDIAN?
There is no difficulty. The
question is very simple. When an Indian is drunk, he delivers a little spiritual
discourse -- minimum time limit ninety minutes.
OSHO - I Say Unto You Volume 2 Chapter
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ENERGY ENHANCEMENT
THE CORE ENERGY TECHNIQUES !!
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