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#2664 - Thursday, December 7, 2006
- Editor: Jerry Katz
The Nondual Highlights
Rajneesh on nonduality, architecture, sex, and marriage.
from http://alexo-q.livejournal.com/
I call God the ultimate indulgence -- God is
the experience of ultimate intercourse. Within oneself duality
disappears, the duet comes to an end, nonduality has arisen. The
embrace is of nonduality, where the two disappear and only the
One remains. Such nonduality, such a union, can never be attained
through the outer man or outer woman; the two will always remain.
It is possible that you may for a moment forget the other, but
only for a moment, and then the other will reappear. Even in the
moments of intercourse you are you and your wife is your wife;
somewhere you meet, somewhere you touch, but the union does not
happen. So after every act of lovemaking you are left with a
bitter taste, as if something has failed -- as if you were about
to reach, but what you were reaching for disappeared. This is why
the desire for intercourse is re-aroused again and again.
But no intercourse will fulfill you, because no intercourse can
become samadhi; it only creates a hankering. The matter only
comes to an end when the meeting of inner man and inner woman
happens. Then all search outside is finished. Now there is no
other, the duality has disappeared, and you are unified.
Nonduality is an ultimate embrace, and such a person becomes like
the Shivalinga -- a full circle within. A man who has entered
self-communion, self-orgasm... such a person loses no energy.
Do you know that to lose energy sharp points are needed? The
electricity of your body can be dissipated through your fingers,
for example, but not through your head, because anything circular
provides no exit for your energy, no place through which it can
be dissipated. Energy can be discharged through the genitals; in
fact, the genitals are the special arrangement for losing energy.
You have to understand that the body has two parts: one is from
where the body takes energy in, the other is from where the body
lets energy out. All the receiving parts are situated in the
head; that is one end. This is why the head is round in shape; it
is designed to take energy in, and not to lose it. You take in
food through the mouth, air through the nose, light through the
eyes, and sound through the ears. These are the receiving parts,
receiving doors that allow things in but not out. At the other
end, at the lower end of the body, are the organs for excreting
and urinating, and here too are the genitals, which are also an
exit point. So those who know have never regarded semen to be any
more valuable than urine or excrements, and indeed it is so.
Through it you let your energy out. At this end the body expels
what it had collected. It wants to get rid of it, -- it is
excretion.
The head is round, it accumulates; the genital organ is pointed,
it dissipates. This is why nature has so arranged the genitals
that when a man is sexually aroused it becomes erect and pointed
-- because the more pointed, the faster will be the discharge of
energy. In the case of the Shivalinga, which is round, there is
no possibility of any energy dissipation. The energy can revolve
at its periphery, it can go on racing round and round, but it
cannot escape.
We have built round domes on the tops of temples so that the
mantras chanted and prayers sung inside the temples do not escape
but get echoed back onto the worshippers, showering on them and
creating a circuit, a circle. This is the speciality of the
temple and is not to be found in the mosque or the church. We
created the temple exactly like the head, to gather and shower
energy, so that anybody going under it gets suffused with energy,
gathers strength. When the meeting of your inner man and woman
happens, your head becomes like a temple.
If you understand rightly the architecture of the temple, you
will see that it is created in the shape of the human body. Your
body is rectangular; so is the temple. At the top of the temple
is the headlike dome. When the yogi sits in padmasana, the lotus
posture, he is exactly like a temple. It is this padmasana of the
yogi that is the secret of temple architecture; exactly like it
we have designed the temple, as a symbol, and just like this, in
the moment of the inner meeting you will become a temple.
So don't be afraid of being alone. In the first stage it is
possible you may ejaculate, but this is also nothing to be afraid
of. After all, your semen is also given by God; you offered it
back to him. Why be a miser? And don't hinder the process by
putting your fear in the way; no need to be uneasy about it. What
is yours anyway? If not today then tomorrow, this body will be
gone, and with it the semen. Now where are you going to take it?
It is interesting to note how the priests and monks tell us not
to store up wealth because we will only have to leave it behind
when we die, and yet they suggest that we accumulate our semen.
For what? This too you will have to leave here; it is part of the
body and you cannot take it with you -- you cannot take it
anywhere!
So even if ejaculation happens, don't be afraid, and don't feel
guilty about it, because the moment you feel guilty your
meditation will be blocked. The semen was given by God and he
took it! Thank him and move into your meditation. The
ejaculations will soon come to an end -- they only happen because
you have suppressed them forcibly. Once you have stopped
suppressing the ejaculation will vanish, and before long the
moment will come when you will meet your beloved within.
So whether it is sex or anger or whatever impulse, the meditator
has not to link it up with the other. This is the meaning of the
world: the other is necessary for my impulses to be expressed.
And the meaning of sannyas is: I alone am responsible for my
impulses. This becoming alone is the very meaning of sannyas. And
if you need the other for impulses, how are you ever going to
enter into sannyas? Nor is there any need to leave home and go to
the forest or to run away from your wife; all you need to do is
to cast off your dependency on the other for your impulses. You
alone become your own master. You can be just by yourself, the
other is not necessary for you to be. This does not mean that you
will not be able to love your wife any longer. You will certainly
be able to love her, but now your love will be the gift of a free
individual. It will have its own beauty, its own glory.
The love that you give now is given under obligation -- it is a
feature of your dependency. This is why lovers are always in
anger about each other. I know hundreds of couples, but I have
not seen a single couple where each lover is not in anger with
the other. There is a reason for this and it is only natural that
it is so. It is because on whomsoever we are dependent, that
person seems to be the master and we feel like a mere slave, --
and this is how they both feel, because both are dependent. There
is no master, both are slaves! Enslaved to a slave -- because
both depend on the other, and because of this dependency they
exploit each other.