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And the same similarity exists between transcendence of sex and suppression of sex.

Transcendence is going beyond sex -- and to go beyond one has to go through; sex has to be used as a ladder -- and suppression is falling below sex.

Suppression creates neurosis. Transcendence brings flowering -- flowering of all that is best in you, flowering of all that is your real being. It is the release of the hidden splendor.

The second question Question 2

OSHO,

YOU SAID RECENTLY THAT YOU LOVED WILHELM REICH. I HAVE STUDIED

AND WRITTEN ABOUT HIM FOR YEARS. WHILE YOUR IDEAS -- SEX EQUALS

ENERGY, LIVING IN THE NOW AND GOD IS LIFE -- AGREE WITH HIS, YOU GO

FAR BEYOND HIM. IN WHAT WAY WAS HE LIMITED?

Edward Mann, I too have read your book on Wilhelm Reich. I also remember you quoted me in that book.

Wilhelm Reich and my ideas have a certain superficial similarity, but remember, it is superficial. Wilhelm Reich is a thinker, not a meditator, and sometimes thinkers groping in the dark can find a few things, they can stumble upon a few things. But to have eyes is a totally different phenomenon.

Yes, once in a while you can find the door also by groping in the darkness -- even a blind man can find it -- but to have eyes and to have light and to go directly to the door without groping is a totally different phenomenon.

Wilhelm Reich is certainly appreciated by me, appreciated for the simple phenomenon that he is not a meditator yet he has stumbled upon something which only meditators can come across. And that is his limitation too: he is only a thinker. So what he says he cannot preach.

What he preaches he cannot practice. In fact he does just the opposite of it. His blindness has to be searched for in his life, not in his words.

Wilhelm Reich's wife writes about him that he was a most jealous man. Now that is impossible. If a man has transcended sex, then jealousy is impossible. And he was continuously talking about getting rid of possessiveness, jealousy, but about his wife he was very suspicious. Finally they had to separate, and the cause of separation was Wilhelm Reich.

He was meddling with all kinds of women. He was having many love affairs in the name of freedom, in the name of love, in the name of non-possessiveness, in the name of friendship and sharing, but the same was not allowed to his wife.

Even if he went outside his town, he would tell his friends to keep an eye on his wife. The wife of Wilhelm Reich is herself a psychoanalyst. This was impossible for her to understand.

But I can see why it happened -- he was only a thinker.

Thinkers are in a way cunning. For themselves they will find all kinds of excuses, but for others there will be a totally different standard. That's where he is limited. And because he Osho - The Goose is Out

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