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Osho’s Divine Melody
Aug 1st
Unless you have known what love is, you have not known what melody is. It is the meeting, orgasmic meeting, of death and life. Unless love is known, you have missed. You were born, you lived, and you died – but you missed. You missed tremendously, you missed utterly, you missed absolutely – you missed the interval in between. That interval is the highest pinnacle, the peak experience. Kabir calls it the divine melody.
To attain it, there are four steps to be remembered:
Let these four steps become your whole religion, your whole Torah – all else is just commentary:
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Be here now, just this moment: you see the beauty of it? This very moment the benediction is here, God is here. When you are silent he speaks, when you are listening he sings.
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And learn to transform your poisons into honey, so all barriers are destroyed.
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Then third, start sharing: whatsoever you have, share it. Share your beauty, share your song, share your life. In sharing, you will be enriched. Don’t hoard. The moment you start hoarding you are going against God. The moment you start hoarding you are trying to depend on your own self; you have lost trust in life. Give it! As life has given it to you, give it – more will be coming.
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And fourth, be nothing. Nothing is the source of all, nothing is the source of infinity, nothing is God. Nothing means Nirvana. Be nothing – and in being nothing, you will have attained to the whole. In being something, you will miss; in being nothing, you will arrive home.
This whole existence is divine. Love the trees if you want to know anything about the forest. Love people if you want to know anything about God. Each particular manifestation can become a window, a door. Don’t be obsessed too much by words – the word ‘god’ is not God, the word ‘love’ is not love, and the word ‘fire’ of course is not fire. Drop words, and move more and more towards the existential.
Feel more, rather than thinking. Through feeling, your prayer will arise and through feeling, you will be dissolved one day. And when you are dissolved, God is.
(Osho – The Divine Melody #9)
Osho’s advice
Mar 30th
If you can encounter any problem face to face, directly, it disappears.
In the inner world, to know what a problem is, to know exactly what it is, to diagnose it – is to treat it. There is no other medicine in the inner world. A problem only exists if you go on suppressing it. If you don’t allow it to be confronted, it exists. And people go on piling up many problems, and then they are always in a hurry. In their hurry they are trying to evade; because if they rest, sit down, they will have to face them. OSHO
Inner Smile
When: Whenever you are sitting with nothing to do.
Step 1: Breathe From the Mouth
“Relax the lower jaw and let your mouth open just slightly. Start breathing from the mouth, but not deeply. Just let the body breathe so it becomes more and more shallow. And when you feel that the breath has become very shallow and your mouth is open and jaw relaxed, your whole body will feel very relaxed.
Step 2: Feel a Smile
“In that moment, start feeling a smile — not on your face but all over your being — and you will be able to. It is not a smile that comes on the lips; it is an existential smile that spreads just inside. Try and you will know what it is, because it cannot be explained. No need to smile with your lips on your face but just as if you are smiling from the belly, the belly is smiling.
“And it is a smile, not a laugh, so it is very very soft, delicate, fragile — like a small rose opening in the belly and the fragrance spreading all over the body.
“Once you have known what this smile is, you can remain happy for twenty-four hours a day. And whenever you feel that you are missing that happiness, just close your eyes and catch hold of that smile again, and it will be there. In the daytime as many times as you want, you can catch hold of it. It is always there.”
Losing control / premature ejaculation
Jan 1st
One of the more common reasons that male clients come to see me, has to do with “premature ejaculation.” Surprisingly, many men feel that they are the exception in this, rather than the norm. There is also a fair amount of uncertainty on when one should tag on the label - as in how premature is premature?
Looking at the word premature, it implies being not yet mature – or ripe. In that sense, it would be premature to end something that you want to continue enjoying. Unfortunately for most couples, orgasmic release generally ends things. This sense of “losing control” can be frustrating and disappointing – not at all what one wants to add into the mix of concerns we already have to deal with. So why is this chase and avoidance causing so much distress?
When it comes to sex, most people expect things to ultimately climax in “an orgasm.” I remember a few years ago how hard I used to have to work to arrive at this desired outcome. And to tell you a secret, it wasn’t just my orgasm that seemed hard to come by – so to speak. One of the the things that spurred me into exploring sexuality with such intensity, was my frustration at the way sex seemed so not what I felt in my gut that it could be. In fact I left my marriage at a cost to all I believed and trusted, because I reached a point where I knew that the sex was just never going to change and I couldn’t face living with it the way it was.
