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28 November 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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Anand means bliss, chandan means sandalwood. Sandalwood is very symbolic in the East because when one reaches one's innermost core a certain fragrance arises in one's own being which is very similar to sandalwood, not exactly the same but almost. So sandalwood became sacred. It resembles this inner fragrance.

Remember that all that is available is also available inside. All the five senses that open outwardly can also open inwards. Man stands just on the threshold of both, just in the middle of both spaces -- the outer and the inner, the within and without. Man can turn either way. If you turn outwards you become a worldly man; if you turn inwards you become other-worldly, spiritual. You remain the same on the surface but your vision changes. Just as one can see outside, one can see inside and just as one can hear outside, one can hear 1/08/07

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the inside too. In the same way as there are smells outside, there are smells inside too. All the experience of the five senses are available from within.

Once you have known the experience from within then everything outside simply pales, its significance disappears. If you have seen the inner world of colour then all rainbows are very faint compared to that, because those colours are alive: they throb, they have a heartbeat to them. Once you have seen the inner light, the outer light looks almost like darkness in comparison. Once you have heard . the inner sound then all music that is created by man is just noise.

So start looking for the inner: see, hear, smell, taste, touch. Whenever you have time just close your eyes and try to see withinwards. Try to listen, try to smell, try to taste and try to touch; from all the five senses start searching inwards. It is a rich world inside, far richer, and once the inner richness is known, the outer world for the first time becomes illusory, dreamlike.

It is just as somebody wakes in the morning and sees the sun rising, and the sun of his dream simply pales, becomes insignificant, becomes illusory, just an hallucination. In the same way when one awakes to the inner, the outer becomes an illusion. Hence in the East we call it 'maya'. Maya means the illusion, the hallucination; it is not real.…

[A sannyasin says she would like to do the tantra and hypnotherapy groups. Osho suggests she do other groups in preparation first.]

Tantra should be like a climax, then much more happens out of it. Much more important than the group is the space in which you are when you participate. You can participate in a group which can take you far away, but if you are not ready to go far away nothing can be done. You may not participate in it, you may be there as a participant but the inner participation will be missing.

We have a thousand and one inhibitions. To be in a Tantra group, really and totally, one needs to shed all the inhibitions. One needs a very very clean unconscious, then Tantra can become one of the greatest experiences of life. Otherwise it will be at the most a kind of indulgence in sex and even that will not be very deep because those inhibitions will go on dragging you away.

So Tantra can either be just a licentiousness... because man is so repressed and one wants to go against that repression; it is too heavy. Licentiousness is just a reaction to repression. Once the repression is too much and you cannot bear it, the pendulum swings to the other extreme. That's what has happened in the West: two thousand years of Christian repression, two thousand years of stupid

morality, unscientific, unnatural, inhuman, has created the whole licentiousness in the modern mind. It is a revolt, but revolts which arise out of reaction are not very revolutionary. They remain tethered to the very same thing against which they are reacting. The puritan can become licentious, very easily, and the licentious person can become the puritan again very easily. The mind goes on moving, it swings.

So Tantra can either be just licentiousness or it can become a great love experience. If there is no inhibition, no repression, no attitude about sex -- good or bad -- if one is just primitive about it, pagan, uncivilized, unprejudiced for or against, then Tantra can become a great experience of love, or Tantra can become a great experience of prayer too.

If the unconscious is completely unburdened and one is like a child, neither seeking for sex nor seeking for love even -- one is not seeking for anything, one is simply empty, with no desire, with no motive, just open to whatsoever happens, thrilled by the unknown.… Because whenever you are seeking something you are seeking your past experience again in some way or other. The new cannot be sought, only the old can be sought. Modified, a little bit decorated, a little bit different, but it is always the same old that can be sought.

How can the mind think of the new? The new has not been known yet; the mind is always tethered to the past. So you have known some experiences of love, some experiences of sex, and you would like them to become a little deeper, more far-reaching, but still they are the old.

The third state of prayer is possible through Tantra when you are not seeking anything at all, when there is no desire, when there is a quality of desirelessness, unmotivated presence... just a presence, empty, not going anywhere, when there is no dimension to your consciousness, no direction to your consciousness.

Then Tantra takes you really far-out. No drug and no meditation can take you that far because Tantra works on the very substantial energy in you. The most profound energy is the sex energy and Tantra works on that.

