Science is a specialization. You cannot be a scientist twenty-four hours a day.
Religion is not a specialization.
It is a way of life.
It is a way of breathing, it is a way of walking, it is a way of sitting, it is a way of sleeping.
Religion overwhelms all your life.
A religious man sits in a different way than a non-religious man.
A religious man talks in a different way than a non-religious man.
A religious man is always at ease, at home, relaxed.
A religious man knows no tensions, no anxieties.
Naturally all his functioning has a tremendous grace, a beauty. And because it is not a specialization it can spread all over his life -- it has to spread.
Once Gautam Buddha's chief disciple, Ananda, asked him, "Bhante, many times I have awakened at different hours in the night just to see, are you in any need? You were always asleep, you were never in any need. But a problem has arisen for me that when you go to sleep you continue the whole night to sleep in exactly the same posture: the same hand underneath your head functioning as a pillow, one leg upon the other leg, resting -- always on one side, never changing sides. This is strange."
Buddha said, "This is not strange. There is no need to move. When I was unconscious I also used to toss and turn -- that was the mental turmoil affecting the body. Now if I want to change my posture I can, but there is no inner necessity. And I don't want to, I love this posture."
Once you live consciously, every act starts taking on a different quality: the quality of relaxedness, restfulness. A religious man can be religious twenty-four hours a day. Yes, even in bed, even while making love to his wife he will be religious. His lovemaking will be of the same category as his prayer, his worship, his meditation.
You are at the stage of sex while you should be at the stage of superconsciousness. And the route is simple: sex just has to be part of your religious life, it has to be something sacred.
Sex has to be something not obscene, not pornographic, not condemned, not repressed but immensely respected, because we are born out of it.
It is our very life source.
And to condemn the life source is to condemn everything.
Sex has to be raised higher and higher to its ultimate peak. And that ultimate peak is samadhi, superconsciousness.
Taoism is teaching transformation of sex.
It is so clear. But no, the people are not interested in transformation of sex, they are interested in condemning sex. It is a good excuse.
It is so strange and unbelievable that Hindus have worshiped one great sexologist, the first in the world, Maharishi Vatsyayana, who has written a book KAMASUTRAS, which means "Aphorisms on sex." It is the first obscene and pornographic book, with ugly drawings -- it is pictorial; photography was not in existence; otherwise it would have been like PLAYBOY. Sketches ... and he propounds eighty-four postures for intercourse.
Now many idiots must have been trying them and wasting their whole life -- eighty-four postures! And a few are such that it is better if you join the gym and do some gymnastics rather than doing those postures. You will break your neck or your wife's neck. You will not believe that there is a posture -- the woman is standing on her head and the man is making love to her. And this man, Vatsyayana, is respected in India as a maharishi, as a great seer. Because he was supporting Hindu ideology, Hindus -- it was a mutual understanding -- respected him.
Nobody is concerned with human growth. Everybody is concerned that man should remain retarded.
The more retarded humanity is, the more it is in the hands of the politicians, in the hands of the priests, in the hands of all kinds of vested interests. Who is interested in transforming man? They want you to be completely blind and deaf. They want you to be just a robot: efficient, not creating any trouble -- no strike, no protest, no revolution, no rebellion -- just a robot who is always ready to say "Yes, sir."
Religion is not a specialization.
It is a way of life.
It is a way of breathing, it is a way of walking, it is a way of sitting, it is a way of sleeping.
Religion overwhelms all your life.
A religious man sits in a different way than a non-religious man.
A religious man talks in a different way than a non-religious man.
A religious man is always at ease, at home, relaxed.
A religious man knows no tensions, no anxieties.
Naturally all his functioning has a tremendous grace, a beauty. And because it is not a specialization it can spread all over his life -- it has to spread.
Once Gautam Buddha's chief disciple, Ananda, asked him, "Bhante, many times I have awakened at different hours in the night just to see, are you in any need? You were always asleep, you were never in any need. But a problem has arisen for me that when you go to sleep you continue the whole night to sleep in exactly the same posture: the same hand underneath your head functioning as a pillow, one leg upon the other leg, resting -- always on one side, never changing sides. This is strange."
Buddha said, "This is not strange. There is no need to move. When I was unconscious I also used to toss and turn -- that was the mental turmoil affecting the body. Now if I want to change my posture I can, but there is no inner necessity. And I don't want to, I love this posture."
Once you live consciously, every act starts taking on a different quality: the quality of relaxedness, restfulness. A religious man can be religious twenty-four hours a day. Yes, even in bed, even while making love to his wife he will be religious. His lovemaking will be of the same category as his prayer, his worship, his meditation.
You are at the stage of sex while you should be at the stage of superconsciousness. And the route is simple: sex just has to be part of your religious life, it has to be something sacred.
Sex has to be something not obscene, not pornographic, not condemned, not repressed but immensely respected, because we are born out of it.
It is our very life source.
And to condemn the life source is to condemn everything.
Sex has to be raised higher and higher to its ultimate peak. And that ultimate peak is samadhi, superconsciousness.
Taoism is teaching transformation of sex.
It is so clear. But no, the people are not interested in transformation of sex, they are interested in condemning sex. It is a good excuse.
It is so strange and unbelievable that Hindus have worshiped one great sexologist, the first in the world, Maharishi Vatsyayana, who has written a book KAMASUTRAS, which means "Aphorisms on sex." It is the first obscene and pornographic book, with ugly drawings -- it is pictorial; photography was not in existence; otherwise it would have been like PLAYBOY. Sketches ... and he propounds eighty-four postures for intercourse.
Now many idiots must have been trying them and wasting their whole life -- eighty-four postures! And a few are such that it is better if you join the gym and do some gymnastics rather than doing those postures. You will break your neck or your wife's neck. You will not believe that there is a posture -- the woman is standing on her head and the man is making love to her. And this man, Vatsyayana, is respected in India as a maharishi, as a great seer. Because he was supporting Hindu ideology, Hindus -- it was a mutual understanding -- respected him.
Nobody is concerned with human growth. Everybody is concerned that man should remain retarded.
The more retarded humanity is, the more it is in the hands of the politicians, in the hands of the priests, in the hands of all kinds of vested interests. Who is interested in transforming man? They want you to be completely blind and deaf. They want you to be just a robot: efficient, not creating any trouble -- no strike, no protest, no revolution, no rebellion -- just a robot who is always ready to say "Yes, sir."
hans-wolfgang - am Dienstag, 31. August 2004, 02:13