A lot of what I love about meditative sex is that orgasmic release is no longer the peak moment. In fact chasing orgasm or it’s opposite – trying to delay or avoid one – can become such a focal point that “the moment” is lost. When you drop the desire for building tension in order to explode that tension out again, you step into the bliss of being. You find that you’re now free to enjoy fully and intensely within a space of deep relaxation.
More from Osho Tarot
Feb 1st
When you are alone you are not alone, you are simply lonely–and there is a tremendous
difference between loneliness and aloneness. When you are lonely you are thinking of the other, you are missing the other. Loneliness is a negative state. You are feeling that it would have been better if the other was there–your friend, your wife, your mother, your beloved, your husband. It would have been good if the other was there, but the other is not. Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive. It is a presence, overflowing presence. You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
Osho The Discipline of Transcendence Volume 1, Chapter 2
Commentary:
When there is no “significant other” in our lives we can either be lonely, or enjoy the freedom that solitude brings. When we find no support among others for our deeply felt truths, we can either feel isolated and bitter, or celebrate the fact that our vision is strong enough even to survive the powerful human need for the approval of family, friends or colleagues. If you are facing such a situation now, be aware of how you are choosing to view your “aloneness” and take responsibility for the choice you have made.
The humble figure in this card glows with a light that emanates from within. One of Gautam Buddha’s most significant contributions to the spiritual life of humankind was to insist to his disciples, “Be a light unto yourself.” Ultimately, each of us must develop within ourselves the capacity to make our way through the darkness without any companions, maps or guide.
Lost in the jungle
Dec 4th
From Osho tarot
The joy of love is possible only if you have known the joy of being alone, because then only do you have something to share. Otherwise, two beggars meeting each other, clinging to each other, cannot be blissful. They will create misery for each other because each will be hoping, and hoping in vain, that “The other is going to fulfill me.” The other is hoping the same. They cannot fulfill each other. They are both blind; they cannot help each other.
I have heard about a hunter who got lost in the jungle. For three days he could not find anybody to ask for the way out, and he was becoming more and more panicky–three days of no food and three days of constant fear of wild animals. For three days he was not able to sleep; he was sitting awake on some tree, afraid he may be attacked. There were snakes, there were lions, there were wild animals.On the fourth day early in the morning, he saw a man sitting under a tree. You can imagine his joy. He rushed, he hugged the man, and he said, “What joy!” And the other man hugged him, and both were immensely happy. Then they asked each other, “Why are you so ecstatic?”
The first said, “I was lost and I was waiting to meet somebody.” And the other said, “I am also lost and I am waiting to meet somebody. But if we are both lost then the ecstasy is just foolish. So now we will be lost together!”
That’s what happens: you are lonely, the other is lonely–now you meet. First the honeymoon: that ecstasy that you have met the other, now you will not be lonely anymore. But within three days, or if you are intelligent enough, then within three hours… it depends on how intelligent you are. If you are stupid, then it will take a longer time because one does not learn; otherwise the intelligent person can immediately see after three minutes: “What are we trying to do? It is not going to happen. The other is as lonely as I am. Now we will be living together–two lonelinesses together. Two wounds together cannot help each other to be healed.”
We are part of each other–no man is an island. We belong to an invisible but infinite continent. Boundless is our existence. But those experiences happen only to people who are self-actualizing, who are in such tremendous love with themselves that they can close their eyes and be alone and be utterly blissful. That’s what meditation is all about.
Meditation means being ecstatic in your aloneness. But when you become ecstatic in your aloneness, soon the ecstasy is so much that you cannot contain it. It starts overflowing you. And when it starts overflowing you it becomes love.
Meditation allows love to happen. And the people who have not known meditation will never know love. They may pretend that they love but they cannot. They will only pretend–because they don’t have anything to give, they are not overflowing. Love is a sharing. But before you can share, you have to have it! Meditation should be the first thing.
Meditation is the center, love is the circumference of it. Meditation is the flame, love is the radiation of it. Meditation is the flower, love is the fragrance of it.
