Sex, Love, Prayer and Meditation

Sex is a meeting of two bodies – the most superficial meeting. Love is the meeting of minds – deeper than sex, but yet not very deep. Prayer is the meeting of beings, but still, two remain two. Meditation is the ultimate meeting – the two disappear. Only one remains.

People come to me, and they say, “We are in love.” And if I insist, “Really, are you in love?” they shrug their shoulders and say, “Well, we think we are in love.” Now feeling is not direct, it comes through the head, and when it comes through the head it is confused. It is not bubbling from the heart…

Something very deep has happened to man; a wound, an accident, and he has lost touch of feelings. If you talk to trees, to birds, to animals, long enough and you don't feel foolish – a tremendous energy of feeling will be released in you. You will become sensitive to pain and pleasure. That's how humanity has stopped the functioning of feeling: because when you become sensitive to pleasure, you also become sensitive to pain. The happier you can feel, the more unhappy also you can feel. The fear that one can become very unhappy has closed you, has helped the human mind to create barriers so that you cannot feel.

But try. First try with human beings – just sit silently with your own child and allow feeling. Don't bring the mind in. Sit with your wife, or with your friend, or your husband, holding hands together…

In the beginning it will be difficult, but by and by you will have a different mechanism functioning within you, you will start feeling…

Through the body you can relate to existence. You can go to the sea and enjoy swimming in it, but just become the body. Lie down on the sand and let the body feel the sand, the coolness, the texture.

But if you feel you are a heart-oriented person then prayer will be needed. Talk to the birds, try to have a communion. Watch! Just wait, sit silently with a deep prayer that they should come to you, and they will start coming by and by. By and by they will be sitting on your shoulders.

Accept them. Talk to trees, to rocks, but let it be a heart talk, emotional. Cry and weep and laugh. Tears can be more prayerful than words, and laughter can be more prayerful than words, because they come deep down from the heart. No need to verbalize – just feel. Embrace the tree and feel as if you are becoming one with it. And soon you will feel that the sap is not running only in the tree, it has started to run in you. And your heart is not beating only in you; deep down in the tree there is a response. One has to do it to feel it.

But if you feel that you are the third type, then meditation is for you. Then you will have to sit like Buddha, silently, just sitting doing nothing. Sitting so deeply that even thinking looks like doing. And you drop it. For a few days the thoughts will continue, but if you go on sitting, just watching them without any judgment for or against, they stop visiting you. They stop by and by, gaps come, intervals happen. In those intervals you will have glimpses of your being. Those glimpses can be had from the body, they can be had from the heart, they can be had from the head. All the possibilities are there because your being is in all the three and yet beyond three.

Courtesy: Osho International Foundation/www.osho.com

Discovering purpose in your work: Bhagavad Gita's teachings from Verse 9 of Chapter 3