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Chapter 4 - Transcendence brings buddhahood
WHY DO INDIANS THINK OF SEX IN TERMS OF NEED INSTEAD OF FUN?
They don't know anything about fun, about playfulness. They are serious people
-- very holy, very spiritual. They are walking corpses. You cannot expect playfulness from them, you can expect only long faces.
You cannot live with saints for long. Even to be with a saint for twenty-four hours is a punishment; it is not a reward because within twenty-four hours he will make you so bitter towards life, he will make you so sad, he will make you so sour, he will make you feel so guilty, condemned... That is his only joy. Religious people only enjoy one thing: making everybody sad, taking away people's laughter.
They condemn me because I am teaching people laughter, I am teaching people love, I am teaching people how to rejoice in the moment, in the very ordinariness of life. Because there is no other kind of life anywhere, there is no other world, this is the only world! And we have to live THIS world. We have not to sacrifice this world for some other world.
I am not teaching sacrifice, I am not teaching asceticism, I am not teaching fasting, I am not teaching celibacy. I am teaching the celebration of life. And that's what they have been missing for thousands of years.
They cannot understand sex as fun; it is a misery. And if they cannot understand it as fun, they cannot understand it as prayer; that is impossible.
You say:
THEY ALSO THINK AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY HAVE TRANSCENDED
SEX, BUT IN REALITY IT HAS ONLY BEEN SUPPRESSED
Transcendence of sex is possible only when sex reaches to the flowering of
prayerfulness.
Before that, sex cannot be transcended. You can only jump beyond sex from that borderline.
But then it is not celibacy, it is simply the disappearance of the ego into the whole. It is not really transcendence of sex but becoming part of the whole orgasmic universe. It is reaching to the ultimate of union with the whole.
What are you doing when you are making love to a woman? You are trying to have a certain union with the opposite pole. For a moment the union happens -- rarely, because so many conditions have to be fulfilled. Unless all conditions are fulfilled you may simply go through the gestures of making love. Only once in a while are a man and woman really in tune
-- at-onement, attunement -- and then for a moment, the orgasmic joy.
What is orgasmic joy? The disappearance of the ego for a moment. But even a moment is tremendously significant, precious -- far more precious than any Kohinoor. The same thing happens on a deeper level in prayer. With prayer you are not trying to meet with the other person, but you are trying to meet with the universe. The other person has become just a window. You are no longer attached to the window frame. You are going through the window into the world of the stars, clouds, birds. You are moving beyond. Love teaches you how to go beyond the window and to search for the stars. Once you have taken flight, the window is left Osho - The Goose is Out
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