Osho Meditation in Cape Town
Dec 2nd
Dear friends
It would be great to see you on Sunday
LATIHAN Swaying with the divine
Sufi Sunday Retreat
Under the ancient Oak tree in a sunny natural hidden spot somewhere in the magnificent table mountain nature reserve, next to the flowing river he’s waiting for you … will you be taken?
Latihan is a sufi meditation of surrender soft dance prayer and love, being possessed by the divine
Please reserve your place on time and if you chose to participate make sure that you arrive 10 min before.
Sunday 14 December 13.00- 17.00
Venue: Silvermine Nature reserve Cape Town
e-mail or SMS for directions
Bring: loose clothes, cushion, mat, swim-suit. There is a stream to dip in. Also bring a little food to share.
Cost Free
Booking essential
Love and light Prasado
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Forget relationship and learn how to relate
Nov 11th
From Osho:
Forget relationships and learn how to relate. Once you are in a relationship you start taking each other for granted. That’s what destroys all love affairs. The woman thinks she knows the man, the man thinks he knows the woman. Nobody knows either. It is impossible to know the other, the other remains a mystery. And to take the other for granted is insulting, disrespectful.
To think that you know your wife is very very ungrateful. How can you know the woman? How can you know the man? They are processes, they are not things. The woman that you knew yesterday is not there today. So much water has gone down the Ganges; she is somebody else, totally different. Relate again, start again, don’t take it for granted.
And the man that you slept with last night, look at his face again in the morning. He is no more the same person, so much has changed. So much, incalculably much, has changed. That is the difference between a thing and a person. The furniture in the room is the same, but the man and the woman, they are no more the same. Explore again, start again. That’s what I mean by relating.
Relating means you are always starting, you are continuously trying to become acquainted. Again and again, you are introducing yourself to each other. You are trying to see the many facets of the other’s personality. You are trying to penetrate deeper and deeper into his realm of inner feelings, into the deep recesses of his being. You are trying to unravel a mystery which cannot be unraveled.
That is the joy of love: the exploration of consciousness. And if you relate, and don’t reduce it to a relationship, then the other will become a mirror to you. Exploring him, unawares you will be exploring yourself too. Getting deeper into the other, knowing his feelings, his thoughts, his deeper stirrings, you will be knowing your own deeper stirrings too. Lovers become mirrors to each other, and then love becomes a meditation.
Uncomfortable
Aug 26th
It’s sometimes quite difficult to translate my personal understanding and the freedom I enjoy sexually, into user-friendly techniques. It took me a long time to even begin to grasp what some of this stuff was about. It has crept in slowly from many angles and through numerous rich and diverse experiences that I’ve risked experimenting with. It hasn’t been easy or fun all the way. I’m immensely thankful for the people who have crossed my path over the last few years who have enriched my life through what they know, through what they have passed on to me or simply through them being who they are and in that way reflecting to me what is possible.
Osho’s words arrived in my mailbox this morning and spoke quite profoundly to me of this weird paradox of understanding versus not. I hope it speaks to some of you too, and helps to ease your way:
You come to me seeking knowledge. You want set formulas so that you can cling to them. I don’t give you any. In fact, if you have any I take them away. By and by, I destroy your certainty. By and by, I make you more and more hesitant. By and by, I make you more and more insecure.
That is the only thing that has to be done. That’s the only thing a master needs to do! To leave you in total freedom. In total freedom, with all the possibilities opening, nothing fixed… you will have to be aware. Nothing else is possible.
Osho
Relating
Jun 8th
I’ve reached a place where I prefer to relate rather than to be in relationship. Osho speaks of the verb relating versus the noun of a relationship. If you are in a relationship with someone you have to manage this 3rd entity. There’s you, the other and “the relationship.” You are you, and you have feelings and thoughts and you engage with the other person, but then you get into a relationship and all the common ideas about what a relationship means, arise. Suddenly you’re no longer free in the way you relate to this person because you’re bound by the rules of “relationship” that are external and based on the common beliefs that others have made up, which are in turn based on fears and traditions and value systems that may not be relevant to you.
