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ENLIGHTENMENT: the beatitude that is characterized
by the extinction of Desire and suffering and Individual consciousness.
Sex/Sexuality
Sex
Sex is so significant because it is the source
of all life. It is so significant that if you repress it you will repress many other things as well. For example, the person
who is sexually repressed will become uncreative, because creativity itself is a kind of sexual activity.
In my observation,
if a person is totally creative he will transcend sex without repressing it, because his own energy will become creative.
The very need for sex will disappear. A far higher bliss will be happening to him and the lower is bound to disappear when
you have the higher. A real poet, while producing, creating, composing, forgets all about sex. A real sculptor absorbed in
his work forgets all about sex. Even if a naked woman passes by he will not look at her, his concentration is so total. A
real dancer disappears in his dance. His ego, his sex drive, everything is dissolved into his dance.
But if sex is repressed,
then just the contrary will be the result: your creativity will be repressed, and the implications of repressed creativity
are very great, multi-dimensional ... If your creativity is repressed, all your scientific endeavour will disappear too. But
if your sex life is flowing joyously, you will have tremendous interest in everything you are doing ...
According to me,
sex is the seed. If it is allowed natural growth, respected, valued, then a transformation happens, a metamorphosis. Sex starts
growing foliage of art, music, poetry, dance, and thousand other creative dimensions. Sex is only a seed, or the roots, but
if supported, nourished, watered, taken care of, then many branches grow, with thick foliage, many green leaves moving in
all directions, dancing in the wind, in the rain, in the sun ... This is the world of art, the world of aesthetics. And if
you allow the world of aesthetics to reach its highest peak, then flowers will bloom.
Sexuality
Sexuality is a very great thing. By sexuality
I mean whenever your body is alive, sensuous, throbbing, pulsating - then you are in a sexual state. It may not have anything
to do with a genital experience. The genital is only one very, very tiny expression of the sexual. For example, when you are
dancing you are sexual, the energy is sexual energy, but it is not genital. You may not be thinking about sex, you may have
completely forgotten about sex, but in fact when you are involved in any deep participation with your total body, it is sexual,
it is sexuality.
So when I use the word `sexual' I mean this experience of totality By and by sexuality has become confined
to the genitals; it has become local, it is no longer total. This is ugly because the most it can give you is relief; it can
never give you orgasm. Ejaculation is not orgasm, not all ejaculations are orgasmic and not every orgasm is a peak experience.
Ejaculation is genital, orgasm is sexual and a peak experience is spiritual.
When sexuality is confined to the genitals
you can only have relief; you simply lose energy, you don't gain anything. It is just like the relief that comes out of a
good sneeze, no more than that. It is not an orgasm because your total body does not pulsate. You are not in a dance, you
are not participating with your whole being, it is not holy. It is very partial and the partial can never be orgasmic because
orgasm is possible only when the total organism is involved. When you pulsate from your toe to your head, when every fibre
of your being pulsates, when all the cells of your body dance, when there is a great orchestra inside you, that is orgasm.
But not every orgasm is a peak experience. When you are pulsating totally inside, it is an orgasm. When your totality participates
with the totality of existence, it is a peak experience. And people are focused on ejaculation, they have forgotten orgasm
and they have completely forgotten the peak experience. They don't know what it is. And because they cannot attain the higher,
they are confined to the lower.
When you can attain the higher, when you can attain the better, naturally the lower starts
disappearing of its own accord. So, sex is transformed, but not sexuality. As sex disappears you will become more sexual.
Where will sex go? It will become your sexuality. You will become more sensuous. You will live with more intensity, with
more flame; you will live like a great wave. These tiny waves will disappear. You will become a storm, you will become a great
wind that can shake the trees and the mountains. You will be a tide, a flood. Your candle will burn at both ends together,
simultaneously.
And in that moment you will have a taste of eternity.
Thank you 4 your visit
John
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