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Chapter 5 - Perfectly imperfect
A month later the man returned, obviously satisfied with the results. "The pills are terrific!" he said. "I've been doing it three times a night."
"Wonderful," the doctor replied. "What does your wife say about your love- making now?"
"How should I know?" the fellow shrugged. "I haven't been home yet!" You ask me, Prasad:
WHAT IS YOUR SECRET?
In my life there is no secret -- or you can call it the open secret. I have nothing hidden: I don't live like a fist, I live like an open hand. Nothing is hidden, nothing is esoteric, nothing is secret; all is simple and plain.
You say:
YOU HAVE PUT MORE WOMEN IN CHARGE THAN IS REALLY POSSIBLE, AND
YET YOU HAVE REMAINED FREE AND LOVED BY THEM ALL.
The open secret is that you can be free only if you have put too many women around you.
Then they are so concerned with each other that they leave you absolutely alone; in fact they forget all about you! Their jealousies, their envies are enough to keep them occupied. If one wants to be really free of women, that's the only way. This is my open secret!
And they all love me for the simple reason that I am not possessed by anybody, nor do I possess anybody. If you possess some woman then there will be trouble, if you are possessed by some woman then there will be trouble. I don't possess anybody, I am not possessed by anybody. I go on sitting doing my own business
-- which is nothing -- and I keep the women going round and round. And they have so many problems, they can afford to forget all about me!
And you say:
YOU HAVE PUT MORE WOMEN IN CHARGE THAN IS REALLY POSSIBLE...
No, you don't know the limit. Even the sky is not the limit! When the new commune happens you will see: I will put so many women in charge that even if I die it will take you years to discover that the man is no longer there! They will make so much fuss and dance and love and all kinds of foolish things that you will not even come to know whether I am still here or gone.
And I have put them in charge because they are more pragmatic than men, they have a greater capacity to cope with reality, they are earth-bound. Man leans more towards the sky and the woman is rooted in the earth. It is a very pragmatic arrangement.
Osho - The Goose is Out 68
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