The staus quo creeps in quite subtly and it takes awareness to detect these influences which can unconsciously sabotage your relating to someone. They’re very often counter to the true expression of love. Love frees the other to be who they are, but relationship demands that you each become who the other person wants you to be. How limiting is that?! Your natural and spontaneous life-force gets exchanged for a mind-created idea of how you should be. Do we want more shoulds in our lives? Can we even live up to all the shoulds that are there already? When we drop the idea of shoulds, we step into the freedom of “I am.” Right now, I am this – and I live it. Tomorrow or in the next moment I don’t have a set of rules as to who I should be or how I should live. I simply tap into my authentic self-expression which springs up from the well in the core of my being and which is determined by my own uniqueness. It’s a great joy to be free to live and love within that, and to relate to others with a sense of adventure in discovering their authentic Being.
Relating means you are always starting, you are continuously trying to become acquainted. Again and again, you are introducing yourself to each other. You are trying to see the many facets of the other’s personality. You are trying to penetrate deeper and deeper into his realm of inner feelings, into the deep recesses of his being. You are trying to unravel a mystery which cannot be unraveled. That is the joy of love: the exploration of consciousness. OSHO
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Life can be tough.
May 20th
And then the takkie must hit the turf …
I’ve been facing quite a challenge the last few days – with someone who seemed an ally but then became antagonistic. It’s been affecting my work and my inner peace. The situation involved a legal issue as well. Part of me felt I needed to apply the truths I teach and to love my way around this obstacle, and another part of me was seeing the opportunity to step out in the strength of my inner masculine and not allow myself to be swamped by another person’s onslaught. This is an old and familiar struggle for me when I find myself in conflict situations.
I’ve been so wonderfully supported by friends and loved ones but still I needed to find my own truth in this issue. I was fortunate to have two opportunities today, to fall deeply into a soft meditative space and to feel all the “eina” and the contraction melt out of my body. A beautiful peace descended on me and I felt a lightness of heart returning. I really don’t know what caused it although I do believe that the love of others in my direction had a role to play as well.
The situation is still not resolved but I just read an amazing tale that has further strengthened me. It holds all the answers for where I must go next. I hope it means something to some of you as well:
Your question was raised before Gautam Buddha, because he was going to initiate a murderer into sannyas — and the murderer was no ordinary murderer. Rudolf Hess is nothing compared to him. His name was Angulimal. Angulimal means a man who wears a garland of human fingers.
He had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people; from each single person he would take one finger so that he could remember how many he had killed and he will make a garland of all those fingers. In his garland of fingers he had nine hundred and ninety-nine fingers — only one was missing. And that one was missing because his road was closed; nobody was coming that way. But Gautam Buddha entered that closed road. The king had put guards on the road to prevent people, particularly strangers who didn’t know that a dangerous man lived behind the hills. The guards told Gautam Buddha, “That is not the road to be used. You will have to take a little longer route, but it is better to go a little longer than to go into the mouth of death itself. This is the place where Angulimal lives. Even the king has not the guts to go on this road. That man is simply mad.
“His mother used to go to him. She was the only person who used to go, once in a while, to see him, but even she stopped. The last time she went there he told her, `Now only one finger is missing, and just because you happen to be my mother…I want to warn you that if you come another time you will not go back. I need one finger desperately. Up to now I have not killed you because other people were available, but now nobody passes on this road except you. So I want to make you aware that next time if you come it will be your responsibility, not mine.’ Since that time his mother has not come.”
The guards said to Buddha, “Don’t unnecessarily take the risk.” And do you know what Buddha said to them? Buddha said, “If I don’t go then who will go? Only two things are possible: either I will change him, and I cannot miss this challenge; or I will provide him with one finger so that his desire is fulfilled. Anyway I am going to die one day. Giving my head to Angulimal will be at least of some use; otherwise one day I will die and you will put me on the funeral pyre. I think that it is better to fulfill somebodies desire and give him peace of mind. Either he will kill me or I will kill him, but this encounter is going to happen; you just lead the way.”
The people who used to follow Gautam Buddha, his close companions who were always in competition to be closer to him, started slowing down. Soon there were miles between Gautam Buddha and his disciples. They all wanted to see what happened, but they didn’t want to be too close.