When you think, you think only from the top layer of the head. When people are making love they remain almost always in the head. It is a head trip; their sex is cerebral; then it cannot go very deep. If you go a little deeper then the heart starts functioning: sex is no more so it becomes love. If you go a little 1/08/07

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deeper, to the very root of your being, to your very guts, to the very foundation, then Tantra becomes prayer.

So wait! A little work, and then when you are ready I will send you to Tantra and Hypnosis also. Good!

[A sannyasin asks about relationships, about being in the heart and then sexual desire arises; wanting to be total in relationship... ]

I understand. First, there are relationships. and relationships, and one should enjoy all kinds of relationships. Nothing is wrong: even the relationship that happens only in the head has its own beauty. The relationship that happens through the heart has its own beauty and the relationship that happens just as a sexual thing, that also has its own beauty.

You may be attracted to someone only sexually. Now you create a problem if you want to make it a love affair also. You create something artificial, you force, and then the problem arises; otherwise there is no problem. That relationship has to exist on that level; nothing is wrong in that level. And by total... you have a wrong concept of totality. You mean by totality that your thought, your feeling, your sex, should all be involved in it. That will not be possible right now. That will be possible only later on when you have lived a different kind of totality first.

When you have learned how to live in a relationship physically, how to live in a relationship psychologically, how to live in a relationship intellectually, when you have worked on all levels and each level has been total then the second kind of totality will become possible. Then a relationship is possible which becomes total on all three levels together, simultaneously.

But before that it is not possible. You are creating the problem. Don't ask too much, otherwise you will be miserable. Whatsoever is available, use it, go into it. And nothing is wrong, nothing is ever wrong except when you start asking for too much and your life energy is not ready for that jump. It is as if one goes

swimming: if you can swim only in shallow water then there is no need to go into the deep water right now.

It will be dangerous, you will not enjoy it; you will be constantly afraid. How can you enjoy it when you are afraid that death is possible if you go a little further?

First swim in the shallow water, learn swimming in the shallow water; once you have learned then go into the deeper water. Once you know how to swim it doesn't matter, the depth of the water doesn't matter, because swimming is possible anywhere.

This is your problem: you have not learned to be total on one level and you want all the levels to come together. These are three dimensions of love -- the genitals: the lowest but the most substantial; then the heart: not so low, higher, very much higher but more fragile naturally. The higher a thing becomes, the more fragile it becomes. The roots are the most strong thing in the tree and the flowers are the most fragile.

If a tree starts asking for the flowers without creating roots then the tree will be confused. That's how you are confused -- the tree first has to go deep into the ground, has to become rooted, has to find nourishment, water. When everything is available the tree starts growing; then there is no problem. Then leaves will come and foliage and branches and one day, flowers.

Still you can move a little higher, to intelligence. That too has its own beauty. Ordinarily when people say that they are related through the head, they don't mean what I mean when I say intelligence; that's why I am using the word 'intelligence'. There is a kind of relationship which is higher than the feeling. It is of intelligence, more fragile, very fragile. It can disappear any moment. It is almost like a whisper: you have to pay much attention, only then do you feel it. It is more like a friendship.

For example, you love me and somebody else loves me. You are full of my thoughts and he is full of my thoughts. Then a relationship grows between you two because of this affinity. You are meditating, somebody else is meditating. Your meditative energies meet and you are thrilled by each other's presence.

Or you love Beethoven and somebody else also loves Beethoven; there is a kind of rapport through music and you feel deeply in love with each other. Beethoven

becomes a bridge. Now this is not of the heart, this is not of the genitals. This is of intelligence, but this will be very fragile, as fragile as Beethoven's music.

First start from the lowest, because the lowest is the most substantial, it is your roots. So when you are in relationship with a person, just don't condemn yourself because you think 'This is just genital, this is just sexual.' It is beautiful. Grow in roots. Enjoy this relationship as deeply, as totally as possible, and again remember, by total I mean, in this dimension. I don't mean a totality of three dimensions altogether. That will come later on, that will come in its own time. Everything has its own time, its own season.

