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"I am not against sex, and I am not saying
drop sex. I am just saying understand it, meditate over it – don't just go on making love in an unconscious way – and
that will become your greatest meditation.
"Be more
conscious, alert, aware and see what is actually happening.
Is this moment of bliss coming through sex or because there
is no sex any more for a few moments and the desire has
disappeared? For a few hours after sex you don't think about
sex, hence the peace, the calm, the quiet. Again the desire
will come and again the desire will disturb; again there
will be turmoil and the lake will have ripples, waves.
"If one meditates on one's sexuality, one starts
understanding great secrets of life; they are hidden there.
Sex is holding the very key. It is not only the key to
reproduce children, it is also the key to recreate yourself
again. It is not only reproduction, it is really recreation.
"In English the word 'recreation' has lost its original
meaning. Now 'recreation' means enjoying a holiday, enjoying
fun, playing around. But in fact, whenever you are playing
and you are on a holiday, something is created in you – it
is actually recreation, it is not just fun. Something that
dies in work and in the day-to-day world, is born again. And
sex has become the most recreational act of people's lives.
That is their recreation. But on a higher plane it is really
recreation, it is not just fun. It holds great secrets in
it, and the first secret is – if you meditate you will see
it – that joy comes because sex disappears. And whenever you
are in that moment of joy, time also disappears – if you
meditate on it – the mind also disappears. And there are the
qualities of meditation.
"My own observation is that the first glimpse of meditation
in the world must have come through sex; there is no other
way. Meditation must have entered into life through sex,
because this is the most meditative phenomenon – if you
understand it, if you go deep into it, if you just don't use
it like a drug. Then slowly slowly as more understanding
grows, the more the hankering disappears, and one day comes
a great freedom when sex no more haunts you. Then one is
quiet, silent, utterly oneself. The need for the other has
disappeared. One can still make love if one chooses to, but
there is no need.
"Then it will be kind of sharing."
Osho, Hallelujah!
(This title is no longer available at Osho's request)
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