Angulimal was sitting on his rock watching. He could not believe his eyes. A very beautiful man of such immense charisma was coming towards him. Who could this man be? He had never heard of Gautam Buddha, but even this hard heart of Angulimal started feeling a certain softness towards the man. He was looking so beautiful, coming towards him. It was early morning…a cool breeze, and the sun was rising…and the birds were singing and the flowers had opened; and Buddha was coming closer and closer.
Finally Angulimal, with his naked sword in his hand, shouted, “Stop!” Gautam Buddha was just a few feet away, and Angulimal said, “Don’t take another step because then the responsibility will not be mine. Perhaps you don’t know who I am!”
Buddha said, “Do you know who you are?”
Angulimal said, “This is not the point. Neither is it the place nor the time to discuss such things. Your life is in danger!”
Buddha said, “I think otherwise — your life is in danger.”
That man said, “I used to think I was mad — you are simply mad. And you go on moving closer. Then don’t say that I killed an innocent man. You look so innocent and so beautiful that I want you to go back. I will find somebody else. I can wait; there is no hurry. If I can manage nine hundred and ninety-nine…it is only a question of one more, but don’t force me to kill YOU.”
Buddha said, “You are absolutely blind. You can’t see a simple thing: I am not moving towards you, you are moving towards me.”
Angulimal said, “This is sheer craziness! Anybody can see that you are moving and I am standing on my rock. I have not moved a single inch.”
Buddha said, “Nonsense! The truth is, since the day I became enlightened I have not moved a single inch. I am centered, utterly centered, no movement. And your mind is continuously moving round and round in circles…and you have the guts to tell to me to stop. You stop! I have stopped long ago.”
Angulimal said, “It seems you are impossible, you are incurable. You are bound to be killed. I will feel sorry, but what can I do? I have never seen such a mad man.”
Buddha came very close, and Angulimal’s hands were trembling. The man was so beautiful, so innocent, so childlike. He had already fallen in love. He had killed so many people…. He had never felt this weakness; he had never known what love is. For the first time he was full of love. So there was a contradiction: the hand was holding the sword to kill the person, and his heart was saying, “Put the sword back in the sheath.”
Buddha said, “I am ready, but why is your hand shaking? — you are such a great warrior, even kings are afraid of you, and I am just a poor beggar. Except the begging bowl, I don’t have anything. You can kill me, and I will feel immensely satisfied that at least my death fulfills somebody’s desire; my life has been useful, my death has also been useful. But before you cut my head I have a small desire, and I think you will grant me a small desire before killing me.”
Before death even the hardest enemy is willing to fulfill any desire.
Angulimal said, “What do you want?”
Buddha said, “I want you just to cut from the tree a branch which is full of flowers. I will never see these flowers again; I want to see those flowers closely, feel their fragrance and their beauty in this morning sun, their glory.”
So Angulimal cut with his sword a whole branch full of flowers. And before he could give it to Buddha, Buddha said, “This was only half the desire; the other half is, please put the branch back on the tree.”
Angulimal said, “I was thinking from the very beginning that you are crazy. Now this is the craziest desire. How can I put this branch back?”
Buddha said, “If you cannot create, you have no right to destroy. If you cannot give life, you don’t have the right to give death to any living thing.”
A moment of silence and a moment of transformation…the sword fell down from his hands. Angulimal fell down at the feet of Gautam Buddha, and he said, “I don’t know who you are, but whoever you are, take me to the same space in which you are; initiate me.”
By that time the followers of Gautam Buddha had come closer and closer. Seeing that now Gautam Buddha was standing in front of Angulimal, there was no problem, no fear, although he needed only one finger. They were all around and when he fell at Buddha’s feet they immediately came close. Somebody raised the question, “Don’t initiate this man, he is a murderer. And he is not an ordinary murderer; he has murdered nine hundred and ninety-nine people, all innocent, all strangers. They have not done any wrong to him. He had not even seen them before!”
Buddha said again, “If I don’t initiate him, who will initiate him? And I love the man, I love his courage. And I can see tremendous possibility in him: a single man fighting against the whole world. I want this kind of people, who can stand against the whole world. Up to now he was standing against the world with a sword; now he will stand against the world with a consciousness which is far sharper than any sword. I told you that murder was going to happen, but it was not certain who was going to be murdered — either I was going to be murdered, or Angulimal. Now you can see Angulimal is murdered. And who I am to judge?”