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related through the heart with another person and you may be related through your intelligence to somebody else. It may not all happen with one person in the beginning; there is no necessity. That's why I'm all for free love, otherwise love becomes crippled. You are interested in one person sexually and then he starts possessing you and says 'Now you cannot relate to anybody else.' This is poisonous. You are not interested in him through your heart so only two possibilities are left: either you be with him and let your heart die, let it suffocate, let it starve.… And you are not related at the third dimension of intelligence either.

It almost always happens that when you are sexually attracted to a person the person is more animal-like; that's why you are sexually attracted to him. It is very rare that this animal-like person will have some qualities like Buddha... very rare.

He may be just an animal -- alive, full of juice, but on the lowest level. He may give you great sexual delight but you should not ask anything more. You should not discuss Socrates with him, mm? he will hit your head! (laughter) You should not bring Beethoven records with you. He will throw them; he will say

'This is all nonsense! Let's make love!' He knows only one dimension.

And the other thing is also possible: you may be interested in a person intellectually, intelligently, mm?

He talks so beautifully, he stands and weaves theories so beautifully, he takes you into deeper realms of being and existence, but he may be fragile. He may not have any animality left. His whole animal may have become sublimated, transformed; you may not be attracted to him sexually. Hence I say that love should be free and people should be related in many kinds of relationships. The world does not allow it, that's why people are so miserable. You get hooked in one kind of relationship then your other two dimensions die, and because of that your soul is only partly alive.

My effort here is to make this opportunity available. I would like my sannyasins to be absolutely non-possessive. They should help each other to be related in as many ways as possible so that their whole being is fulfilled. Then one day that too is possible: when your whole being is fulfilled and you have lived all kinds of love and all kinds of relationship, and each relationship totally on its own level, then the higher kind of totality, the three dimensional totality, arises. When you are total that way you will be able to find a person who is also total that way. You can get only that which you deserve. More than that is not possible and more than that should not be possible.

So don't create unnecessary problems; these are created problems. Start looking into things and be whatsoever is practical Don't bring impractical and impossible ideals into the mind.

Listening to me can sometimes be very dangerous because I go on talking about impossible things, impossible at your level. I have to talk because only then can I drag you beyond your levels, pull you up.

But that creates trouble also. You start thinking 'Now this is the way to live: totally, be total, be spontaneous, be this and that.' Always listen to me and translate it at your level. Be practical.

Remember it, what I have said, but always see how much you can do at this moment; do only that. Keep the goal in your consciousness but don't start pulling that goal into your being right now. You will not be able to: you will be split that way, you will become crazy. Yes, even great ideals can create craziness so keep

your common sense intact. And start living. Whatsoever relationship happens, be total on that level and report to me after one month how you feel, mm? Good!

[A sannyasin says she does not feel anger but in groups she is told she has anger. How to tell if she is repressing when she doesn't feel it? Osho checks her energy.]

There is not anything like anger but there is something else that may have been thought by the group-leaders to be anger. It is not anger but something which can give the feeling of anger -- a kind of pride. You are a proud woman deep inside, very self-confident, assertive. That very feeling of pride and assertion, confidence, can give the idea to other people that you are carrying great repressed anger. But this is a totally different thing. One should be self-confident and one should be proud of oneself -- not against anybody, not in comparison to anybody but just because one is oneself. You have to be loving towards yourself and you have to be proud that you are yourself, that God has made you you. If a person is not proud about himself he will hate himself, he will be self- destructive, he will have a kind of inferiority complex.

Pride as ego is bad; pride as self-love is perfectly good. Pride in terms of being higher than others is wrong but pride as an expression of your being is perfectly okay. Trees are proud... See a peacock -- so proud! Or a snake, or a tiger... everything in existence is proud. It should be so because God has chosen you as an abode, but this pride should not be comparative: you should not think that you are higher than others; then it becomes aggression, assertion becomes aggression. Assertion is good, aggression is bad. Pride 1/08/07

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Pride is just natural, ego is illness, pathological, but they are very close and they can give the feeling of being the same. So they are not absolutely wrong, mm? -- they have felt something of that around you so they thought it is repressed anger. It is not repressed anger; you need not throw your anger. That will not help, it will simply exhaust you because it is not there. And don't create a problem.

Just remember this, that pride is not to become egotism, that assertion has not to become aggression.

These are perfectly good qualities, everybody should have them, but in a non- relative, non-comparative sense. As a joy in your whole being pride is good. You accept yourself, you love yourself, pride is good.

Nothing to be worried about!

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