OSHOThis has been my observation: PEOPLE WHO ARE SEXUALLY REPRESSED BECOME UNINTELLIGENT. ONLY VERY, VERY SEXUALLY ALIVE PEOPLE ARE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. The idea that sex is sin must have damaged intelligence very badly. When you are really flowing and your sexuality has no fight and conflict with you, when you cooperate with it, your mind will function at its optimum. You will be intelligent, alert, alive. The body has to be befriended, says Tantra.
DO YOU EVER TOUCH YOUR OWN BODY? Do you ever feel your own body, or do you remain as if you were encased in a dead thing? That's what is happening. People are almost frozen; they are carrying the body like a casket.
It is heavy, it obstructs; it does not help you to communicate with reality. IF YOU ALLOW THE ELECTRICITY OF THE BODY TO FLOW, to move from the toe to the head, if you allow total freedom for its energy -- the bio-energy -- YOU WILL BECOME A RIVER, and you will not feel the body at all. YOU WILL FEEL ALMOST BODILESS.
NOT FIGHTING WITH THE BODY, YOU BECOME BODILESS. Fighting with the body, the body becomes a burden. And carrying your body as a burden you can never arrive to godliness. The body has to become weightless, so that you almost start walking above the earth -- that is the tantric way to walk. You are so weightless that there is no gravitation; you can simply fly. But that comes out of great acceptance.
IT IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT YOUR BODY. You condemn it; you always find faults with it. You never appreciate, you never love it, and then you want a miracle: that somebody will come and love your body. If you yourself cannot love it, then how are you going to find somebody else to love your body?
If you yourself cannot love it, nobody is going to love your body, because your vibe will keep people repelled. YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH A PERSON WHO LOVES HIMSELF, NEVER OTHERWISE. The first love has to be toward oneself -- only from that center can other kinds of love arise.
YOU DON'T LOVE YOUR BODY -- YOU HIDE IT IN THOUSAND AND ONE WAYS. You hide your body's smell, you hide your body in clothes, you hide your body in ornamentation. You try to create some beauty that you continuously feel you are missing, and in that very effort you become artificial.
THE MOMENT YOU ACCEPT YOURSELF, YOU BECOME BEAUTIFUL. When you are delighted with your own body, you will delight others also. Many people will fall in love with you, because you yourself are in love with yourself.
Now you are angry with yourself: you know that you are ugly, you know that you are repulsive, horrible. This idea will repel people. This idea will not help them to fall in love with you; it will keep them away. Even if they were coming closer to you, the moment they will feel your vibration, they will move away.
TANTRA TEACHES THE FIRST THING: BE LOVING TOWARDS YOUR BODY, befriend your body, revere your body, respect your body, take care of your body -- it is a gift. Treat it well and it will reveal great mysteries to you. All growth depends on how you are related to your body.
OSHO
The Tantra Vision
Vol 2, Ch #7: Intelligence is Meditation
am in Buddha Hall