He initiated Angulimal.
The question is not whether anybody is worthy or not. The question is whether you have the consciousness, the abundance of love — then forgiveness will come out of it spontaneously. It is not a calculation, it is not arithmetic.
Life is love, and living a life of love is the only religious life, the only life of prayer, peace, the only life of gratitude, grandeur, splendor.
Osho: The Great Pilgrimage: From Here to Here, chapter 24
On Death
Apr 28th
Sounds a morbid topic for a site about love and touch and sex and relationships, doesn’t it :) Well I’m not known for being conventional, so bear with me on this one.
What I’ve been learning in the last while, has much to do with death. I attend a weekly bliss-dance class – something I can highly recommend to all of you if you’re keen to explore your depths as well as venture into some very yummy intimacy play with others – and one of the themes we recently danced was with death. Again, that may seem strange, but in fact it was incredibly liberating. We explored going deeply into a sense of our own death that will surely one day arrive. We tend to live as if that isn’t so.
Many of our avoidance’s and ego games have a lot to do with not wanting to “loose ourselves” which is really what happens in death. Pride and ego are all about preserving that thing we think of ourselves as. In fact, that which we desperately strive to preserve is our pitiful (excuse me) story about who we are. It’s shrunk down into an image of this persona we have formed in our heads and which operates out there in the world. Other people buy into it in different ways but often others don’t see it in the same way that we do and that offends and upsets us. That’s when arguments start, as we desperately attempt to protect or defend the image of ourselves that we hold so dear.
As you read the passage below, see if you can hear a different idea about life and death. It’s a delightful liberation to actively embrace your pending death reality and in so doing, to welcome more living. Your living also then touches a new level of being as you lay aside the idea that you are your story or your body. You are, but you’re also so much more than that. This is partly what we explore reaching into through tantric practise. I invite you to join in that dance:
If you become acquainted with death through love and meditation, by and by you will
see that life and death are two aspects of the same coin.Then you are not worried. Then you don’t choose. Then you live a life of choice-less
awareness. Then all is the same.If you choose life you have chosen death. If you avoid death you will avoid life -
so there is no point in choosing, and there is no point in avoiding.Osho
Innocent Joy in sex
Apr 23rd
Oh how I love reading Osho. The language is a little stilted but he hits the bulls-eye so perfectly! This is a very long piece but it’s filled with golden nuggets. He speaks of the way that Tantra is about sex – not for glorifying sex for the sake of sex, but to restore the balance that was lost when sex became labelled evil. I love how he speaks of making war and killing by the sword, as being a metaphor for the act of penetration. How true is that?! And think the circle turns the other way too – when men become fixated with war and killing, they penetrate with a kind of aggressive intensity. And women feel that. It’s quite startling. But then they get used to it and they start to believe that because the porn-stars seem to like it, that that is the way to have sex. Tantra restores the loving and when the heart is soft and open, there’s no more need for rough sex. Gradually the body restores it’s natural sensitivity and aliveness so that the slightest tremor is felt all over the body. Shivers and shudders echo through the system and the lightest breath becomes ecstatic. Enjoy the article.
Zen has no belief-system about anything, and that includes sex too — Zen says nothing about it. And that should be the ultimate thing. Tantra has an attitude about sex. The reason? — it tries to redress what the society has done. Tantra is medical. The society has repressed sex; Tantra comes as a remedy to help you redress balance. You have leaned too much to the left; Tantra comes and helps you to lean to the right. And to redress the balance sometimes you have to lean too much to the right, only then the balance is gained.
Have you not seen a rope walker, a tightrope walker? He carries a staff in his hand to keep balance. If he feels he is leaning too much to the left, he immediately starts leaning to the right. Then again he feels that now he has leaned too much to the right, he starts leaning towards the left. This is how he keeps in the middle.
Tantra is a remedy.
The society has created a repressive mind, a life-negative mind, an anti-joy mind. The society is very much against sex. Why is the society so much against sex? — because if you allow people sexual pleasure, you cannot transform them into slaves. It is impossible — a joyous person cannot be made a slave. That is the trick. Only sad people can be turned into slaves. A joyous person is a free person; he has a kind of independence to him.
