Sex matters to us all. The Osho approach to sex begins with an understanding
of how important love is in our lives, while at the same time acknowledges that the journey into love cannot exclude our innate biological energies. With this perspective, it becomes clear that the tendency for religions, and for society in general, to associate sex with sin and morality has been a great misfortune.
WHAT IS LOVE?
To live it and know it is very easy, but to put it in words is difficult. It is like asking a fish, “What is the sea?” The fish will say, “This is the sea. It is all around, all over.”
In the life of humans too, all that is good, all that is beautiful, and all that is true can only be lived, can only be known.
If we search deep within man, we will find that no other word used by him is more false than ‘love’. And the most unfortunate thing is that he thinks that those who have actually falsified love, who have blocked all the streams of love, are the originators of it.
In this there is no basic difference between East and West, between India and America. The river of love has not yet manifested in humans. And we blame man for this, or we blame it on the mind.
LOVE IS WITHIN EVERY HUMAN BEING
It does not have to be brought in from somewhere. It is not something that has to be searched from somewhere. It is not something that has to be searched for somewhere. It is there. It is the very longing of life within everybody. It is the very fragance of life within everybody.
But it is trapped by high walls on all sides and is unable to manifest itself. All around it there are rocks, and the stream cannot flow.
A sculptor was working on a rock. A visitor who had come to see how a statue is made saw no sign of a statue, but only a stone being cut here and there by a chisel and hammer. “What are you doing?” the visitor asked. “Are you not going to make a statue?” I have come to see a statue being made, but I only see you chipping a stone.”
The artist said, “The statue is already hidden inside. There is no need to make it. Somehow, the useless mass of stone that is around it has to be separated from it, and then the statue will manifest itself. A statue is not made, it is only discovered. It is uncovered; it is brought to light.
Love is hidden inside human beings; it only needs to be released. The question is not how to produce it, but only how to uncover it.
WHAT IS THE HINDRANCE? WHAT IS THE DIFFICULTY? WHERE IS THE BARRIER?
Every person would be filled with love if no barriers of wrong culture and conditionings were imposed. It is an inevitability, no one can avoid love. Love is our intrinsic nature.
The Ganges flows from the Himalayas. It is natural for it to flow; it is alive, it has water, it will flow, and it will find the ocean. It will not ask a policeman or a priest for directions to the ocean. Have you ever seen a river standing at a crossroads asking a policeman where the ocean is?
But suppose dams are created in her way. Suppose high walls are constructed all around the river. What then? A river overcomes and breaks through natural barriers, but if barriers of human engineering are created, then it is possible she may not reach the ocean.
In nature, there is a fundamental unity, a harmony. The natural obstructions, the apparent obstructions seen in nature, are perhaps challenges to arouse energy; they serve as provocations to invoke what’s latent in the being.
The basic obstructions are man-made, are created by humans. Otherwise the river of love is meant to flow and reach the ocean of life.
SEX IS THE STARTING POINT OF ALL JOURNEYS TO LOVE
What are the man-made obstacles that we have contrived?
The first thing is that up till now, all of human culture has been against sex, against passion. This opposition, this negation has shattered and destroyed the possibility of the birth of love in humans.
The simple truth is that sex is the starting point of all journeys to love. The evolution of love is nothing but sex energy transformed.
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