WITH MEDITATION ADDED TO IT, SEX BECOMES A TANTRIC EXPERIENCE

THREE WOODCUTTERS came down to the town after a long four-month work period, during which they had not seen or heard a thing except trees and their axes. Within hours they were totally drunk and decided to visit the local whorehouse. The madam of the institution found herself in a fix, as she could only offer two girls and didn't want to lose her third customer. So she told one of the girls to put the inflatable tailor's dummy into one bed. While two of the woodcutters were escorted to the beds with the real girls, the most drunk of them was put to bed with the dummy. As the three met the next morning, they exchanged the reports of their experiences. When the turn to share his experience came for the one who had been in bed with the air-filled rubber woman, he said, "First it was really nice, but she was too quiet. Then, when I bit her nipple, she gave one big fart and flew out of the window."

Ritmo and Mastananda, you will not be able to see what you are doing. BE A LITTLE MORE MEDITATIVE AND DON'T BE IN SUCH A HURRY: that I told you and right away... It seems it was just an excuse. You believed that you were experimenting, YOU BELIEVED THAT YOU WERE DOING SOMETHING IN ORDER TO KNOW. People can believe all kinds of things -- BUT YOU CANNOT DECEIVE ME! People can go on rationalizing. You think you did it because I said sex is stupid? You would have done it anyway! Even if I had said that sex is very intelligent, then too you would have done it. If I had not said anything about sex, then too you would have done it.

Have a look at your mind. Try to understand how you go on rationalizing and deceiving yourself. AND YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I AM SAYING UNLESS YOU RISE A LITTLE HIGHER from the state of consciousness where you are right now. If you want to see more, you have to rise a little higher.

It is as if you are standing on the road and I am sitting on the treetop. I say to you, "A bullock cart is coming down the road." You say, "I don't see any bullock cart. There is no bullock cart." BUT I CAN SEE -- MY PERSPECTIVE IS GREATER BECAUSE I AM ON A HEIGHT. You will only see the bullock cart when it comes very close to you, and then after few yards it will disappear again. And I will say to you, "It has not disappeared, it is still there on the road." You will say, "It is no more there, it is gone."

THE HIGHER YOU RISE, THE MORE YOU CAN SEE. And when you reach the ultimate height, Buddhahood, you can see everything. Then there is no past and no future; then there is only present. And in that clarity, SEX IS THE MOST STUPID THING -- BECAUSE IT KEEPS YOU IN BONDAGE THE LONGEST.

I AM NOT CONDEMNING IT, I AM SIMPLY STATING A FACT. It is your bondage. It keeps you unconscious. It does not allow you to see what you are doing. YOU ARE POSSESSED BY IT.

Back in the early 1960's when France was fighting its last colonial war, a draft-dodger from Paris pretended to have poor eyesight during his physical at the army induction center. The army doctor didn't buy that, so he sent for a gorgeous young nurse and told her to take off her clothes. "Describe what you see, young man," the doctor asked. "All I see is a blur, doctor," the slacker replied. Said the military M.D., "Your eyes may not be as good as they should be, my lad, but your prick is pointing straight toward Algeria!"

That's why I call it STUPID: IT KEEPS YOU UNCONSCIOUS, IT KEEPS YOU IN A KIND OF POSSESSION. It is hormonal, it is chemical. It is not you. IT IS JUST YOUR BIOLOGY THAT GOES ON FORCING YOU TO DO CERTAIN THINGS. If you watch, you will be surprised: What you are doing? And why you are doing? If you watch you will be surprised. WHAT YOU ARE GAINING OUT OF IT? What you have gained up to now? And in your saner moments you know perfectly well what I am saying, you understand it. But those saner moments are very superficial -- they come and go -- and soon you are again back in the same trap.

Mastananda, go back again, do it right away, but BE WATCHFUL, BE MEDITATIVE. AND I WILL BE THERE, STANDING BY YOUR SIDE. And let us see what happens. Either you will not be able to do it at all, or you will find that it is a biological compulsion, it is an obsession, it is not you. Your consciousness will remain floating up. Deep down in the valley it will happen, but you will remain detached, unconcerned, cool. And that will give you the INSIGHT.

SEX BECOMES A TANTRIC EXPERIENCE when meditation is added to it.

OSHOWalking in Zen, Sitting in ZenCh #1: The Breath of the Soulam in Buddha Hall[part 2 of 2]