You cannot recruit joyous people for war. Impossible. Why should they go to war? But if a person has repressed his sexuality he is ready to go to war, he is eager to go to war, because he has not been able to enjoy life. He has become incapable of enjoying, hence has become incapable of creativity. Now he can do only one thing — he can destroy. All his energies have become poison and destructive. He is ready to go to war — not only ready, he is hankering for it. He wants to kill, he wants to destroy.
In fact, while destroying human beings he will have a vicarious joy of penetrating. That penetrating could have been in love and would have been beautiful. When you penetrate a woman’s body in love, it is one thing. It is spiritual. But when things go wrong and you penetrate somebody’s body with a sword, with a spear, it is ugly, it is violent, it is destructive. But you are searching for a substitute for penetration.
If society is allowed total freedom about joy, nobody will be destructive.
People who can love beautifully are never destructive. And people who can love beautifully and have the joy of life will not be competitive either. These are the problems.
That’s why primitive people are not so competitive. They are enjoying their life. Who bothers to have a bigger house? Who bothers to have a bigger balance in the bank? For what? You are happy with your woman and with your man and you are having a dance of life. Who wants to sit in the marketplace for hours and hours and hours, day in, day out, year in, year out, hoping that in the end you will have a big bank balance and then you will retire and enjoy? That day never comes. It can’t come, because the whole life you remain an ascetic.
Remember, the business people are ascetic people. They have devoted everything to money.
Now a man who knows love and has known the thrill of love and the ecstasy of it will not be competitive.
He will be happy if he can get his daily bread. That is the meaning of Jesus’ prayer: “Give us our daily bread.” That is more than enough. Now Jesus looks foolish. He should have asked, “Give us a bigger bank balance.” He asks only for the daily bread? A joyous man never asks for more than that. The joy is so fulfilling.
It is only unfulfilled beings who are competitive, because they think life is not here, it is there. “I have to reach to Delhi and become the president,” or to the White House and become this or that. “I have to go there, joy is there” — because they know here there is no joy. So they are always on the go, go, go, go. They are always on the go, and they never reach. And the man who knows the joy, is here. Why should he be going to Delhi? For what? He is utterly happy herenow. His needs are very small. He has no desires. He has needs certainly, but no desires. Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted.
Now this whole society depends on one thing and that is sex repression. Otherwise the economy will be destroyed, sabotaged. War will disappear and with it the whole war machinery, and the politics will become meaningless and the politician will no longer be important. Money will not have value if people are allowed to love. Because they are not allowed to love, money becomes the substitute, money becomes their love. So there is a subtle strategy.
Sex has to be repressed, otherwise this whole structure of the society will fall immediately.
Only love released into the world will bring revolution. Communism has failed, fascism has failed, capitalism has failed. All ‘isms’ have failed because deep down they are all sex repressive. On that point there is no difference — no difference between Washington and Moscow, Beijing and Delhi — there is no difference at all. They all agree upon one thing — that sex has to be controlled, that people are not to be allowed to have innocent joy in sex.
To redress the balance comes Tantra; Tantra is a remedy. So it emphasizes sex too much. The so-called religions say sex is sin and Tantra says sex is the only sacred phenomenon. Tantra is a remedy. Zen is not a remedy. Zen is the state when the illness has disappeared; and of course, with the illness, the remedy too. Once you are cured of your illness you don’t go on carrying the prescription and the bottle and the medicine with you. You throw it. It goes to the dustbin.
Ordinary society is against sex; Tantra comes to help humanity, to give sex back to humanity. And when the sex has been given back, then arises Zen. Zen has no attitude.
Zen is pure health.
osho-The Diamond Sutra, #2
An Ocean of Love
Apr 22nd
Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy, as if you are in an ocean of love.
Create vibrations of love energy around you. And you will start feeling immediately that something is happening, something in your aura is changing, something around your body is changing. A warmth is arising around your body… a warmth like deep orgasm.
You are becoming more alive. Something like sleep is disappearing. Something like awareness is arising.
Osho
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Eckhart Tolle
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