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> If you repress sex you will become angry; the whole energy that
> was becoming sex will become anger. And it is better to be sexual than to be
> angry. In sex at least there is something of love; in anger there is only
> pure violence and nothing else. If sex is repressed, the person becomes
> violent - either to others he will be violent, or to himself These are the
> two possibilities: either he will become a sadist and will torture others,
> or he will become a masochist and will torture himself. But torture he will.
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> Do you know, down the ages, the soldiers have not been allowed to have
> sexual relationships? Why? Because if soldiers are allowed to have sexual
> relationships they don't gather enough anger in them, enough violence in
> them. Their sex becomes a release, they become soft, and a soft person
> cannot fight. Starve the soldier of sex and he is bound to fight better. In
> fact, his violence will be a substitute for his sexuality....
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> I pulled back my sexual longings,
> and now I discover that I'm angry a lot. (Kabir)
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> A great observer he is, a very minute observer. This is what awareness
> is. He is watching: he represses his sexual desire and watches - "Now what
> is happening inside?" Soon he finds that he becomes more angry - for no
> reason at all, just angry, irritated, ready to fight with anybody, any
> excuse will do.
>
> And remember, sex can be transformed because it is a natural energy;
> anger is not so natural, one step removed from nature. Now it will be
> difficult to change anger. First anger will have to be changed into sex,
> only then can anything be done - that's what my work here is. And that's
> what I am being condemned for all over the world.
>
> I am trying to change your anger into sex - first that has to be done.
> That is the way of inner change. First all your perversions have to
> disappear, and you have to become a natural human being. You have to become
> a natural animal, to be exact. And then only can you become divine. The
> animal can be transformed into the divine, but your animal is also very
> perverted, your animal is not sane - your animal has become insane. First
> the insanity has to be transformed, changed. Change anger!
>
> I gave up rage, and now I notice
> that I am greedy all day.
>
> So he repressed his anger - that's what one will logically do. You
> repress sex, anger bubbles up; you repress anger. But he is a close
> observer, a very minute observer. He says: The moment I repressed my anger I
> became greedy.
>
> This too is proved: if you watch human history you will find a
> thousand and one proofs for it. For example, in India Mahavira taught
> non-violence, and the result has been that all the followers of Mahavira
> became the most greedy people in the world - they are the Jews of India. The
> Jainas are the Jews of India. Why did they become so greedy?
>
> Mahavira taught them to be non-violent. Obviously, they started
> repressing anger; that is the only way that seems possible to the stupid
> mind: Repress anger! Don't be violent. And they tried really hard; in every
> possible way they tried not to be violent. They even stopped agriculture
> because it is a kind of violence: you will have to pull the plants and cut
> the crop, and that is violence because plants have life. So Jainas stopped
> agriculture completely.
>
> Now, they cannot go to the army, they cannot be kshatriyas - they
> cannot become warriors - because of their ideology of non-violence, and they
> cannot even be agriculturalists, gardeners; that is impossible. They would
> not like to become sudras - the untouchables - who clean the roads, the
> sweepers and the cobblers, because that is too humiliating. And brahmins won
> 't allow them to function as brahmins - brahmins are very jealous about
> that. They have been in power for centuries and they don't allow anybody:
> nobody can become a brahmin; one has to be a brahmin only by birth. You may
> become a great, learned man - that doesn't matter - but you can't be a
> Brahmin. There is no way of becoming a brahmin; you have to be born one
> only. You have to be very careful when you choose your parents; that is the
> only opportunity to become a brahmin.
>
> So Jainas could not be brahmins, would not like to become sudras were
> not able to become warriors - then what was left for them? Only business -
> they became business people. And all their repressed anger became their
> greed. They became great money-maniacs. Their number is very small; in India
> their number is so small, not more than thirty lakhs. In a country of sixty
> crores thirty lakhs is nothing. But they possess more money than anybody
> else. You will not find a Jaina beggar anywhere; they are all rich people.
>
> Mahavira wanted them to be non-violent, and what really happened was
> totally different: they became greedy. Repress your anger and you will be
> greedy....
>
> I worked hard at dissolving the greed,
> and now I am proud of myself.
>
> So he repressed his greed and the ultimate result is: he has become a
> great egoist; he finds himself being very proud. "Look! I have repressed
> sex, repressed anger, repressed greed - I have done this, I have done that.
> I have done impossible things!" Now a great 'I' arises, the ego becomes
> strengthened.
>
> That's why you will find the most crystallized egos in the monks and
> the nuns. You will not find such crystallized egos anywhere else. The more a
> person renounces, the more he represses, the more egoistic he becomes.
> Indians are very egoistic and the reason? - they have all tried in some way
> or other to be religious. And the only way seems to be repression - and
> repression brings ego.
>
> A non-repressed person becomes a non-egoist; he cannot carry the ego.
> There is no prop to support it. He becomes humble, he becomes simple, he
> becomes ordinary, he has no claim - he knows he is nothing. This whole
> process that Kabir is describing is beautiful.
>
> Repression is not the way: transformation is the way. Don't repress
> anything. If sexuality is there, don't repress it otherwise you will create
> a new complexity - which will be more difficult to tackle. And if you
> repress anger, greed is even more difficult then, and if you repress greed,
> arises ego, pride, which is the most difficult thing to drop.
>
> Move back: from pride to greed, from greed to anger, from anger to
> sex. And if you can come to the natural, spontaneous sexuality, things will
> be very simple. Things will be so simple that you cannot imagine. Then you
> energy is natural, and natural energy creates no hindrance in
> transformation. Hence I say: from sex to superconsciousness. Not from anger,
> not from greed, not from ego, but from sex to superconsciousness.
>
> The transformation can happen only if first you accept your natural
> being. Whatsoever is natural is good. Yes, more is possible, but the more
> will be possible only if you accept your nature with totality - if you
> welcome it, if you have no guilt about it. To be guilty, to feel guilty, is
> to be irreligious. In the past you have been told just the opposite: Feel
> guilty and you are religious. I say to you: Feel guilty and you will never
> be religious. Drop all guilt!
>
> You are whatsoever God has made you. You are whatsoever existence has
> made you. Sex is not your creation: it is God's gift. Something tremendously
> valuable is hidden in it - it is just a shell of your samadhi. If the seed
> is broken, the shell is broken, the flower will bloom - but not by
> repression. You will have to learn inner gardening, you will have to become
> a gardener, you will have to learn how to use dirty fertilizers, manure, and
> transform manure into roses.
>
> Religion is the most delicate art.
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> Osho: The Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty, #13
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