Love: a natural type of Meditation

OSHO,
CHow can the human phenomenon of falling in love be transformed by people into meditation?

This is the easiest way. In human life, love is the closest phenomenon to meditation. The moment you fall in love with someone, what really happens? What emanates between those two who have fallen in love with each other? They abandon their egos, at least among themselves; they abandon their hypocrisies, their masks. They want to be together, practically a soul within two bodies. This is the desire for love.

And this is a beautiful time to make it a meditation. Only that nobody ever told them that. In fact, just the opposite was said to them: that love is contrary to meditation, in such a way that people in love can never become meditators.

The very people who made celibacy spiritual, made love unspiritual, something dirty, condemned. But for me things are totally different. Love helps you to relax, which is part of meditation; love helps you to be jovial, which is part of meditation; and at least for a few moments, love helps you to be silent, which is the essential part of meditation. And finally, if you achieve an orgasmic experience while making love, it will give you a glimpse of what meditation is, but it is millions of times more than that.

So, for me, love is a basic experience that can help you become a meditator. The old religions avoid it, and they avoid it for a certain reason. If people can transform their love into meditation, then priests, churches and synagogues will no longer be needed, then people will be totally free; no spiritual leadership is needed. And there are millions of priests around the world, as parasites of humanity. And of course they will give you wrong ideas against love, and they will give you meditation ideas, but because you don't have the basic experience ...

Love is just like when you go into a pool; step by step you enter the deepest waters. The pool floor is divided into two parts: one for those who cannot swim, in such a way that the water stays up to the neck, and the second part for those who can swim.

But those who wish to learn to swim must learn in the first part, which is not for swimmers. They need to learn there. Once they have learned, then they will slowly summon up courage and enter the deeper waters, for for a swimmer it doesn't matter how deep the water is; the swimmer is always on the surface. The water can be ten meters deep, fifty meters deep or ten kilometers deep; it makes no difference to the swimmer; it makes a difference only for the non-swimmer. Beyond five feet, everything is death. But the pool is one - shallow, deep - it is one. And the dividing line is just a line until you learn to swim.

For me, love and meditation are just like that. Love is the shallow space in a pool for those who cannot meditate. But this is the place to learn meditation. And it is the same pool, the same water, the same type of phenomenon. You are simply unable to go deeper, as they have made you afraid to even enter it. The shallow end was condemned, and without knowing how to swim, he was told to jump in the deepest part.

So, they disturbed your love life by condemnation and disturbed your meditative life by pure strategy: because you don't know how to swim, you can't go that deep. And you have no experience of silence, of peace, of pure joy, a little ecstasy, something orgasmic - these things will give you evidence that meditation is not a myth. You have tasted it a little; it's the same energy field, and you just need to go deeper into it.

What really happens when a couple moves into the realm of orgasmic experience? What really happens? Each point needs to be understood. The time stops; for a moment the pendulum does not move, and that one moment seems to be practically eternity. The two people are no longer two - for a moment. They merged into each other; there is no thought in the mind, for a moment; it is all empty and silent, and these are the things that must be deepened in meditation.

And once you have tasted them, you will be surprised that it does not depend on the other person. Something happens inside you, something happens inside the other person, but it is not dependent. If you can sit silently, if by watching your thoughts you can manage to bring a break, a stop, suddenly you will find that time has stopped again. And now it is in your hands, not in the hands of biology. You can keep that time as long as you like, and once you know the secret key ...

The key is: no thought, no ego, no time - you simply are.

That's why I was never against love. I was very condemned for this, of course, as I was cutting the very roots of the business of all religions.

All religions are against me. Their profession depends on the condemnation of love and the praise of meditation. They know that you cannot achieve meditation, and now they know that your love is condemned, it is a sin. You will never experience an orgasmic phenomenon, so meditation will remain just a philosophy and your life will remain loveless, angry, full of spite, ready to explode at any excuse, for where will your energy go?

It could have become peace, silence, joy, bliss. You didn't allow it to become that. This dammed energy turns into poison. That is why everyone is irritable, bored, worried and tense. The simple reason is that they have lost the natural source of relaxation.

No animal seems irritated, annoyed, angry, as they do not understand the language that the priests speak. They never heard that celibacy is spiritual. Of course, they cannot achieve meditation, but they are much better than those human beings who could have reached meditative heights, but who have lost even the simple biological experience of orgasm.

These are simply indications of your possibilities, your potentials. And it is easier to experiment with something natural in the beginning, and then try something that is supernatural, which belongs to the higher nature.

And once you know how to be silent, how to be without thoughts, how to be in a state of no-time, no-mind, you experience immense orgasmic joy, which has nothing to do with sex; she has immense purity and innocence. A person who has attained this purity and innocence has no need for sex. For her, sex is no longer a psychological problem, but there is also no prohibition. She can also enjoy sex, and she will enjoy it more than anyone, as her orgasm will immediately become meditative.

Having experienced meditative orgasm - a much larger phenomenon - your sexual orgasm will immediately trigger a greater orgasm. She can play with sex; there is no harm in that. There is no need, but there is also no prohibition. It depends on her.

Meditative orgasm absorbs your sexual energy, as you have no other energy left. All of your energy is sexual energy, and this vast burst of joy simply absorbs all of your energy. So you don't have to become a pervert, you don't have to make any effort to remain celibate. It's your choice.

If you want to play the old games once in a while, that's perfectly fine. In fact, maybe having sex from time to time should be part of every enlightened person's life, as that would change everyone's attitude towards sex.

Without it, it is very difficult to change. In this way, it can be seen that even an enlightened person can enjoy sex. There is nothing sinful about it, and it will bridge the enlightened person with the unenlightened one on a bridge. At least at one point, they both experience the same thing. And the enlightened one can lead to the unenlightened one for bigger orgasms. Start with this little one, but don't stop there.

Love is a natural type of meditation, and meditation is a supernatural type of love.

OSHO - The Last Testament - Vol.